From Competition to Collaboration
What happens when a small church decides to stop competing? Everyone wins. The small, suburban bedroom community where I pastor is saturated with churches. There is a main road that […]
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Can These Bones Live?: Another Sermon from the YCWI 2024 Conference
When I first found out that our Young Clergy Women International Conference this year, the first in person gathering since before the pandemic, was going to be in Washington, D.C. […]
From There to Here: YCWI Conference Reflections from St. Louis to D.C.
Six years ago at my first YCWI conference, I was newly serving as the lead pastor of a large church, newly separated and heading for divorce, newly single and just […]
Sheltered Under God’s Wings: Young Clergywomen Meet with the First Female Chaplain of the House
The Rev. Dr. Margaret Grun Kibben, the 62nd Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives, stood in front of a group of young clergywomen who had gathered in DC […]
Can These Bones Live: Reflections on the YCWI Conference
Everyone in worship the Sunday after the YCWI Conference was asking Rev. Maggie Rust about her time away, noting that it looked like she had such a good time and […]
Flourishing In Our Bones: The YCWI 2024 Conference Closing Sermon
As a pastor and hospital chaplain, I have spent a fair amount of time with the dead. At a previous church, which had an underground columbarium, we could only inurn […]
In Every Place
I attended my first YCWI conference in 2018. Travel and housing expenses weren’t going to hold me back — the conference was held in the city where I lived! I […]
Opening Worship
Opening Worship 7-29-19 There were arches and a peak made of wood and polished, carved with a clover symbol for the Holy Trinity. And feathers were laid on the […]
Altars and Altered: Looking Toward YCWI Conference
I love Atlanta and I love my YCWI friends, but the top reason I am excited for the 2019 Young Clergy Women International Conference is because I will be able […]
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 […]
