Ask a YCW- Halloween Edition
Dear Ask a YCW, I found this great sexy pope costume online. Is it ok for me to wear it to the Halloween Party at my church tonight? Party Pastrix […]
Newness of Life: How I Gave Up the Waders and Learned to Love the Water
Easter morning. The sanctuary is full. The trumpet fanfare happens right on cue and the lilies – in addition to making my nose itch – are beautiful. Streamers hang from […]
Sinners in the Hands of a Nursing God
Outwardly, I’m sure it looked as if I was listening intently as the assisting minister read from Isaiah. Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for […]
A Pastor’s Scope for Imagination
When I was growing up, I would travel to Minnesota each year to visit my maternal grandparents. My grandmother had very strict parameters as to what content she would watch […]
Me Too
It started appearing on the Sunday afternoon in the week after the story about Harvey Weinstein broke. A simple Facebook post that caught me off guard and made me suddenly […]
The Cost of Unity
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, […]
The Messiness of Microaggressions
1 Corinthians 12:12, 26 NRSV For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it […]
Monday in Beverly Hills
I had just arrived a block west of Rodeo Drive to the church I would serve in Beverly Hills. The rector told me not to bring my lunch, that it […]
Single at 28 (and 82)
Sometimes being a single woman in ministry is awkward. When a very hospitable mother-of-the-bride stuck by my side for the entire wedding reception because she knew I was there alone, […]
Your Seminary Course Catalog (A Few Additions)
I believe I received a wonderful theological education at the two Baptist seminaries I attended (Eastern–now Palmer, and Central). I can decline Greek verbs (OK, I could at one time), […]
