Jun 15, 2010 | Encouraging Words
When I was four years old, my family moved from Atlanta, Georgia, after my dad finished Georgia Tech, to Columbia, South Carolina, where he began his first engineering job. My parents had been raised in Baptist churches and when they arrived in Columbia, they begin...
Jun 9, 2010 | +Pam Durso, The BWIM Book Club
Seems like I have made lots of friends in the last year. Working for Baptist Women in Ministry, well, it has opened doors to wonderful new friendships, including a friendship with Susan Sparks. Susan is the pastor of Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York. It makes...
Jun 3, 2010 | Being a Minister
Today, my “This Is What a Preacher Looks Like” T-shirt journeyed with me to the gym. I woke up this morning knowing that today was the day and wondering if I had it in me. I have never been a runner. My body is not really built to be running around, but about a...
Jun 1, 2010 | Challenges in Calling
As a newlywed in the late 1950s, I enrolled at Southern Theological Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in order to become a good “pew person” as my minister husband became a pastor. His income from serving a country church and our meager expenses allowed me the...
