The Table
When I was 20, I spent five months studying and researching interfaith relationships in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal and Ladakh, India. Part of that time, I spent in high […]
Pentecost: Language Speaks to Spirituality
I’ve always felt closer to God when reading the Bible in Danish. However, I’m not a native speaker; I was born in the US to a family from Denmark and […]
Breaking Down the “Us Versus Them” Mentality
A sermon based on Mark 9:38-50 and James 5:13-20 It’s been over 2,000 years since Christ’s coming, yet today’s churches and Christians face some of the same problems as Jesus’ […]
Repairers of the Breach
The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of […]
Can These Bones Live?: Another Sermon from the YCWI 2024 Conference
When I first found out that our Young Clergy Women International Conference this year, the first in person gathering since before the pandemic, was going to be in Washington, D.C. […]
Flourishing In Our Bones: The YCWI 2024 Conference Closing Sermon
As a pastor and hospital chaplain, I have spent a fair amount of time with the dead. At a previous church, which had an underground columbarium, we could only inurn […]
Proctor Conference 2023: A Family Affair
We knew we were in for a ride when the Reverend Neichelle R. Guidry, PhD, Dean of Chapel and Director of the WISDOM Center at Spelman College, concluded the reading […]
No Christmas Without Her: Bathsheba’s Story
Nothing quite says Christmas like a sermon about Bathsheba. Bathsheba is the last woman’s name other than Mary’s to be mentioned in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew. Except we don’t exactly […]
No Christmas Without Her: Ruth’s Story
The stories from Jesus’ complicated family tree are a legacy of courage and faith, justice and peace, that shape how we understand our Savior in the manger of Bethlehem. Today, […]
