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Rev. Dr. Katherine Willis Pershey Guest Preaching Rev. Dr. Katherine Willis Pershey is the Co-Pastor at First Congregational United Church of Christ, in Appleton, WI. Rev. Pershey received her Master of Divinity degree from the Claremont School of Theology in California. She recently completed a Doctor of Ministry degree on the theme Holy Presence: Eugene Peterson and the Pastoral Imagination from Western Theological Seminary in Michigan. She was the solo pastor of South Bay Christian Church for five years and served as Associate Pastor of The First Congregational Church of Western Springs for fourteen years. Katherine is a member of the Board of The Christian Century and is also a regular contributor to the magazine. She is the author of Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family and Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity. She completed yoga teacher training in 2018, and is certified through YogaDevotion to teach faith-integrated yoga. Katherine and her husband, Ben are raising two teenage children.
Episode #16 of Rewrite Radio features a conversation between five memoirists about the appeal of memoir, its relationship to the practice of sharing testimonies of faith, and how both have created room for women's voices in religious spaces. Titled "Memoir as Feminist Testimony," this panel featured Amy Julia Becker, Jessica Mesman Griffith, Alison Hodgson, Katherine Willis Pershey, and Rachel Marie Stone. Amy Julia Becker writes and speaks about family, faith, disability, and culture. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, she is the author of Penelope Ayers: A Memoir, Why I am Both Spiritual and Religious, What Every Woman Needs to Know about Prenatal Testing. She has also authored and A Good and Perfect Gift, a spiritual memoir on battling the culture of perfection while raising a child with Down syndrome, and a parenting memoir called Small Talk: Learning From My Children About What Matters Most. You can learn more about her work at amyjuliabecker.com. Jessica Mesman Griffith is a widely published essayist and the co-author with Amy Andrews of the memoir Love & Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters, winner of the 2014 Christopher Award. She has also authored Strange Journey and Grace Filled Days and co-authored Daily Inspiration for Women, and has a forthcoming memoir on her childhood called Eden Isles. A cultural columnist for US Catholic Magazine, she also runs a blog called Sick Pilgrim for Christians struggling with spiritual darkness, and helps organize the Trying to Say God literary festival. You can learn more about her work at jessicamesman.com. Alison Hodgson, author of The Pug List: A Ridiculous Dog, a Family Who Lost Everything and How They All Found Their Way Home, is a Moth StorySLAM chaption and a regular contributor to Houzz.com. Her writing has been featured on Christianity Today’s Her.meneutics, Religion News Service, Forbes.com, and published with Baker Publishing Group and Zondervan. She is a co-founder of Breathe Christian Writers Conference and a member of Ink: A Creative Collective. Find out more about Alison and her work at alisonhodgson.net. Katherine Willis Pershey is an Associate Minister of First Congregational Church in Western Springs, Illinois and the author of Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family and a recently released book called Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity. She has written essays, devotionals, and commentaries for several publications and anthologies and regularly contributes to The Christian Century and the TheArtofSimple.net. Learn more about her work at katherinewillispershey.com. Rachel Marie Stone is the author of Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food, winner of the Christianity Today Christian Living book award. She has also authored The Unexpected Way, and worked extensively on More-With-Less, the classic Mennonite cookbook. She is a regular contributor to Her.meneutics, Christianity Today, Sojourners, Books & Culture, The Huffington Post, The Christian Century, the Suffolk Times, PRISM, The Progressive Christian, Creation Care Magazine, and Flourish Magazine. You can find Rachel on Twitter at @rachel_m_stone, and learn more about her work at rachelmariestone.com.
Rev. Katherine Willis Pershey and I talked about sex. Sure, we talked about other things, but when one writes a book called, Very Married: Field Notes on Love & Fidelity, sex is going to be part of the conversation. In fact, it was most of the conversation. Katherine and I talked about: Premarital sex Healthy […]
On Episode 74 of the Mama Bear Dares Podcast, Tesi and Leslie talk to Katherine Willis Pershey, a mother, pastor, thinker, and author, about what it's like to feel the temptation of an extra-marital affair and then process that temptation within her relationship to her husband, her children, her church, and the larger world. The three women—each of whom has been married to their respective spouses for approximately 14 years—discuss our culture and how it impacts the way we live out our vows. Tesi and Leslie listen as Katherine opens up about her near-infidelity, about the hard work of marriage and the beauty and challenge of a sacred covenant, and the healing and growing process that resulted in an honest, candid book called Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity. For complete Show Notes, visit www.mamabeardarespodcast.com.
Feeling rested (or maybe lethargic) Matt and Adam are back for the second season of Technicolor Jesus! This week we welcome Katherine Willis Pershey, author of Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity, to the show. What do you get when you mix a beloved Victorian novel with a young auteur hopped on the Wizard of Oz, Annie, and Tim Burton movies? You get Alfonso Cuaron's 1995 film, A Little Princess. On this weeks show we discuss the power of storytelling, the delight of a great film meal, and how we might more faithfully celebrate World Communion Sunday. So find your inner princess and get ready, it's another episode of Technicolor Jesus. Intro: 20th Century Fox Fail (www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNrKAzHsp0g) Outro: Prince, Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
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