Lauren Wright

virginia tech & duke divinity | united methodist pastor | enneagram 3 | she, her, hers

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

I’m officially ‘needs a lidocaine patch for my back mid-transatlantic flight’ years old 😵‍💫

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

just casually did a gel manicure during a zoom meeting with my bishop. who have I become? 🫠✨

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

actual footage of me, as I delete the anti-patriarchy/anti-purity culture rant from Sunday’s sermon on Rahab and Joshua 2:

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

waiting for my report, getting big Oz vibes #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

if you want some good -inclusive- resources, go check our COSROW’s table in the banquet hall! #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

‘In order to give someone else a voice, you have to shut up’ - a good word for #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

@SkipSandwich Sure! I’ll send you a DM

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

(not so) friendly COSROW monitoring suggestion: if you don’t want to share pronouns, simply refrain from doing so. no need to make a mockery of those that are working for inclusion. #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

God would obviously be a miniature dachshund #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

@SkipSandwich It certainly is clunky - COSROW has been trying to get this information for years and has been repeatedly thwarted. At this time, lay members don’t have to provide all of their demographics at registration in the same way that clergy do. Help is appreciated!

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

for those wondering:
18 and under: youth
19-35: young adults
36-54: adults
55+: older adults
#vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

‘We have some that are very well paid and then we have the rest of us.’ - a great statement on the status of clergy salaries #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

What if instead of awkwardly laughing at the debt question every year we…actually did something about it? #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

pitting our UM schools against our state school Wesley foundations for funding is absurd - we’re in this together and there should be enough for all #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

I’ll vote to move 2026 annual conference to Harrisonburg if we can guarantee that the Kline’s flavor will be peanut butter cookies and cream 🍦#vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

looking around and seeing just how few people fall in the 35 and under category is sobering #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

just your friendly COSROW chair popping on to say that this panel could use a female… 👀 #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

there is a literal bird flying around clergy session - it was not in fact a metaphor for the Holy Spirit 🤣 #vaumc24

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

I cannot believe that American Girl has the AUDACITY to make a 90s doll and put it in the -historical- section of their collection - the inflatable furniture and mini care and keeping of you book just KILL me 🤣

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

also yes this happened again THIS MORNING in front of me, it’s 2023, let’s be better.

[Lauren Wright @laaaurenwright]

one of my very favorite things about my dad is that whenever someone finds out he has 3 daughters, and makes some super sexist comment to the effect of, ‘so sorry you didn’t get a son’, he’s quick to shut them down and talk about his love for his girls - truly the best #girldad