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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Restoring Sight
Written for The Presbyterian Church of Coraopolis this sermon can be viewed on their youtube channel. This week the recording was made at the Saturday service 30@6. John 9:1–41 | Psalm 23 Sometimes the hardest thing to change is not our circumstances. It’s the way we see the world. We get used to things being a certain way.We get used to the stories we tell about why things are the way they are.We get used to the explanations that help us feel like life makes sense. And then something happens that challenges the way we see. That’s what happens in today’s Gospel. In John’s Gospel, Jesus heals a man who has been blind since birth. But the writer of the Gospel doesn’t call this a miracle. He calls it a sign. A sign is a story that points beyond itself.It points toward a deeper truth about who Jesus is. This sign isn’t just about restoring sight. It’s about changing how people see the world, how they understand God, and how they treat one another. Interestingly, the actual healing takes up only a few moments in the story. Most of the chapter focuses on what happens afterward. How people react.How they argue.How they struggle to understand what has happened. And how the man himself comes to recognize who Jesus really is. At the beginning of the story, people are trying to answer a familiar question. Someone asks Jesus, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” It’s a question people have asked for centuries. If someone suffers, someone must be responsible. If something goes wrong, someone must have done something wrong. But Jesus refuses that way of thinking. He says the man’s blindness was not caused by sin. In that moment, Jesus dismantles a powerful assumption.…
Psalm 118 (2025-2026A)
We give thanks to You, O Beloved, for You are kind;your steadfast Love endures forever!Let every nation proclaim, “Your steadfast Love endures forever!”Let all the people cry, “Your steadfast Love endures forever!”Let those who reverence You sing, “Your steadfast Love endures forever!”Out of my distress I called upon You; You answered me, setting me on a…
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…
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