Promotional for the launch of Embodied: Clergy Women and the Solidarity of a Mothering God:
Revealing “Invisible” Leadership
On Gender Equality: We Have Made Great Strides and We Are Not There Yet
Who Is Caring for Church Leaders?
Celebrating 50/40/10 Years of Women’s Ordination
Clergy Appreciation Month – A Few New Books to Give as Gifts! Englewood Review of Books (Embodied is #5!)
Book Review on ReluctantXtian
Who Mothers Us When We’re Alone for the Holidays? for Good Faith Media
The wait changes us for The Presbyterian Outlook
A Gift of Ministry in Living Lutheran, December issue
Women in ministry: Then and now co-written with Donna Fowler-Marchant for the UMC
What’s Wrong With Thinking of Church as a Family? book excerpts in Leading Ideas from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership (I was a Lewis Fellow)
Other Writing
Bold Cafe: Discovering Your Passion
Episcopal Cafe: Adiaphora; God, the Parent; Ministry: An Emotional Labor; Magical Thinking Ain’t Faithful; The Dangers of a Calling; A Teen’s Summer Job Is Not Only That; Chautauqua: “Where God Goes on Her Summer Vacation?”; Nuance and Kinship: A Review of Red State Christians; Leaning into the “Community” Part of a CSA; Electric Charging and Resurrection Hope; A Tradition of Blessing; Art Can Save Lives; Book Review: Buying God; All Churches Are In An Interim: 3 Values for Liminal Times; How to Read During a Pandemic; When Their Spiritual Memoir Becomes Part of My Faith’s Future; I’m Trying
Faith+Leader: Eating Our Values; All Churches Are In An Interim: 3 Values for Liminal Times (republication); Simultaneously Working and Parenting; 4 Ways to Deliver a Message When You Cannot Preach; Sources for Eco-Theology
Fidelia’s Sisters (YCWI): Pastor in the Pew; In Praise of the Ambush Wedding
Living Lutheran: God or mother? Both.; I want my kids to watch me doing this; What forced sabbath reveals about God; Thanking God for adults without children; Good news for parents not in church; The great value of a pastor’s divided attention; Shaping the church for the COVID-19 generation
Red Letter Christians: Breastfeeding God; Mary Knew the Risks of #MeToo; Ashes to Ashes, I Love You; God, Our Parent, Would Never Treat Children Like This; We Are Not All There Is; Parenting As Activism; Why We Want to Skip Holy Week; Telling the Truth About Ourselves (Review of “One Coin Found”); Facing the Church’s Complicity in Racism; Chasing Resurrection: How Conservation is Gospel Work; When Faithfulness Means Checking Your Sources; Watch and Pray: A Message for the Symptomatic
Scary Mommy: How Adopting Changed the Way I Parent
Sojourners: 3 Ways That Calling God ‘Mother’ Transforms Us
Vital: A Health Humanities Magazine: Faith and Public Health
Working Preacher: Preaching Adoption ; Why ‘Preaching + ____________? (introducing the series I curated); Guest Preaching in an Age of ‘Too Political’
Guest Blogposts:
- “For Sabbath’s Sake” book launch: Sabbath for the Stay-Home Parent”
- 30 Portraits of Adoption in 30 Days: Faithful in the Process
- Women of the ELCA: Identifying with Heroes Results in Hard Truths
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