To be a church leader in our time requires not only a clear calling but also courage. If you hope and desire that your faith community will be part of the change for justice and equality rather than one of the obstacles to it, then you need knowledge, commitment and willingness to to risk something big for the sake of something better for all people.
No simple path to change is available. The complexity of how the systems of inequality are maintained is a part of their power. Their hiddenness contributes to keeping the status quo.
Let me make an example of the entangled, complex and hidden aspects of powers of sexism and racism in my own life. My identity as a woman is entangled with my identity as a white person. I both suffer the social exclusions of society and church as a woman, and I benefit from the privileges of society and church as a white-identifed person. At the same time...
Read more of this excerpt at: Equity in Ministry in Episode 8.
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Episode 87: Baptized and Ordained
Episode 86: How Women Thrive in Ministry
Episode 85: How to Start Meditating
Episode 84: A Mother’s Day Prayer
Episode 83: Finding Our Way
Episode 82: Talking Through Tragedy
Episode 81: Beauty of Motherhood, Full Conversation
Episode 80: Parenting as a Practice
Episode 79: Graceful Parenting
Episode 78: Mental Wellbeing
Episode 77: Leading in Loss
Episode 76: Self Compassion
Episode 75: Integrating Loss
Episode 74: Ambiguous Loss
Episode 73: Questions for Discernment
Episode 72: Vocational Discernment
Episode 71:Ten Important Things
3MMM | Episode 70: Embodied and Relational Reading
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3MMM | Episode 68: Permission to Read
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