Webinar: Aging in Spirit: A Woman’s Journey to God
This webinar features a conversation with Karen Kaigler-Walker, PhD, author of Aging in Spirit: A Woman’s Journey to God. Karen focuses on the particular needs and life experiences of women who seek to grow in Christ throughout their entire lives.
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Women Can Have It All, Just Not All at the Same Time
It is almost 60 years since Betty Friedan first started encouraging women to make choices about their lives. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique,…
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Women and Men Leading Together: A Biblical Study
I have been working full-time for almost four decades. During this time, I have had a variety of close working relationships with women, in…
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What Did God Birth in You This Year?
In December 2020, Michaela O’Donnell wrote an article called: What is God Birthing in You? in which she wondered about what the unusual year of 2020 was readying us for in 2021. In this article, she helps us consider what birthing might look like in our work and leadership as well as gives us an exercise to reflect on this as we head into a new year.
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Women Followed Jesus
The example of Jesus challenges us to find healthy, holy, and fruitful ways for men and women to share together in work environments.
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Martha’s Welcome
Sermon preached by Mark D. Roberts on April 29, 2018, at La Canada Presbyterian Church. Originally posted on La Canada PC. ShareTweet
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Beyond Sexual Harassment: Dignity
Stories of sexual harassment continue to get top billing in the news. It seems that each day another prominent man—a leader in government, entertainment,…
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Ruth the Faithful: A Survival Story
As I was recently re-reading the book of Ruth, I found myself remembering similar stories I have encountered in my own life. I thought…
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Why Passion Isn’t the Holy Grail of Work
I graduated seminary in 2011, on the heels of the Great Recession. Very few companies were hiring. In fact, many were laying people off….
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Truth in the Workplace: A Story of Resistance
When I was the Senior Pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church, a woman from my congregation – I’ll call her Rochelle – made an appointment…
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Sheroes of the Faith: What We Can Learn About Creative Resistance
“But the Midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them.” (Ex. 1: 17) Two women face an ethical…
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Gender Discrimination at Work: Faithful Resistance
I was on a panel recently that opened up with this question: As a woman, what are some of the ways you’ve been discriminated…
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Calling All Deborahs
Calling for Deborah: Investing and encouraging women leaders in the workplace It had been twenty years. Twenty years of Canaanite oppression Twenty years that…
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Women at Work: a Round Table Conversation
Michaela: What I would love to try to have here are the conversations that I feel like I’m having naturally with people everywhere right…
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Theology and Practice: Empowering Women at Work
Mark: We were asked by some really strong, competent women to have this conversation about women, work, and church and how we contribute to their…
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