Sabbath is My Kryptonite
This month’s Moms in Ministry article is an excerpt from the third book in the Young Clergy Women Project’s imprint with Chalice Press. More information about this partnership can be […]
Sometimes You Have No Choice But to Make a Choice
Two years ago, I stood in the pulpit preaching the hardest sermon I would preach to date. That sermon; my first “goodbye” and “I failed, I’m sorry” sermon, flowed from […]
Never a Fatherless Child
This Father’s Day will be the first on which my son’s father is no longer my husband. He left me for another woman earlier this year, and though he has […]
God’s Storyteller
Most of my pastor friends who are also moms have either younger children than I do, or much older. Much has been written, and rightly so, about parenting a baby […]
Abundant Grace
In retrospect, I should have just skipped the meeting. Everyone would have understood, after all, we had just taken custody of our first foster child three days before. She was […]
A Wilderness Sabbath: Towards Motherhood
Editor’s Note: This article is one in an occasional series called “A Lenten Pause,” running on Fidelia’s Sisters until Easter. As many young clergy women plan to come to our […]
Adopted by the Grace of God
Editor’s Note: Rev. Brown preached this sermon at Seneca Presbyterian Church in Seneca, SC on January 1, 2012. Text: Genesis 17:1-7 and Galatians 3:26-29; 4:4-7. The Christmas tree is down, […]
I’m a Mom and a Minister, But I Feel Like a Complete Mess!
“Get up! Where are your shoes? Stop! Get down! What are you wearing? Is it clean? Stop! Get off of that! Don’t eat off the floor! Put it down!” That’s […]
A Day in the Life of a Pastor/Mother
I love this photo. Exemplified in this photo is where my life as a mom and as a pastor intersect. This is the day that my daughter was baptized. I […]
The One We’d Only Begun to Love
by Jennifer Ingold Asbill The Monday morning after Mother’s Day we found out we were pregnant. 4 weeks later, on my father-in-law’s birthday, we found out we were having a […]
