What happens when a small church decides to stop competing? Everyone wins. The small, suburban bedroom community where I pastor is saturated with churches. There is a main road that will take you all the way through town, which begins at a highway exit. In one four-mile stretch, there are no less than fifteen church […]
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. I was so FREAKING excited, but probably not for the reasons you are thinking- I’m not particularly excited about the historic museums or important monuments, […]
Six years ago at my first YCWI conference, I was newly serving as the lead pastor of a large church, newly separated and heading for divorce, newly single and just starting to date, and just starting to come out as queer. It had been a chaotic year to say the least, and YCWI was getting […]
The Rev. Dr. Margaret Grun Kibben, the 62nd Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives, stood in front of a group of young clergywomen who had gathered in DC for our conference. A unique series of events allowed for fourteen attendees of the 2024 Young Clergy Women International Conference in Washington D.C. to meet […]
Everyone in worship the Sunday after the YCWI Conference was asking Rev. Maggie Rust about her time away, noting that it looked like she had such a good time and seemed so energized. One person said, “It’s great a group like that exists!” Her thought? They don’t know the half of it.
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 remains during a stretch of warm, dry weather, which are hard to come by in Maryland except during the summer. My office, then, became the […]
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