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,… Continue reading
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2022 Essay Contest – Deadline July 31!
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… Continue reading
Choice
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… Continue reading
Love Song
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… Continue reading
Seeking applicants for the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 RCWMS Anita McLeod Internship
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… Continue reading
Celebrate Women Artists on SWAN Day
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… Continue reading
In Memory of Merle Boyd (1944-2022)
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… Continue reading
Introducing Our 2022 Artist-in-Residence: Kimberley Pierce Cartwright
RCWMS is so pleased to officially welcome Kimberley Pierce Cartwright as our artist-in-residence! A quilter, folk art painter, writer, entrepreneur, and journalist, Cartwright grew up in Hallsboro, NC. She began… Continue reading
Thank You!
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… Continue reading
She Taught Us How to Experience the Light: In Memory of Sue Sneddon
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… Continue reading
Meet the 2022 Queer Clergywomen Thriving in the South Leadership Team
RCWMS is thrilled to announce Rev. Katie Ricks as the Facilitator and Tsharre Sanders as the Program Manager for the 2022 cohort of Queer Clergywomen Thriving in the South, a… Continue reading
A Review of Flesh & Bones: Learning to Love This Body
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… Continue reading
Anita McLeod Fall Intern Mary Coffman Reflects on a Sabbatical Season
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… Continue reading
Seeking Cohort Applicants for 2022 Queer Clergywomen Thriving in the South
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… Continue reading
To Share This Land: Reflections on Native American Heritage Month
“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… Continue reading
Meinrad Craighead Lectures Welcome Us to the Mystery of Her World
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… Continue reading
Bitter Magic Book Review
Recently I was lucky to get my hands on a copy of Nancy Kilgore’s latest novel, Bitter Magic (in 2011 RCWMS published her novel Sea Level). I’ve long been fascinated… Continue reading
Farewell and Thank You to Anita McLeod Fellow Rachel Sauls
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…. Continue reading
2021 Essay Contest – Deadline July 31!
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… Continue reading
Disability Pride Month and the Outdoors
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… Continue reading
Meinrad Craighead Lectures from Erdahaus Now Live
“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… Continue reading
Kimberley
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… Continue reading
Reclaiming Health After Trauma
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… Continue reading
Tulsa
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… Continue reading