Katy Shedlock is an ordained elder in the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Methodist Church. She copastors Creators’ Table at the West Central Abbey, an ecumenical church plant she helped start in 2018. Katy is a slam poet, MFA candidate in poetry at Eastern Washington University, and theater artist. Her poetry has been published in the Inlander and Spokesman-Review, and she is a contributor to the forthcoming anthology Without a Doubt: Poems Illuminating Faith from New York Quarterly.
That we mainline denominational Christians face a crisis in the ways we have ordered ourselves is no secret. That the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated church closures and clergy burnout is no secret. And while everyone in the mainline church has been saying for quite some time that we cannot keep doing things the way we’ve […]
