
Rev. Karie Ann Charlton is a PCUSA pastor, writer, and menstrual health advocate. She volunteers with Days for Girls International, providing menstrual health kits and education.
Karie would love to talk to your employer about being a period positive workplace. She is also available to speak with volunteer organizations about period poverty and all of the ways we can advocate for access to menstrual health education and menstrual products.
Pastor Karie is available to preach or speak about how she connects her faith to volunteering, giving, and community engagement. She is also available to lead workshops or retreats. Pastor Karie loves to work in interfaith/multi-faith spaces focusing on how we can unite for social justice and for respectful relationship.
Contact her to book a speaking engagement for any community group, school, or religious organization.
Read her work published in Presbyterian Outlook
Listen to her guest appearance on Spirited Animation to discuss Pixar’s Turning Red! And menstruation, ministry, and mother-daughter relationships.
Read about the period pastor in Fidelia, The Young Clergy Women magazine or in cartoon form in Public Source
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Psalm 133 (2025-2026A)
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters dwell in unity!It is like vistas seen from atop a mountain one has climbed …Or like the stillness of a sunset after a long day’s work.It is like a shimmering rainbow, breaking through a summer rain.When men and women dwell in harmony, the star…
Psalm 85 (2025-2026A)
O Beloved, how gracious You are to your people;You restore their souls time and time again.You forgive their distractions when they wander far from You; You give them new Life.Yes, You bless them and raise up new hope; You awaken their hearts to love.Restore us again, O Spirit of Truth; burn us with the refining Fire…
Psalm 17 (2025-2026A)
Listen to my heart, O Love Divine; heart the cry within me!Heed my prayer form lips that would utter truth! For in You do I seek justice!Be Thou my eyes that I may see with clarity.If You try my heart, if You visit me by night, if You test me, You will discoverMy only desire…