Hi beloveds, I hope this message finds you well or at least well enough. March was a busy month so I thought it would be great to spend April telling […]
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Contemplation, Community, and the Illusion of Control: Reflections from A Black Mystic
Hi beloveds, Words have been difficult for me lately. My life is words and yet for a few weeks now words have been a deep struggle for me as our […]
Space and Time–Quilting Afrofuturism
From June 19-21, 2025, African American quilters will gather in Durham, NC, for Kindred Spirits: A Convergence of African Quilters. The theme for the conference is Space and Time–Quilting Afrofuturism. […]
Resourced to Be A Resource: Creating a World Where ALL Can Thrive
Hi beloveds, In early December I was asked to deliver the homily for a Blue Christmas worship service. Blue Christmas gatherings, typically held on the winter solstice night, were created […]
Seeking Applicants for Queer Divinity Students Thriving in the South
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 […]
Tell It Anyway: Sacred Stories and gOD-Talk
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 […]
Stars Will Guide You Home
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 […]
Reflections on Suffering: A Cross Disciplinary Conversation
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 […]
The Cave
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 […]
Dancing with Fire
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 […]
With Our Hands: Quilting Communities that Flourish
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.
A Few Thoughts on Boxes, Blackness, and Belonging
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 […]
Finding Our Way
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 […]
Full Circle
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 […]
I Am What I Am
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 […]
Kimberley Pierce Cartwright Has A New Website!
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, […]
2024 Essay Contest – Deadline June 30!
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, […]
Our Bodies: Ourselves – Thoughts on Writing by Liddy Grantland
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 […]
Prehistoric Cornwall
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 […]
Japanese Tea Gathering at Duke Gardens
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 […]
Call for 2024 & 2025 Interns
RCWMS is currently seeking applicants for 2024–2025 RCWMS Anita McLeod Internships! APPLY HERE(Google sign-in required) The Resource Center for Women* and Ministry in the South (RCWMS) is offering paid, part-time […]
Path to the Sea: About the Art of MJ Sharp
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 […]
Thank You!
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 […]
Introducing Our 2024 Artist-in-Residence: MJ Sharp
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 […]