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 130 (2025-2026A)
Out of the depths I cry to You!In your Mercy, hear my voice!May you be attentive to the voice of my supplications!If You should number the times we stray from You, O Beloved, who could face You?Yet You are ever-ready to forgive, that we might be healed.I wait for You, my soul waits, for in you…
Psalm 23 (2025-2026A)
O My Beloved, You are my shepherd, I shall not want;You bring me to green pastures for rest and lead me beside still waters renewing my spirit;You restore my soul.You lead me in the path of goodness to follow Love’s way.Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I am not afraid;You are…
Living Water in the Wilderness
Written for The Presbyterian Church of Coraopolis this sermon can be viewed on their youtube channel. Living Water in the Wilderness John 4:5–42 | Psalm 95 | Exodus 17 Life has a way of reminding us that we are thirsty. Not the kind of thirst you fix with a glass of water. The deeper kind. The…
Period Pastor Pad 