Spiritual Practices: Writing
This week, I spoke to a spiritual direction student about spiritual practices, sometimes called spiritual disciplines. When speaking to folks familiar with spiritual disciples, the first things that come to […]
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National Novel Writing Month with Young Clergywomen
Once upon a time, a group of writers gathered, furnished with journals and fancy pens, or laptops draped in fun stickers. Pastors and chaplains gathered together with church members at […]
My Not-So-Dirty Secret
I first began writing romance novels when my twins were five months old; I was hooked up to the good old Medela breast pump and hunched over the laptop. I’d […]
Finding Words
I have finally found my voice. I found my voice after seven years of often squelching, silencing parish ministry. For some reason beyond me, this new sense of purpose and […]
A Prayer Before Writing for Academia
God Above All Things, In these moments while the document loads and my fingers rest on the keyboard grant me first an emptiness. Remove the to-do list that waits impatiently […]
NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul
NaNoWriMo is eating my soul. This is how it happened: On the first day of this month, I saw a Facebook post about NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. I […]
New Poems by “Pink Shoes”
This month we feature two new poems by a pseudonymous blogger who writes at Pink Shoes in the Pulpit. Words You remind me of words I said long ago […]
The Holy Spirit Resides in My Mattress
The Holy Spirit resides in my mattress … I’m pretty sure. The first time I noticed this was when I was in college, though I didn’t call it the Holy […]
