
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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Held Fast in a Fearful World
This was written for Coraopolis Presbyterian Church and you can listen to it on their YouTube channel. Sermon: “Held Fast in a Fearful World” Our scripture this morning picks up exactly where we left off on Easter. John 20:19-31 Later—after the tomb was found empty,after Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene,after she proclaimed the good news…
Psalm 100 (2025-2026A)
Sing a joyful noise to the Beloved all peoples of the earth!Serve Love with a glad heart!Join hands in the great Dance of Life!Know that the Beloved of your heart is the Divine Presence!Love created us, and we belong to the Most High;We are born to be loving, expressions of the Creator’s Divine Plan.Open the…
Psalm 34 (2025-2026A)
I will bless the Beloved at all times; a song of praise will I sing.My soul speaks to the Beloved continually let all who suffer hear and be glad.O, open your hearts, friends, that your pain and loneliness be turned to Love;And then, we shall rejoice in the Beloved together!When I searched for Love, the…