Mar 9, 2016 | Weekly Words
I’m a planner. I like to know exactly what my week looks like before it begins. At the start of every semester I get a thrill from carefully going through my syllabi, class-by-class, and writing the semester’s assignments in my planner. When I started seminary three...
Mar 2, 2016 | Weekly Words
On March 15, 2016, I will celebrate thirty years of friendship with eight women—eight African American women. I place emphasis on our race because, historically, black women have been stereotyped as angry with trust issues and as “drama queens!” Because of these...
Feb 24, 2016 | Weekly Words
I did not start in ministry as a married woman. I accepted my call to ministry while in I was in college, and after participating in several overseas mission trips, I went on to seminary, finishing in four years. I was then ordained, did Clinical Pastoral Education,...
Feb 17, 2016 | Weekly Words
The beginning of 2016 has brought a busy season for me and my ministry. A number of special events, trips, normal gatherings, meetings, and demands of life have flooded all the hours of my days. I don’t say this as a complaint but as a reality. In the midst of these...
Feb 10, 2016 | Weekly Words
In just a few days, my husband and I will be traveling to China to adopt our little girl; finally turning the page on a chapter in our life that has been nine years in the making. She is fourteen months old, and as her caretaker describes, “she is tiny, but fierce.”...
Feb 3, 2016 | Weekly Words
1:00 p.m.: My 12-hour shift begins. I meet with a potential kidney donor. A few of our chaplains, including me, are trained as Living Donor Advocates. I discuss the risks of donation and ask if they feel pressure from anyone to donate, then give them a chance to raise...
