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 114 (2025-2026A)
Come, all you who have wandered far from the path,who have separated yourselves from Love;A banquet is prepared for you in the heart’s Secret Room.There you will find the way Home;a welcome awaits you!Even as you acknowledge the times you have erred,the forgiveness of the Beloved will envelop you.Call upon the Beloved when fear arises;when…
Resurrection (Lazarus, a sign about Who Jesus is)
Written for The Presbyterian Church of Coraopolis for March 21st and 22nd 2026. This sermon can be viewed on their website and youtube channel. Sunday Morning John 11:1-53 Opening One of the hardest things to live withis the feeling that God has arrived too late. That if things had gone just a little differently—if help…
Psalm 31 (2025-2026A)
In You, Beloved, I would make my home;Though I be humiliated with guilt, Your mercy and forgiveness will deliver me!Hear me and hasten to my assistance!For You are my strength and have the power to raise me up!Yes, You are strength and truth to me;You are my teacher, my guide; the Fire of your abiding…
Period Pastor Pad 