Handmade Stole GIVEAWAY!!!

A few days ago, Sarah posted our first Fidelia's Sisters 2nd anniversary giveaway; have you commented yet for a chance to win a $50 Chalice Press gift certificate? If not, hop to it, and come back here right away to learn about our second big giveaway! Are you back yet? Good. Keep reading. Anna Gordy […]

Being a Doer of the Word

by Mel Baars “Every generous act of giving with every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father.” James 1:17 Two days after my ordination, I boarded a plane for South Africa in order to begin a period of service at a Presbyterian church in a township outside of Cape Town. Looking back […]

Hospitality, Community and Survival in Gran Torino

by Mihee Kim-Kort Clint Eastwood has done it again. Like fine wine, over time he seems to become more compelling with films like Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, and lately, Gran Torino. It is amazing he has been doing movies since the 1950’s and yet, he still remains provocative and interesting, particularly […]

Fidelia’s Sisters is turning two!

Watch out, world; Fidelia’s Sisters is entering its terrible twos! We trust the year ahead will not involve too many temper tantrums—though the occasional spirited argument in the comments section of an article is always welcomed. In the last year, we said goodbye to Kate Smanik Moyes, our assistant editor whose job change and new […]

Electronic Communion

by Julie Richardson Brown Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with technology. My Samsung BlackJack II is never far from my grasp and my laptop is one of my best friends. Both enable me to work just as easily from my office as from my front […]

Slacker Parenting

by Erica Schemper Late that Saturday afternoon, my daughter’s well-being was the farthest thing from my mind. I had 30 teenagers spread across the front of the church, and we were frantically pulling together the details for a youth-led worship service. The musicians needed a piece of music transposed for a saxophone, the projected technology […]

Reflections on the Sacred Center

This month we feature an engaging meditation through word and image on what (and who) centers us in our roles as women and as ministers. The prayer here was inspired in part by news that the founder of The Young Clergy Women Project, Susan Olson, has been united with her new daughter Selam in Ethiopia. […]

Why Can’t We Be Friends?

by MaryAnn McKibben Dana I’m about to lose about 60 friends on Facebook. Or am I? After six years as an associate pastor, I recently took a call at a new church. The last few weeks have been filled with all that betwixt-and-between stuff. I slowly began telling people who needed to know, swearing them […]

In Sickness and in Health

by Stacey Midge Editor’s note: This sermon on Ezekiel 34 and Matthew 10, delivered in the preacher’s congregation on August 30, 2009, is an example of preaching that is personal, and political. It serves as an elegant example of the instances when one’s personal life collides with timely topics and we feel called, as preachers, […]

Still a Writer

by Bromleigh McCleneghan “Pastor” did not top the list of my dream professions as a child, or even into junior high and high school, when the upper-middle class world I grew up in begins encouraging kids to firm up their vocational plans. Broadway star, lawyer, host of a show on National Public Radio about religion […]