RCWMS is seeking applicants for the Queer Divinity Students Thriving in the South January–April 2025 Cohort The Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South (RCWMS) is seeking applicants… Continue reading

Hi beloveds, On Friday, October 18, 2024, the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice and the National Museum of African American History and Culture invited members of the… Continue reading

Editor’s Note: Amber Sayer is one of the three winners of the RCWMS 2024 Essay Contest, selected for her awe-inspiring reflection on the theme of darkness and night, inspired by… Continue reading

Hi beloveds, On Sunday, September 29, the Resource Center’s Artist in Residence, M.J. Sharp, gathered us together to discuss something people rarely gather to talk about voluntarily: suffering. As we… Continue reading

Editor’s Note: Rainbow Medicine-Walker is one of the three winners of the RCWMS 2024 Essay Contest, selected for her awe-inspiring reflection on the theme of darkness and night, inspired by… Continue reading

Editor’s Note: Keeka May is one of the three winners of the RCWMS 2024 Essay contest, selected for her compelling reflection on the theme of darkness and night, inspired by… Continue reading

As many of you know, a few weeks ago we hosted the Jereann King Johnson Documentary Fundraising Event a few weeks ago at The Fruit. It was a beautiful evening. In conversation with Dr. Chelsea Yarborough over dinner, I thought she raised a poignant reflection about the connections between quilting and community. I hope you will find some illumination from our conversation that I recorded in a moment of spontaneity below. 

Hi friends, In the midst of so much shift and change in our nation, in our world and possibly in your own world, I do hope this message finds you… Continue reading

It was still dark when we pulled into NewFoundland Gap that morning. A sign in the middle of the parking lot announced where North Carolina met Tennessee. We wanted to… Continue reading

Editor’s note: Rachel Sauls began her time with RCWMS in January 2020, moments before the pandemic began. Instead of her planned one semester with us, she continued through a gap… Continue reading

Hello beloveds, It is my joy to join the RCWMS team in the capacity of Theologian in Residence. As I consider an initial post in this new role I recalled… Continue reading

The Resource Center is thrilled to share the news of the launch of our friend Kimberley Pierce Cartwright’s new website. Together with web design wizard Carol Thomson, of FireStream Media,… Continue reading

RCWMS is committed to supporting women (trans and cis) and nonbinary folks as they find their voices and make them heard. In addition to our writing classes, workshops, and retreats,… Continue reading

Editor’s note: RCWMS Special Assistant to the Executive Director Rachel Sauls recently asked RCWMS trustee and former Anita McLeod Intern Liddy Grantland to reflect on her writing practice. Read Liddy’s… Continue reading

This post is the second of a series as 2024 RCWMS Artist-in-Residence MJ Sharp contemplates her photographic archive. Stay tuned for more!! In 2021/2022 I had the privilege of spending… Continue reading

Join RCWMS on April 5, 2024 for a traditional Japanese tea gathering with Host Chizuko Sueyoshi. Nestled in the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum at Duke Gardens, the teahouse was built in… Continue reading

Solitary Sheep Forty-minute exposure by moonlight near Wick, Scotland (on the North Sea)2010Part of a project to photograph by the winter moon in Scotland, terminating at the Standing Stones of… Continue reading

Thank you to everyone who donated to our year-end fundraising campaign. Your generous gifts surpassed our $45,000 goal—we ended up raising $68,000! We can’t thank you enough. Your donations will… Continue reading

RCWMS is so pleased to officially welcome MJ Sharp as our 2024 artist-in-residence! Co-sponsored by RCWMS and The Fruit, MJ will be working with previously unseen material from past decades as… Continue reading