Aleta Payne

Senior editor, Faith & Leadership

Aleta Payne joined Faith & Leadership in November 2019. Aleta’s role as senior editor combines her experience in newspaper and magazine journalism with her work at faith-based nonprofits, including the North Carolina Council of Churches and Johnson Service Corps. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, holds a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke, and has completed a two-year program on Anglicanism and social justice through the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary.

Aleta writes occasional commentary for the opinion pages of the News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer and is also a published poet and essayist. She is a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church where she serves as a lay Eucharistic minister and is active with several of the parish’s justice ministries.

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Aleta Payne

Senior editor, Faith & Leadership

Mary’s Song is an expression of maternal love

We are not OK. Does it help to start saying so?

Mary’s mothering included many moments of tender nurture

Do not swim alone, and other lessons for the church

Instead of defining progress as building bridges, consider what the work requires

Are we losing our ability to lament gun violence?

Creating our future is a group effort

Some churchgoers have an incomplete vision of race in America

The parable of the shopping carts

Aleta Payne: The wise men packed up their privilege and slipped out the back

To my white sisters in Christ

Aleta Payne: Easter at the altar of my kitchen table