Marya McNeish

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

 “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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]