Contributors

Pastor Becca Ehrlich is an ELCA pastor who is a trained coach and serves on the ELCA Coaching Leadership Team. She currently serves as Associate Dean for Community Life at General Theological Seminary in New York City. She blogs about minimalism from a Christian perspective at www.christianminimalism.com. Her book, Christian Minimalism: Simple Steps for Abundant…

Christine Aroney-Sine is a contemplative activist, passionate gardener, author, and liturgist. Christine loves messing with spiritual traditions and inspiring followers of Jesus to develop creative approaches to spirituality that intertwine the sacred through all of life. She is the founder and facilitator for the popular contemplative blog godspacelight.com. Her most recent book is “The Gift…

Lyndsey Medford is a writer and speaker living with a rare autoimmune disorder in the American South. She is the author of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, now available for pre-order. When she’s not writing, she’s on her porch with friends or hiking with her…

The Rev. Elizabeth Bagioni Brandt is an Episcopal priest, and will complete her doctorate in clinical psychology in August 2022. She will begin a post-doc fellowship in Neuropsychology in the VA Health System in New England. In addition to a number of posts in professional chaplaincy, she has served a number of hearing churches on…

Theresa Newell has been a foster parent, adoptive parent, and biological parent to six children. She lives with her family near Seattle, Washington and is a postulant for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.

Dr. Amy Kenny is author of “My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church” (Brazos Press, 2022)

Gina Lotzer has been at Luther Seminary for three years serving as the Executive Assistant to the President. She lives in St. Paul, where she was born and raised. She has two wonderful daughters and is also blessed to be Nonna to a grandson, Henry.

Rev. Susan K. Engholm is a Lutheran (ELCA) pastor and spiritual director. She lives in the exurbs of Minneapolis with her husband and their small but bossy dog, Beverly.

Pastor Mort Meyenburg has served as an interim pastor in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA.

Rachel Twigg is a spiritual director, retreat guide and a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. You can learn more about her, including how to connect with her on social media, at her website www.revracheltwigg.com. When she’s not working she can often be found drinking coffee, walking her dog, or doing both at the…

Sarah Driver has worked for 20+ years at local, state, and international levels on a range of justice issues from education reform and gender equality to human trafficking and spiritual abuse. She has also studied scripture with this lens for the past two decades. Sarah has lived and worked on four continents and holds a…

Pastor Peter Johnson lives in Southeastern MN, where he serves as pastor at Moscow Lutheran Church in rural Austin, MN. He spends most of his time with his lovely wife Heidi, raising and parenting their extremely active, medically complex sons, Jakobe (6) and Thunder Luke(5). He is passionate about special needs parenting, adoption, and the…

Rev. Jealaine Marple (she/her) is the interim pastor at First Lutheran Church in Mission Hills, KS. She enjoys time with her family, the dog (just the one…the other is shady), podcasts, and cheering on local sports teams. She’s been sober for 1,298 days…so far.

Lee Ann M. Pomrenke is an ELCA pastor and digital content editor for The Faith+Leader. Rev. Pomrenke is the author of Embodied: Clergy Women and the Solidarity of a Mothering God (Church Publishing, Inc, 2020). She also blogs at leeannpomrenke.com.

Rev. Dr. Kathryn G. N. Campbell is a wife, mother of 2, and friend. Outside the home, she serves as Pastor at Fellowship Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she rarely identifies it as “Fellowship Presbyterian Church” but, instead, her “Fellowship Family.” She loves to hang out with her family and friends, cook, and…