Curiosity over fear: Healing body and soul at an onsen
A visit to a public bath in Japan led to unexpected healing for Karie Charlton.
Karie Charlton is a PCUSA pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the leader of the Pittsburgh Chapter of Days for Girls. You can find more of her writing in her blog, www.periodpastor.com, or by following her on Facebook and Instagram @periodpastor.
A visit to a public bath in Japan led to unexpected healing for Karie Charlton.
Sometimes, you have to say goodbye to something full of potential, writes Karie Charlton.
Karie Charlton and her husband Kurtis used their summer travel to engage mindfulness. "We aren't in a hurry," they would remind each other.
Karie Charlton finds new depths to hospitality during a silent retreat.
Karie Charlton helps a colleague create a Jewish prayer shawl and reflects on interfaith friendship and lessons of kindness.
What does it mean to be a pastor without a church? What does it mean to be a church without a pastor? Karie Charlton reflects.
Looking at Psalm 121, Karie Charlton reflects that we are all called to respond to each other and participate in the Universal Heart.
In the woods, writes Karie Charlton, we find doors to new beginnings, even in the depths of winter.
When selecting books, Karie Charlton typically picks what she should be reading — usually a book for work. Whether it’s a book crawl or pretending she’s a kid at a Scholastic Book Fair, here are some ways she’s trying to read for fun.
Reflecting on the 1984 fantasy film “The Neverending Story,” Karie Charlton shares her decision to dissolve her call.
Karie Charlton offers three words of advice to churches charting a new path.
If clergy help to create a space of belonging for others, where do we find belonging ourselves, wonders Karie Charlton?
Karie Charlton writes about grief, dementia. and love.
Karie Charlton offers some advice for those planning a pilgrimage, including words of wisdom from her uncle, a Jesuit brother.
Maybe the ordinary and divine comingle like coffee with cream.
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.
This Advent, Karie Charlton turns to biblical women with stories that are brutal and beautiful, messy and good.
Karie Charlton shares the short prayer that buoyed her spirits as a music teacher at a Catholic school and continues to shape her today.
Rev. Karie Charlton shares how she claims space as a female pastor.
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.
Karie Charlton, the associate pastor of Third Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shares how the Spirit is moving in their congregation.
A poem by Karie Charlton.
Holy Week is going to look much different this year. In many ways, it will be a more joyful celebration. My congregation..
Beloved… Beloved, awaken my soul to your calming presence. AHH! I am NOT CALM! Beloved, I have run out of words. Really,..
Third Church called me in 2014 with the understanding that part of my work would be to redevelop mission and community outreach...
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