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One Year To the Day
Photo Credit to Catherine Roy The gray walls whisper goodbye to me as I walk through them for a last time, making my way down the long hallways to surgery. Or perhaps I am the one extending silent...
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The best continuing-ed/ Sabbath-y/ awesome, fun thing you can do this summer
There’s a moment in every area clergy gathering or general church meeting I’ve come to expect over the past few years—it’s that second when there’s a pause in conversation and I begin to look around...
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Bread and Blessing
“I wish I could receive at your church,” my stepson Ben said to me one Sunday as we all prepared for a busy day of worship, Sunday school, and meetings. It took me a minute to connect the dots and...
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The Jesus Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Young Clergy Woman
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the...
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Your Pregnant Pastor: Ten Things You Should Know
I am grateful that you’re happy for us. Far too many women still face on-the-job discrimination and hostility because of pregnancy. It wasn’t so long ago that it was legal to fire women because they...
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Walter’s Cigarettes
When I was a teenager, I promised myself that I would never buy cigarettes. A few of my friends smoked, and occasionally someone would offer me a cigarette and I would accept. Fearful of addiction, I...
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Meet the Search Committee
This past year, every few months, I met with a group of young clergy with the Lewis Fellows. Every time we gathered, we began with a check-in where I got to explain once again: I’m still searching. My...
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Making Coffee Kind Again
“Smile, sweetheart, the c*** lost,” he said. Not exactly how I pictured starting my morning the day after the election, the first day into a President-elect Trump world. “It’s inappropriate to speak to...
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Meet the Search Committee
This past year, every few months, I met with a group of young clergy with the Lewis Fellows. Every time we gathered, we began with a check-in where I got to explain once again: I’m still searching. My...
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Your Pregnant Pastor: Ten Things You Should Know
I am grateful that you’re happy for us. Far too many women still face on-the-job discrimination and hostility because of pregnancy. It wasn’t so long ago that it was legal to fire women because they...
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Bread and Blessing
“I wish I could receive at your church,” my stepson Ben said to me one Sunday as we all prepared for a busy day of worship, Sunday school, and meetings. It took me a minute to connect the dots and...
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The Jesus Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Young Clergy Woman
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the...
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Walter’s Cigarettes
When I was a teenager, I promised myself that I would never buy cigarettes. A few of my friends smoked, and occasionally someone would offer me a cigarette and I would accept. Fearful of addiction, I...
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Making Coffee Kind Again
“Smile, sweetheart, the c*** lost,” he said. Not exactly how I pictured starting my morning the day after the election, the first day into a President-elect Trump world. “It’s inappropriate to speak to...
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Something Old, Something New
Check out new columns in this month’s edition of Fidelia! Back in July, a small group of young clergy women who are unusually obsessed with grammar scooted our folding chairs up to folding tables in...
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Zechariah: In Which God Redeems a Mansplainer
A painting by artist Alexandr Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858) Holy One, we come with many things on our hearts and minds. We come with grief and with joy, with heavy hearts and busy schedules. We come...
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Hero
Everyone imagines themselves as the hero of their own story. Especially every child — and I was a child. They all imagine themselves as heroes. That’s not a new thing; it’s like that here in your...
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Your Pregnant Pastor: Ten Things You Should Know
I am grateful that you’re happy for us. Far too many women still face on-the-job discrimination and hostility because of pregnancy. It wasn’t so long ago that it was legal to fire women because they...
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Bread and Blessing
“I wish I could receive at your church,” my stepson Ben said to me one Sunday as we all prepared for a busy day of worship, Sunday school, and meetings. It took me a minute to connect the dots and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Jesus Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Young Clergy Woman
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the...
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