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How to Walk to a Meeting in Manhattan…While Female and Wearing a Clerical Collar and Red Leather Boots

Be female. Be ordained. Be in Manhattan and, if at all possible, have plans and credentials to attend sessions at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. As you prepare for the day, put on a dress with a clerical collar and knee-high red leather boots. Leave your hotel room early in the […]

Pretty Little Minister

“Well, aren’t you a pretty little minister? How old are you?” The grey-haired piano tuner had met me on the steps of the church, in the small New England town where I was serving, so I could unlock the big wooden doors and he could tune our grand piano. Bristling, I told him: “Twenty-four.” Then […]