And I Mean to Be One Too: Saints for Young Clergy Women
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November First is All Saints’ Day. My mom, also clergy, always used the holiday to explain to us that there is a little saint in all of us. “Let me show you what a saint looks like,” she would say, and hold up a mirror. Within each of us, she was saying, is the ability to reflect the presence of God to one another in such a way we can help us all to create a more beautiful world.
Fidelia writer and Church in the Wild pastor Rev. Corey Turnpenny explained her church, one that is not from a tradition of saint canonization normally, has Wild Saints: “We started sainting people who we as a community look up to and want to emulate. They’re not perfect, they haven’t necessarily performed miracles, and aren’t always even dead. Wild Saints are people our community wants to lift up for their contributions to the world…” I wondered who young clergywomen would want to lift up for their contributions. I asked young clergywomen (ycw) in our Facebook group and our Fidelia team to share about those saints, and what follows is a (non-exhaustive) selection of those we want to emulate:
