
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 26 (2025-2026A)
Speak on my behalf, O Beloved, for I would choose the path that leads back Home, trusting in your love without reserve.May my heart be as your Heart; May my mind be as your Mind.May your steadfast love guide me As I live according to your Will, You, O Counselor, are my strength and my guide; so I…
Mercer County Food Bank and DfG to distribute menstrual products and education to over 4,000 students in the coming academic year
Partnership with the Mercer County Food Bank for the 2026-2027 School Year: The Mercer County Food Bank and Grove City Days for Girls are partnering this year to make Days for Girls kits available at every student food pantry in the county. We hope, with your help, we can supply them with washable menstrual pad kits and…
Psalm 124 (2025-2026A)
If it were not for You, O Beloved, You who make all things new,Fear and chaos would reign in every heart; in You will I trust forever.When doubt threatens to overwhelm and separate me,when anger makes me blind, Then You, O Merciful One, are ever-ready to Awaken the holy, the sacred within me;Then do your Living Streams…