Jan 31, 2018 | Weekly Words
A vocational call can manifest itself in many ways. I have some friends in ministry who can recall a distinct moment where everything clicked, they felt God’s call to ministry, and they immediately knew how that vocation would manifest itself. Unfortunately, or maybe...
Jan 25, 2018 | Weekly Words
One of my biggest passions in ministry is helping others in their journey to accept and express God’s calling. Why is that? Because I believe that God has a purpose for all of us, and the sooner we know that, the sooner we can begin doing that which God has called us...
Jan 18, 2018 | Weekly Words
There are many urgent questions for the church in 2018. Here is one that presses in on every side: What role can the church play in the #MeToo movement? Unfortunately, the church already plays a role of collusion when the traumas of abuse and sexual violence take...
Jan 11, 2018 | Weekly Words
How does a minister cope with her own history of surviving, forgetting, and then remembering and healing from years of trauma and sexual violence? Rev. Peggy Haymes knows. And in her 2014 book, I Don’t Remember Signing Up for This Class: A Life of Darkness, Light and...
Jan 4, 2018 | Weekly Words
Over the past few months I have been fortunate to work closely with Laine Scales, a professor at Baylor University, serving as her intern at Good Neighbor House in Waco, Texas. From her I learned that Baptist women worked in settlement houses one hundred years ago,...
Nov 9, 2017 | Weekly Words
The following is reprinted with permission from Religion Dispatches. Follow RD on Facebook or Twitter for daily updates. Confession: I hold an ordination from a denomination that, broadly speaking, does not ordain women. I have benefited greatly from this ministerial...
