The ship has run aground — let’s find a new way
Karie Charlton offers three words of advice to churches charting a new path.
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Where do clergy find belonging?
If clergy help to create a space of belonging for others, where do we find belonging ourselves, wonders Karie Charlton?
“I don’t know who you are, but I know that I love you”
Karie Charlton writes about grief, dementia. and love.
Traveling grace
Karie Charlton offers some advice for those planning a pilgrimage, including words of wisdom from her uncle, a Jesuit brother.
Be gentle with yourself this Epiphany season
Maybe the ordinary and divine comingle like coffee with cream.
Hope is a shape-shifter
Can hope be a thing with feathers? A determined woman who won't stay down? The application of special face lotion? Karie Charlton says it is all these things and more.
An Advent with grit
This Advent, Karie Charlton turns to biblical women with stories that are brutal and beautiful, and messy and good.
A prayer for beauty, truth and goodness
Karie Charlton shares the short prayer that buoyed her spirits as a music teacher at a Catholic school and continues to shape her today.
“You don’t look like a pastor”
Rev. Karie Charlton shares how she claims space as a female pastor.
Books we love: Practically Divine
Rev. Karie Charlton shares how a book by Becca Stevens, founder of Thistle Farms, helped her to claim the holiness of female wisdom and arts and crafts.