Chronic Illness in the Body of Christ
As a chronically ill clergywoman, sometimes I’m afraid the Great Physician is just another dismissive doctor waiving off my debilitating symptoms as normal and it’s up to me to manage […]
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Holodomor and Thanksgiving
Every November, as many in the United States prepare their Thanksgiving turkeys and make plans to gather around the table with friends, family and perhaps too much food, the world […]
Celebrating Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Juliette Gordon Low: How the Girl Scouts Shaped Me as a Young Clergywoman
In the Girl Scouts, I’ve found a place where I don’t have to leave any part of myself at the door. In contrast to the church, which often adheres to […]
A “Subversive Sister-Saint” Post-Easter Reading List
For my Doctor of Ministry program in Faith, Health & Social Equity I was afforded the opportunity to choose any elective I wanted last spring. I chose to take a […]
Our Bodies, Our Selves: Women’s Bodies in the Pulpit
I was just one year past the anniversary of my ordination and ten weeks pregnant with my first child when my partner and I sent out the invitations to the […]
2015 YCW Summer Conference
This Summer, the YCW are GTT[1] I look forward to the Young Clergywomen Conference every summer. For me, it’s a no-miss July ritual, right up there with hotdogs and fireworks. […]
When Procrastinating on the Sermon is Good
It was late July, and I was enjoying the school holiday break from my usual School Chaplaincy activities. Over those two weeks I had periodically glanced at the readings set […]
Tired Shoulders
My shoulders are tired this afternoon. Most of that is soreness from doing hair yesterday. All of yesterday: 10 hours of washing, conditioning, putting in product, brushing, combing, parting, […]
Pilgrimage with My Mother
In May 2014, my mother and I walked the last 110km of the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain. There have been many wonderful books, blogs and websites […]
We Have What It Takes
In 2002, my spouse and had I both graduated from seminary and had began serving as a clergy couple in rural Kentucky. Soon after we arrived, I experienced an incredibly […]
