Love ’em, Leave ’em, and Know What to Say

Over my ten years of ordained work, I have discerned a call to intentional interim ministry, or as I sometimes put it, “love ‘em and leave ‘em.”  I take both […]

Where You Go, I Will Go…

Marriage means different things to different people. For some, it is a proclamation of love and a daily choice to love the one you’re with. For others, it’s an excuse […]

Putting Down Roots

  If you ever watched much of “Will and Grace,” the name of my city might sound familiar.  Schenectady, oddly not a fictional name, home to fictional Grace, that unknown, […]

For Worse: Part 2

Editor’s Note: This essay is the second in a two-part series. The first installment was published in the March edition of “The Ones We Love.” My son and I have […]

For Worse (Part 1).

Editor’s Note: This essay is the first in a two-part series. Look for the second installment in April’s edition of “The Ones We Love.” While there is much I don’t […]

Long-Distance Relationship

I met one of the great loves of my life at an Interim Ministry seminar.  Listless in a basement classroom at my seminary alma mater, I found myself alternately annoyed […]

For Richer or For Poorer

by Angie Mabry-Nauta Editor’s Note: This article is one in an occasional series called “All About the Benjamins,” running this fall on Fidelia’s Sisters. As many congregations and organizations are running […]

In Sickness and In Health

by Angie Mabry-Nauta Editor’s Note: This article is one in an occasional series called “All About the Benjamins,” running this fall on Fidelia’s Sisters. As many congregations and organizations are running […]

For Better Or For Worse

“Mawwage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam…”  The Princess Bride is one of my husband and my favorite movies.  Eric and I have seen it so many times […]

BEautiful!

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder…why don’t more of us behold beauty? I have a friend who used to regularly greet me by saying, “Hello, beautiful!”  This […]