Neichelle Guidry: Leading the vocational journey through the lens of sisterhood
The Dean of Chapel at Spelman College talks about her vocation -- helping form black millennial women in ministry and faith.
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Chanequa Walker-Barnes: The purpose of rest is to enable us to work more, right?
Deeply and faithfully loving and caring for oneself is enough -- it’s not just a pause between activities, writes a seminary professor and psychologist.
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Ellen Clark Clémot: A former Wall Street lawyer finds a new and richer life in ministry
She found working on Wall Street exhilarating -- until the day she began to sense an emptiness in the canyons of power and money, says a former corporate lawyer who now leads a very different life as a PCUSA pastor.
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Johnathan C. Richardson: How can we understand our authority as Christian leaders?
Leaders must rely on an authority grounded in Christ as prophet, priest and king, writes an AME pastor in North Carolina.
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Samuel Chuin Ming Oo: What does it mean to be baptized in the name of God?
This baptism that Jesus called us to is fundamentally a call for allegiance -- a “pickling” in the ways of Christ, the English pastor of the Chinese Christian Mission Church in Durham, North Carolina, says in this sermon.
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: A prayer to begin the day
An ancient prayer helps today’s Christian leaders remember that God is already with us in our work, blessing, guiding and teaching us, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Before reciting her vows, Sister Joanna kneels before Sister Anne Marie, superior of Valley of Our Lady Monastery. Photos by Kevin Clark
Sister Joanna takes the final step to monastic life
After years of discernment, a young Catholic woman enters the monastery -- and a life of prayer as a cloistered nun.
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Natasha Jamison Gadson: How I embraced my authority as an African-American woman in ministry
Overcoming stereotypes and assumptions has been difficult for a female minister in a historic African-American church. But, she writes, she was not serving the people by trying to be what others wanted her to be.
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Brian Christopher Coulter: Reflections on a gold-fringed stole
A fifth-generation pastor reflects on the gifts he received at his ordination, which point to both the static and the evolving nature of ministry.
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Kendall Vanderslice: Baking as embodied prayer
When the author doesn’t have words for prayer, she pulls out flour and leavening. Her hands transform the ingredients and express to God her lamentation and her hope, her fear and her joy.