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Marya McNeish

Resources from After Roe: An Intergenerational Conversation

July 26, 2022 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

The following list includes websites for state, regional, and national organizations providing direct care, advocacy, and support. Please support them with your dollars or your action. Following the organization list […]

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Homegrown Preaching Contest

July 20, 2022 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

Homegrown: North Carolina Women’s Preaching Festival, is delighted to announce its first annual preaching contest. The preaching contest seeks to honor women* preachers who are committed to creative, authentic, pastoral, […]

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2022 Essay Contest – Deadline July 31!

July 10, 2022 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

RCWMS is committed to supporting women as they find their voices and make them heard. In addition to our writing classes, workshops, and retreats, we run an essay contest in most […]

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Choice

July 5, 2022 by Jeanette Stokes Leave a Comment

Note: Jeanette published this article in the Summer 2022 edition of South of the Garden, just before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. My father was arrested in 1972 […]

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Love Song

June 10, 2022 by Tsharre Sanders 1 Comment

At the risk of oversimplifying her story, Sara Bareilles is a singer/songwriter who wrote this song as a *middle finger* to anyone who wanted her to sell out. After reading […]

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Seeking applicants for the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 RCWMS Anita McLeod Internship

May 26, 2022 by Jeanette Stokes Leave a Comment

The Resource Center for Women* and Ministry in the South (RCWMS) is offering paid, part-time Anita McLeod Internships for those interested in the intersections of justice, religion, and feminism and […]

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Celebrate Women Artists on SWAN Day

March 24, 2022 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day) was created in 2008 to celebrate women artists around the world. It is celebrated at the end of March each year. We welcome […]

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In Memory of Merle Boyd (1944-2022)

March 7, 2022 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

Roshi Merle Kodo Boyd passed peacefully at her home in Durham, NC, on Sunday, February 20, 2022. A recent transplant to Durham, Boyd was a cherished member of the RCWMS […]

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Introducing Our 2022 Artist-in-Residence: Kimberley Pierce Cartwright

January 28, 2022 by Marya McNeish 1 Comment

RCWMS is so pleased to officially welcome Kimberley Pierce Cartwright as our 2022 artist-in-residence!  A quilter, folk art painter, writer, entrepreneur, and journalist, Cartwright grew up in Hallsboro, NC. She […]

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Thank You!

January 19, 2022 by Rebecca Welper Leave a Comment

Thank you to everyone who donated to our year-end fundraising campaign. Your generous gifts surpassed our $44,000 goal—we ended up raising $57,500! We can’t thank you enough. Your donations will […]

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She Taught Us How to Experience the Light: In Memory of Sue Sneddon

January 13, 2022 by Marya McNeish 11 Comments

One thing I always like to say about Sue and her paintings is that she’s helped me to experience the coast in a different way in particular. I’ll often be […]

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A Review of Flesh & Bones: Learning to Love This Body

December 6, 2021 by Allison Kirkland Leave a Comment

So began a process that, over time, became familiar: every other week, then every week, I turned inward, asking myself, Can I tell the truth about one more thing? Can […]

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Anita McLeod Fall Intern Mary Coffman Reflects on a Sabbatical Season

November 22, 2021 by Mary Coffman 2 Comments

A sharp November chill slips under the crack at the door and numbs my nose while I type this, but when I arrived to my hometown of Durham for a […]

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Seeking Cohort Applicants for 2022 Queer Clergywomen Thriving in the South

November 15, 2021 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

RCWMS is seeking applicants for the Queer Clergywomen Thriving in the South February–August 2022 Cohort The Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South (RCWMS) is seeking applicants for Queer […]

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To Share This Land: Reflections on Native American Heritage Month

November 13, 2021 by Marya McNeish 1 Comment

“To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.”― Robin Wall Kimmerer In honor of Native American Heritage month, RCWMS lifts up the words of indigenous […]

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Meinrad Craighead Lectures Welcome Us to the Mystery of Her World

November 10, 2021 by Amy Dosser (Kellum) Leave a Comment

I have a real treat for you. For the last year or so, I’ve been working with the tapes of Meinrad Craighead’s lectures that I recorded long ago. We have […]

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Farewell and Thank You to Anita McLeod Fellow Rachel Sauls

August 5, 2021 by Jeanette Stokes, Marya McNeish, and Rebecca Welper 4 Comments

Two years ago when we were hiring RCWMS Anita McLeod interns, a reference check for Rachel Sauls said, “I don’t really have time to talk right now. Just hire her. […]

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2021 Essay Contest – Deadline July 31!

July 20, 2021 by Marya McNeish 2 Comments

RCWMS is committed to supporting women as they find their voices and make them heard. In addition to our writing classes, workshops, and retreats, we run an essay contest in most […]

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Disability Pride Month and the Outdoors

July 16, 2021 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

July is Disability Pride Month. I’ve been interested for some time in creating ways for those with less economic or physical privilege to access the outdoors. Unpeeling my own layers […]

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Meinrad Craighead Lectures from Erdahaus Now Live

July 8, 2021 by Amy Dosser (Kellum) Leave a Comment

 “It is human to fear loneliness, but dangerous to confuse loneliness with solitude. In solitude one crosses a threshold. Crossing thresholds always involves risk. There may be something on the […]

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Kimberley

June 23, 2021 by Kimberley Pierce Cartwright Leave a Comment

Today’s guest blog post is written by Kimberley Pierce Cartwright. A longtime friend of the Resource Center, Kimberley has recently taught Zoom classes for RCWMS in which she teaches participants […]

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Reclaiming Health After Trauma

June 16, 2021 by Solita Denard Leave a Comment

Today’s guest blog post is written by former RCWMS trustee, Solita Denard. Solita is a certified integrative health coach, and she is currently volunteering in support of the RCWMS program […]

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Tulsa

May 26, 2021 by Jeanette Stokes 1 Comment

I grew up white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a doctor father and a homemaker mother. As a child, I was mostly unaware of social justice issues and thought life in […]

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Earth Day 2021

April 20, 2021 by Marya McNeish 1 Comment

“Trophic cascade…is the biological term for the cascade of change that happens when you introduce or remove a top predator from the food chain.” – Camille Dungy* In the title […]

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