Upcoming Events

With a special emphasis on Japanese, Chinese, and Middle Eastern poetry, this four-session workshop offers a chance to explore, read, and even try your own hand at poetry from outside of familiar European traditions. The class will include a look at tanka, haiku, and zuihitsu (“follow the brush”) from Japan, landscape painting and poetry from China, and Ghazals from the Persian/Urdu tradition. For each tradition there will be a particular focus  on women poets, and on the ties between poetry…

We continue our Coffee and Conversation series with Lisa Baron this month. Feel free to  join even if you didn't have a chance to be part of the September session.  October 8: How Can I Get Better at Living in The Moment? This is easier for some of us than others.  Getting better at this requires us to be more flexible, lower our expectations of ourselves and others, and go with the flow more.  November 12: Holidays During A Pandemic…

Mark your calendar and plan to join us October 15-16, 2020  for the 9th annual Homegrown: NC Women's Preaching Festival. This year's preachers and presenters include Donyelle McCray, Chelsea Yarborough, Karen Ziegler, Maddy Reyes, Margie Quinn, Chelsea Yarborough, Deborah Williams, Grace Hackney, and Angie Hong. Our Vision: We believe hundreds of clergywomen in North Carolina are faithfully and creatively engaging in ministries where they proclaim the Word of God, week after week. In an ecumenical spirit of love and collegiality,…

Self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural…

In this final session of our fall Coffee and Conversation series with Lisa Baron we'll discuss Holidays During A Pandemic. Feel free to  join even if you didn't have a chance to be part of the previous sessions.  For many of us, the holidays this year will look very different than previous years.  Travel plans may be changed, the loss of not seeing loved ones may be more strongly felt.   Let’s talk about how to navigate this season, developing…

Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism,…

Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism,…