Board Books: What We’re Reading
Pastors, by nature of their calling, are word-lovers. We are story-tellers, readers, and writers. We spend time with our noses buried books, but it’s a great mistake to think that […]
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Four Thoughts on Incorporating Faith Into Daily Family Life (For Clergy Moms and Everyone)
There is a proverb in Spanish: “En la casa del herrero, cuchillo de palo.” It means “In the blacksmith’s house, a wooden knife.” In English we express the same idea […]
A Review of Traci Smith’s Seamless Faith: Simple Practices for Daily Family Life
“May God bless you and keep you while you sleep, May you rest in God’s mercies, and wake to God’s grace, May you dream of God’s blessings, and know that you are […]
Review of Amy Fetterman and Teri Peterson’s “Who’s Got Time?”
Sunday, September 29th To Do: Hit snooze button. Shower, make coffee, struggle with zipper on clergy dress. Confront sea of baked goods for annual appreciation breakfast at church. Slice and […]
A Review of Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology by Mihee Kim-Kort
It’s not every day you get to read a seminal, formative work in a still-emerging field of theology. But that is exactly what Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American […]
Sabbath in the Suburbs
“When you get to the heart of it, we were looking for a way to cheat time.” My attention was grabbed with the opening words of MaryAnn McKibben Dana’s debut […]
Sabbath is My Kryptonite
This month’s Moms in Ministry article is an excerpt from the third book in the Young Clergy Women Project’s imprint with Chalice Press. More information about this partnership can be […]
Honest Testimony: A Review of Any Day A Beautiful Change
In a preaching class, I was once told that a number of historic pulpits have a verse from John 12 carved into them: “Sir, we would see Jesus.” This was meant […]
Bless Her Heart: Because You’re Not the Only One
Ashley-Anne Master and Stacy Smith’s Bless Her Heart: Life as a Young Clergy Woman will be on the bedside table of every young clergy woman. Whether these women are seminarians, […]
