Sep 21, 2016 | Weekly Words
I recently spent a lovely Saturday at the Baptist Women in Ministry of Georgia retreat, Be Still. During the retreat, led by Darci Jaret and Sharyn Dowd, we created a collaborative art project, listened to each other’s stories, spent time in stillness, and shared...
Sep 14, 2016 | +Pam Durso, Weekly Words
Two months. I am two months into my three-month sabbatical. On July 15, I walked away from my duties at Baptist Women in Ministry. (I also am taking a sabbatical from my adjunct teaching position at McAfee School of Theology and my associate minister position at...
Sep 7, 2016 | Weekly Words
Last night I stood in front of a bathroom sink halfway full of chunks of my hair. Since moving to Cambodia, I’ve been learning to cut my hair all by myself. There are plenty of salons in this town, but I can’t bear trying to communicate what I want done to my hair in...
Aug 30, 2016 | Weekly Words
Have you heard that overtime regulations changed this year? In May, the Department of Labor finalized new federal regulations that go into effect on December 1, 2016, expanding overtime protection for millions of workers in the United States. Many pastors, church...
Aug 17, 2016 | Weekly Words
As we looked at the menu on the wall in the Korean restaurant—the first reminder of home that the Korean students had seen since arriving in Charlotte, North Carolina—the students had the biggest smiles that I had ever seen. They all began to speak quickly in Korean...
Aug 3, 2016 | Weekly Words
Two of the most dreaded words in a seminary class syllabus are “group project.” Unfortunately for my classmates and I, our seminary was as fond of group projects as it was of Matrix-based theology metaphors. We inevitably encountered them every semester. The problem...
