Divorced Woman Moving. Help Needed.
Last month, my family and I moved again. We’ve moved a number of times, so you’d think that we would be old pros, able to easily navigate the ups and […]
A Chance for New Life
My 35th birthday was a difficult one. I had been serving as a solo pastor in a small Presbyterian Church in Washington State for 5 years, and it just didn’t […]
Cooking For One
“I was going to take this class called Cooking For One but the instructor killed himself.” Liz Lemon, 30 Rock I really like to cook. I will spend days looking […]
Keeping the Sabbath
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 summer […]
Life is a Highway
Last week I reached a milestone. I paid off my car. It took me 5 years to do it, and I found, as I saw the last bill with $0.00 […]
Searching, Searching, Searching…
A post appeared recently in the closed Facebook network for The Young Clergy Women Project that caught my eye. In this post, a fellow YCW asked about the search process […]
Shame
by Name Withheld An online engagement announcement. In one second I was thrown from a bored moment at the computer, idly Facebooking between tasks, to crushing doubt, self-criticism, and questioning […]
Open Relationship
I never thought I would end up in an open relationship. I never dreamed that this is the way my life would unfold. But then, as a young clergywoman, I […]
Blessed Be the Tentmakers
I haven’t had a boyfriend in a very, very long time. Or even a good date.This long stretch of singlehood has made me identify more closely with the women in […]
Sex(ism) and The Single Rev
Feminism seems to be a dirty word these days. At a recent all-women roller derby practice one of the organizers cheerfully described the league as being run by women, for […]
