Ask a YCW- Halloween Edition
Dear Ask a YCW, I found this great sexy pope costume online. Is it ok for me to wear it to the Halloween Party at my church tonight? Party Pastrix […]
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Single at 28 (and 82)
Sometimes being a single woman in ministry is awkward. When a very hospitable mother-of-the-bride stuck by my side for the entire wedding reception because she knew I was there alone, […]
Pastor in the Pew
When I let it slide into conversation that I am a pastor, the natural follow-up question is, “Where’s your congregation?” For me right now, that answer requires extra explanation. I […]
Home
Houses aren’t meant to sit empty. It’s hard on them. They’re meant for occupying—pipes need water to move through them, not just to sit and corrode. Windows and doors need […]
A Conference Story
As young clergy women gathered in Vancouver, Canada, for YCWI’s tenth anniversary conference earlier this July, the scenery was gorgeous and the weather was spectacular. The conference was uplifting, invigorating, […]
Ripples of Love
Sitting at my studio table, I am renewed. As the light dapples through the open windows, I am surrounded by art and story. While I appear in solitude, I am […]
How Can I Keep From Singing?
When I was growing up, my parents thought it was so important that their children learn to sing in a choir that we went to two churches. My Dad pastored […]
Praying with Our Farmers
Like many good ministry ideas, this one came about by accident. I interned at two small, rural churches during my second year in seminary. At one of the churches – […]
Communion in the City
There’s a story, a myth perhaps, about a congregation that stopped all activities during Lent. That season they gathered for Sunday worship, and then the pastor and elders visited the […]
Coming out of the Clergy Closet
Last year our oldest child started at a new child development center. Unlike the commercial daycare setting we’d ended up at during the first year of our new call, the […]
