Preaching on Jonah tomorrow and including a bit about how Amber Glenn is the anti-Jonah. He pouts when others get blessings, and she celebrates them. Love having real-world examples of incredible women to use in sermons!
Perpetual reminder that your church should have period products in the bathrooms.
I be talking about period poverty from the pulpit tomorrow. I wish this weren't a rare thing. (Sermon on Wesley's General Rules, specifically Do Good, framed by Luke 8:40-56.)
Jesus cared about the health of menstruating women. The Church needs to catch up.
I am a big fan of celebrating small wins, medium wins and big wins. It helps all of us stay engaged and realize that we are making a difference, even if it feels slow. I'm in Texas and an advocate for Reproductive Justice, so you can imagine that I'm going to take any win we get no matter how small!
If you are worried I'm rewriting my sermon in light of the news, I appreciate that you assume I had already written it.
What a week to be a guest preacher.
I read this last night, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I feel like this take may help some of my clergy siblings reconsider their AI usage. Or I can at least hope. Thank you for putting it so well.
Just started Northanger Abbey. It’s my 4th Jane Austen this year. Finally reading them.
Sing lustily and with good courage!
I like when it’s on the screen and the hymn number is listed. Everyone is happy! (Except people who want to sing CCM, I guess, but that’s a whole other topic.)
I sing far more enthusiastically from a hymnal than a screen. I need to know the notes! I need to know where I’ve been and where I’m going! And I probably left my distance glasses at home but have my readers. Plus the guy in front of me is too tall.
AI sermon writing upsets me, but what really gets me mad is people (clergy)who use AI to write prayers.
AI is biased in many ways. The names for the various iterations are as well.
Wow. That is both horrifying and unsurprising.
Though only a handful of students go on to pursue music professionally, every one of them leaves their band programs as more well-rounded individuals.
Especially in school restrooms--not just in the nurse's office! Kids shouldn't have to get a pass to the nurse, walking past several restrooms along the way there, just to get a pad.
To be fair, those did radicalize me. Deeper into Methonerdery.
Yeah, just like all the Mary adoration in the Catholic Church (which I love!), but that doesn’t stop them. Who knows? Maybe it’s because we ordain women?
I guess not from other denoms, but they did when they left the UMC. But overall, all Wesleyans are probably still grace-focused for the trad boys.
You don’t think they went to the GMC? They did here. At least some did.
I wouldn't say "uncomfortable." I like being a visible reminder that women can and do serve in ministry. I actually keep thinking about wearing mine more. It's just that in the Bible Belt any kind of clerical vestments confuse a lot of people.
I rarely wear mine, but when I do, people do not know how to process what they are seeing.
Brite grads are rad! Really though, it’s a Disciples of Christ seminary, but with about 50% of students who are UMC. We get the best of both worlds.
I’d for sure send people to visit Perkins and Brite here. I had several Brite classmates transfer to other conferences, and they are flourishing!
The old pipeline worked for old systems. It wasn’t created with women, especially young women, in mind. Or really anyone who isn’t an able-bodied white straight man.
Come recruit down here. We have an abundance of clergy! Well, not quite as many as before disaffiliations, but still lots of them. But I’d also venture that the system itself is part of the problem, especially for women.
Cursive text in dark pink on a light background. It reads "Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable." David W. Augsburger. There is a logo in the bottom right which says Sacred Worth and has an image of a woman's profile surrounded by a pink and gold halo.
A reminder for all of us this week: Many of those yelling the loudest on any give day are just looking for attention and love. Let's all try listening more.
You are a beloved child of God now and always. So is that person being yelled at. And the one doing the yelling.
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang - finally close to finishing it!
Is it the actors going over most? I haven’t paid enough attention to know if it’s them or the directors/producers/writers. Several also said they would make up the difference, so 🤷🏻♀️
