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OUTLOOK: “In lockdown, my church cannot fulfill its calling — just when we need it most.” by Beth Waltemath for The Washington Post, Post Everything, May 19, 2020.

( Churches are among the riskiest place to congregate during the pandemic. As a pastor, I consider the moral toll of not being able to gather to witness to God’s mercy and justice among growing evidence of disparities.)

OPINION: “We Will Need New Ways to Grieve” by Beth Waltemath for The New York Times, The Sunday Review, April 5, 2020. (After presiding over our church’s memorial for a friend, I realized I’d need my own ritual to mark the loss.)

ESSAY: “Beyond Bye Bye Baby: A Mother Considers the Hard-Earned Lessons of the NICU,” by Beth Waltemath for Chapter 16.org, August 13, 2010

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Chapter16 is an online literary publication funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities, covering literary events and figures in Tennessee and producing content for local newspapers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville

CLASSES: Writing in Community Together: An Online Workshop, Devotional Writing, An Online Course and Writer’s Collective, and Writing for Publication with a Spiritual Voice, An In-Person Workshop. Faith and Fiction: Using Literature as a Resource in Life and Work (in development, 2021). Classes were developed in partnership with The Center for Lifelong Learning. Look to their website for enchore offerings or below for new online courses through this website.

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The Center for Lifelong Learning hosts enrichment classes in spirituality and religion in person and online.

Beth approaches her work with a tender joyfulness, encouraging writers to find their voice through her keen appreciation for the courage it takes to do work as artists, the blessing and gift that is the act of embodied creativity.

I am grateful to Beth for the work we have done together and encourage others to work with her to create their own breakthroughs into creating and writing the work they have dreamed of offering.

Melissa Tidwell
Author of Embodied Light: Advent Reflections on Incarnation

Beth is a wonderful friend to write with, as a partner in collaboration, as a keenly intelligent editor, as a writing coach. She offers a fine-tuned ear for what makes language sing, and a steel-trap mind for helping writers find the essence of their message and convey it with heart and skill.

Melissa Tidwell
Author of Embodied Light: Advent Reflections on Incarnation

Beth’s encouragement and insight nurtures fearlessness in the writing process. Her guidance pushed me creatively, and formed my writing as a meaningful spiritual practice.

Allison Arsenault
Experience Design Manager Forum for Theological Exploration

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