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SUMMARY:HOMEGROWN: NC Women's Preaching Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s NC Women’s Preaching Festival\, where our theme\, “Digging Deep and Rising Up\,” reflects on the wisdom of Esther (Esther 4:14-16) and the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:39). \nWe believe hundreds of Christian 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\, we will lift up the voices of local clergywomen (trans/cis) to encourage and inspire; share and learn; and hone our craft. Together\, we will hear wonderful preaching from conference attendees and have time for group conversations on the art of proclamation in all its forms. We will pray\, worship\, and celebrate together. \nLocation: Trinity Ave. Presbyterian Church\, Durham\, NC \nCost: $25-$125  (Price doesn’t include lodging) \nLodging: Recommended Hotels in the area include: 21c Museum Hotel Durham\, Aloft Durham Downtown\, SpringHill Suites by Marriott – Durham City View\, Residence Inn by Marriott – Durham McPherson/Duke Medical\, and The King’s Daughters Inn. (Airbnb suggestion: 807 West Trinity Ave. Pearl Mill Flats) \nFor full details about the festival\, please visit ncwomenpreaching.com. Contact us directly at info@rcwms.org with any questions.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/homegrown-nc-womens-preaching-festival-2025/
LOCATION:Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church\, 927 W Trinity Ave\, Durham\, NC\, West Trinity Avenue\, Durham\, North Carolina\, 27701\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cancer Writing Circle
DESCRIPTION:Join a weekly gathering of fellow travelers undergoing treatment for cancer to write to prompts provided for timed intervals. No writing experience is necessary. This series is designed to provide a supportive environment to develop a creative practice of reflective writing. While we will talk about the writing and our experience of writing\, this is not a writing class or a cancer support group. That said\, participants are likely to gain greater clarity regarding their life experiences and our writing is likely to improve with practice. \nThe structure and format of the series is informed by James Pennebaker’s Write to Heal and Suleika Jaouad’s bestselling book\, The Book of Alchemy\, both of which affirm the power of writing to heal. There is no requirement to purchase these books to participate. However\, reading these authors will provide you with a deeper context for the prompts and may inspire you to dig deeper.  \nThis circle is inspired by Brenda Ulyend’s book\, If You Want to Write\, which posits everyone is a writer. No one will be required to read or share their work. Volunteers will be invited to share excerpts of their writing every session.  \nSix Mondays in a row beginning on October 6\, 2025. \nFacilitators: Chris McLeod is a writer living with metastatic breast cancer who is eager to create a community of cancer patients interested in developing a writing practice. RCWMS trustee Liddy Grantland is a writer\, published author\, and a social work student living with metastatic breast cancer.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/cancer-writing-circle/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cancer Writing Circle- Week 2
DESCRIPTION:Join a weekly gathering of fellow travelers undergoing treatment for cancer to write to prompts provided for timed intervals. No writing experience is necessary. This series is designed to provide a supportive environment to develop a creative practice of reflective writing. While we will talk about the writing and our experience of writing\, this is not a writing class or a cancer support group. That said\, participants are likely to gain greater clarity regarding their life experiences and our writing is likely to improve with practice. \nThe structure and format of the series is informed by James Pennebaker’s Write to Heal and Suleika Jaouad’s bestselling book\, The Book of Alchemy\, both of which affirm the power of writing to heal. There is no requirement to purchase these books to participate. However\, reading these authors will provide you with a deeper context for the prompts and may inspire you to dig deeper.  \nThis circle is inspired by Brenda Ulyend’s book\, If You Want to Write\, which posits everyone is a writer. No one will be required to read or share their work. Volunteers will be invited to share excerpts of their writing every session.  \nSix Mondays in a row beginning on October 6\, 2025. \nFacilitators: Chris McLeod is a writer living with metastatic breast cancer who is eager to create a community of cancer patients interested in developing a writing practice. RCWMS trustee Liddy Grantland is a writer\, published author\, and a social work student living with metastatic breast cancer.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/cancer-writing-circle-week-2/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care\, with Kim Gaubault - October 2025
DESCRIPTION: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\, it is multi-generational\, multicultural and is not finite\, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry\, in church and community. \nOctober: What Brings Me Joy/ What Brings Me Comfort \nNovember: Giving Thanks: The Grace for Failing Forward \nDecember: Laying Aside Every Weight: The Art of Shedding \nRegister for October below. \nLeader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is\, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone\, I’ve not walked in my purpose.” \nCost: $10\, $25\, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/ministry-of-black-womens-self-care-with-kim-gaubault-october-2025/
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: SOUTHERN METHODIST WOMEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE with Janet Allured
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate more than a century of Methodist women who have spoken up\, stepped out\, and stood firm in their faith to bring about change. Their stories remind us that the work of justice is not reserved for a few but is carried forward by many voices\, each adding courage and conviction to the movement for a better world. \nThe biographies in this book highlight the contributions of Methodist women—some lay and some clergy—in advocating for progressive reform from 1900 to the present. \n\nEditor: Janet Allured is a retired Professor of History and of Women’s Studies at McNeese State University and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arkansas. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications on southern women\, including Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (2009)\, and Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women’s Rights Movement in Louisiana\, 1950-1997 (2016). The subject of her talk today\, a collection of biographies entitled Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century (2025)\, is co-edited by M. Kathryn Armistead. \nPlease REGISTER for the reading by selecting a free ticket below. A Zoom link will be provided in the confirmation email.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/book-launch-southern-methodist-women-and-social-justice-by-janet-allured/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Cancer Writing Circle- Week 3
DESCRIPTION:Join a weekly gathering of fellow travelers undergoing treatment for cancer to write to prompts provided for timed intervals. No writing experience is necessary. This series is designed to provide a supportive environment to develop a creative practice of reflective writing. While we will talk about the writing and our experience of writing\, this is not a writing class or a cancer support group. That said\, participants are likely to gain greater clarity regarding their life experiences and our writing is likely to improve with practice. \nThe structure and format of the series is informed by James Pennebaker’s Write to Heal and Suleika Jaouad’s bestselling book\, The Book of Alchemy\, both of which affirm the power of writing to heal. There is no requirement to purchase these books to participate. However\, reading these authors will provide you with a deeper context for the prompts and may inspire you to dig deeper.  \nThis circle is inspired by Brenda Ulyend’s book\, If You Want to Write\, which posits everyone is a writer. No one will be required to read or share their work. Volunteers will be invited to share excerpts of their writing every session.  \nSix Mondays in a row beginning on October 6\, 2025. \nFacilitators: Chris McLeod is a writer living with metastatic breast cancer who is eager to create a community of cancer patients interested in developing a writing practice. RCWMS trustee Liddy Grantland is a writer\, published author\, and a social work student living with metastatic breast cancer.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/cancer-writing-circle-week-3/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sustaining Our Behavior Changes: A Plan and Strategies for Support with Solita Denard (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:What do you need to take the next step to improve your personal health? Join us for an integrated approach to wellness! This 4-part series is designed for individuals ready to learn in a supportive community and commit to moving toward their personal vision of health and wellbeing. Guided by Solita Denard\, participants will develop a personalized wellness plan through curated group discussions. \nIf you desire to make a positive change in one or more areas of personal health in 2025\, this series is for you. The program includes four group sessions and up to four private\, one-on-one coaching sessions tailored to each participant. \nJanuary 29: This Time Next Year: Vision\, Values and Goals.\nWhat do we want? Why do we want it? \nApril 29: Making Progress: Challenges\, Insights and New Habits.\nReflecting on the important information being offered by our specific practices toward\nbetter health. What are we learning? \nJuly 29: What Needs Attention Now? The Integrated Approach to Health.\nChecking in with ourselves and the importance of leverage. \nOctober 29: Sustaining Our Behavior Changes: A Plan and Strategies for Support.\nStanding on our strengths for forward movement. \nLeader: Solita Denard\, Health Integration 629\, LLC partners with clients as they create a vision and then take action to improve personal health through the Behavior Change process. Integrative Health Coaching supports clients in assessing 9 different areas of Health and Wellbeing. Solita will assist participants in creating a personal plan toward positive health changes with increased self-awareness. Each day Solita is reminded that supporting clients in the process of Behavior Change is sacred work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor additional information\, please contact info@rcwms.org. \nRegistration is now closed.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/sustaining-our-behavior-changes-a-plan-and-strategies-for-support-with-solita-denard-via-zoom/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exhibition as Textbook: A History of Photography with Dr. Elizabeth Howie and MJ Sharp (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Join us this fall\, starting on October 30th! Art Historian Dr. Elizabeth Howie\, and RCWMS Artist in Residence\, Photographer MJ Sharp\, will lead a four-part seminar inspired by the work on view at Duke’s Nasher Museum\, Coming into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher: \nOctober 30\, 2025 \nNovember 6\, 2025 \nNovember 13\, 2025 \nNovember 20\, 2025 \nLeaders: MJ Sharp is a photographic artist and educator based in North Carolina and is the RCWMS Artist in Residence for 2025. Dr. Elizabeth Howie is a Professor of Art History at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina. \nPhoto credit: Clockwise from top left: Bird Cage\, Reed Thomas 1979 | Untitled from Kitchen Table Series\, Carrie Mae Weems 1990|| Landscape (trees in snow)\, Tino Carretto 1960 |  Girl with Haircurlers & Mother\, Miami Tropic \, Mary Ellen Mark\, 1986
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/exhibition-as-textbook-a-history-of-photography-with-mj-sharp-via-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Writing with Research with Kristen Neuschel & Ann Marie Rasmussen (Sponsored by RCWMS)
DESCRIPTION:Writing with Research is built around a simple insight: if you feel strongly that you’ve got something to say or know there’s a problem you feel compelled to investigate\, then you are ready to start writing. Our unique contribution is to insist that writing and research proceed together\, whatever the nature of the evidence or the scope of the project. We offer encouragement and practical advice for writing with a research agenda of any kind\, including memoir and historical fiction. We aim at writers seeking wider audiences\, students\, and writers across academic and professional fields\, including science. We guide writers in the steps necessary for responsible research in today’s digital environment and share tips for meeting the challenges of sustaining writing as a satisfying practice. \nAuthors: Kristen Neuschel is Professor of History Emerita and former Director of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Ann Marie Rasmussen (Professor Emerita\, German\, Duke University) writes and teaches about the literature and culture of medieval Europe in German-speaking lands and Scandinavia. \nPlease REGISTER for the reading by selecting a free ticket below. Registrants will receive both a receipt and a separate email with a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation. Please check your spam and/or promotions folder if you don’t receive one or both of these emails. We will also be sending Zoom link reminders just before the event.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/writing-with-research-with-ann-marie-rasmussen-sponsored-by-rcwms/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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