Jul 8, 2015 | Weekly Words
One of the greatest blessings in my life has been to share not only parenting and friendship with my husband but also pastoring. When we began our call at a small rural church in South Carolina, my husband served as senior pastor, and I, as associate. Within a year,...
Jul 1, 2015 | Weekly Words
A common house fly–well, a rather large fly to be more precise–prompted the most recent wave of unexpected grief to wash over me. This spring the purple burst of the first wild violet I saw brought delight and tears. Toward the end of a non-stop day, the...
Jun 23, 2015 | Weekly Words
Whether we are at a theme park, Chuck-E-Cheese, a local play, or university football game, my seven-year-old daughter, Kinsey, loves to meet the “characters.” Although she can’t sit still for more than five minutes, she will happily wait in line for half an hour to...
Jun 17, 2015 | Weekly Words
I cringe a little when I think about those words spoken to me so many years ago. “What you are feeling, this calling to ministry, this calling means you are meant to marry a minister.” In my middle teenage years, this was one response I received when I first became...
Jun 10, 2015 | Weekly Words
My new book, Strength for the Journey: Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors, focuses on women who continue to preach and serve as pastors and who have remained Baptists in the South but are no longer Southern Baptists. I became curious about these women....
Jun 3, 2015 | Weekly Words
The child in the pulpit the little girl waving her hands giving shouts of pretend exhortation what she saw was normal the only element of imagination need come from whatever text she pretends to voice she is a girl but she knows now she can do it she can preach she...
