Ask a YCW: Sexual Harassment Edition
Dear Askie, I’ve been really shocked and saddened lately by so many of my female colleagues, friends, and parishioners posting #metoo online with their stories of sexual abuse and harassment. […]
“I Believe the Women”
With great understanding, Wisdom is calling out as she stands at the crossroads and on every hill. She stands by the city gate where everyone enters the city, and she […]
Young Clergy Women Tell All: The Real Reasons We Became Pastors
There are lots of reasons to go into ministry: a feeling or experience of divine call, for instance. Or a deep desire to preach the gospel, equip the saints for […]
Leadership Metaphors: Garden and Machine
I was only about a month into my first call as solo pastor of a small Presbyterian congregation when a new class of elders rolled onto the Session, which is […]
“Find Yourself a Group of Friends…”
Find yourself a group of friends… …who will remind you to take care of yourself. Just last night I went to set my home alarm before going to bed, […]
Wear the Red Dress
I will wear red. I will wear the red dress, even though you will talk behind your hands to wonder out loud – what is she wearing why is she […]
Shared Leadership: Lessons from YCWI
After serving three years as a co-chair of YCWI, I am beginning my third month as “just a regular board member.” I am loving that I get to spend my […]
Striving for Justice and Peace Among All People: Advocacy, Activism, and the Baptismal Covenant
During Baptisms, Easter and other special occasions in The Episcopal Church, churchgoers are asked eight questions known as The Baptismal Covenant. It begins as a statement of faith laid out […]
May I Take Your Order?
Sometimes we do not choose when our collars come off; the choice is made for us. That’s how it happened for me. I was in a call I had loved […]
Ask a YCW: Disaster Edition
Dear Askie, I am so devastated by the news of so many recent disasters—Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and so many others. Watching it on the news just breaks my heart. […]
