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eadership. It connotes so many positive traits: growth, empowerment, success. For women, this can be harder to achieve due to less opportunities, societal blowback or otherwise. Even as I, a man, ironically write this, the theory’s prevalence is shown.

Take religion, for example. Archaic traditions have kept women from positions of power and influence. But as times change, so do policies, opening the door for many. We sat down with two women in particular who are pastors of Valley churches. They spoke of how far their churches have come, but with sentiments of how far they have to go as struggles persist.

Our cover girl, Elizabeth Edwards, is also a shining light of leadership. As a James Madison University professor and executive director of the Morrison-Bruce Center, a program that promotes active lifestyles for women, she has revolutionized p their both. Her persistence is key as she hopes to empower young girls and keep lives from becoming sedentary despite life’s challenges.

We hope our tenets of educating and entertaining continue to come through in this issue, and feel free to send any ideas or comments our way. May these stories inspire your inner leader, and, as always, keep blooming!

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Stephanie Sorge Wing (right), the pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church, speaks with Anne Ross, a retired pastor, before the start of service.

“The expectations for women in ministry are often very different.”

— Stephanie Sorge Wing

“DIFFERENT” EXPECTATIONS Women Thrive And Face Challenges As Leaders In Christian Churches

By Shelby Mertens • Photos By Daniel Lin lthough women played important roles in the early Christian church, women’s ordination has remained a controversial issue for centuries.

While Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faith traditions have continually refused to ordain women to church leadership, the issue is split among Protestant denominations. Some mainline sects embrace gender equality, and others cite Biblical scriptures they interpret as prohibiting women from top church roles. Religions outside of Christianity have also struggled with the role of female leadership.

Women were ordained to congregations of the United Methodist Church in the late 19th century, followed by the Presbyterian Church in 1956 and the Lutheran

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and Episcopal churches in the 1970s. While women’s ordination started becoming mainstream around 50 to 60 years ago, female leaders still face challenges serving the church today.

Half of the students in seminary for the Presbyterian Church are women, but women pastors, according to Stephanie Sorge Wing, the pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, still don’t get paid what their male counterparts do, nor are they offered the same opportunities.

“There are a lot of women that are in ministry or going into ministry, and yet, when you look at some of the bigger jobs [at] bigger churches – the more wellpaying positions – there’s still a real disconnect. Those are still almost entirely

dominated by men, so women tend to serve in smaller congregations. They tend to be paid less,” Sorge Wing said. “There’s a huge pay gap between men and women in the Presbyterian Church and in other churches as well.”

Sorge Wing became pastor at Trinity Presbyterian two years ago after moving with her family from North Carolina. She previously served as a part-time associate pastor for campus ministry at Davidson College Presbyterian Church, and she has served as head pastor in other churches beforehand, including in Kentucky. Her husband is also a pastor.

Women clergy face institutional barriers and informal challenges as well.

“There are a number of

ways in which women are, I think, subject to off-hand comments and microaggressions and kind of off-the-cuff remarks that men would never have to deal with,” Sorge Wing said. “The expectations for women in ministry are often very different. … There’s generally been a lot of reverence for the positions of pastors that doesn’t always get transferred over to women.”

Male pastors, she said, don’t have to worry about their appearance, their weight and don’t get asked questions about child care during job interviews. Sorge Wing said she has even experienced sexual harassment by both members and others professionals in the community while serving past churches.

She said, however, that

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“The reality is, when you’re called to this life, it won’t let you go.

God won’t let you go.”

— Amanda Garber she has not experienced any problems at Trinity Presbyterian. Her predecessor was a female pastor who served the church for 25 years.

“Trinity is a very open and welcoming place,” Sorge Wing said. “They had a tradition of having female leadership, and they appreciated that, so I think I’ve had a lot less of that to deal with in this particular congregation.”

Whenever someone with more traditional views tries to argue with Sorge Wing over the validity of women’s ordination, she responds with a history lesson.

“I would say that if it weren’t for women, it’s hard to imagine where Christianity would be today. I might even argue that it wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Mary, who said, ‘yes,’ when the angel came and prophesied that she would have Jesus. If it weren’t for a woman who bore the living word into the world, we wouldn’t have Christmas,” she said. “And … women were the very first witnesses to the resurrection, women were the first ones Jesus told to go out and spread the good news — to evangelize, to share the gospel — so women were the very first preachers.”

Not all interactions are civil, though. That’s why Amanda Garber, pastor of RISE United Methodist Faith Community, has changed her course. She doesn’t debate 4

Amanda Garber, the pastor at RISE United Methodist Faith Community, leads worship.

women’s ordination much anymore. Instead, she tries to change hearts by her actions rather than words.

“I’ve been told a number of times, actually, that I’m leading people astray, that I don’t take the Bible seriously.

I’ve been told several times that I’m leading people to hell,” Garber said. “Early on in my journey … I think it was really emerging from seminary and working in the real church in the real world, there was sort of a painful awakening that came with that. Early on, I would engage in a sort of theological debate. I erroneously assumed that if I just provided my point of view, or a ‘logical, well reasoned Biblical argument,’ that at the very least people might stop and listen to me. But what I’ve learned through the years is: A whole lot of those statements are rooted in fear.

You can’t reason with fear.

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open and willing to listen, is relationships.”

She added that the negative comments don’t bother her as much anymore.

“I will also say that I’m very secure in who I am and who God has called me to be. … I have a real sense of who I am and whose I am.”

Garber founded RISE in 2010 as the church emerged out of the Wesley Foundation campus ministry. Born and raised in the Roanoke Valley, Garber didn’t attend Duke Divinity School until 2000, after earning a master’s degree in speech language pathology from James Madison University. The call to ministry came very unexpectedly for her, and she said it was unshakable.

“The reality is, when you’re really called to this life, it won’t let you go. God won’t let you go,” Garber said. “You can run from it. I did for a season, but eventually, God is persistent.”

Garber said the job of a pastor is challenging, period.

But it’s harder as a woman.

“We have certainly come a long way, but still, my breath is taken away by some of what I hear going on out there in the larger church and by the indescribable amount of sexism that still exists, and misogyny that still exists in our culture and in our church,” she said.

Garber said like all cultural change, ones within the church move even slower.

But she is thankful for the women pastors before her who paved the way to break the glass ceiling.

“Women have been boldly blazing trails for centuries, actually, so even that first wave of clergywomen could find their way. I am really part of a second wave of women clergy and I am indescribably grateful for the first wave of women who [had] it pretty bad,” she said. “It was a rough journey for them, and while I certainly have had some unkind and hurtful things said to me, it’s nothing compared to what women in the late ’50s, ’60s and ’70s experienced. I’ve heard the

stories. I sit and marvel at how they persisted.”

What needs to change moving forward is the stereotype of what a pastor looks like, Sorge Wing said.

“When you think of what a pastor looks like in the media, or in any kind of stereotype and portrayal, it’s usually a guy,” Sorge Wing said. “[But] it’s women, too. It’s young women. It’s older women. It’s women with tattoos. It’s women with piercings. It’s women with children. It’s single women.

It’s gender non-conforming women. It’s LGBTQ women [and] women of all kinds. A pastor doesn’t look like any one particular thing.”

While it’s common for people to tell women clergy that they don’t look like ministers, or that they never would have guessed they are the head of the church, Garber tries to keep a good sense of humor about it. She has learned that sometimes those comments can be said in a positive context.

“Sometimes, people actually mean that as a compliment, I’ve learned,” she said. “People who have been burned by the church, or had a negative experience, they have a certain image in their head of what a pastor

“Women were the very first witnesses to the resurrection, women were the first ones Jesus told to go out and spread the good news – to evangelize, to share the gospel – so women were the very first preachers.”

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Sorge Wing never had a woman pastor growing up in church, but now, she hopes, young girls will see early on that women can be ministers, too, as the representation of female clergy becomes more and more common.

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little cold weather (or a lot of it, actually) isn’t going to keep Elizabeth Edwards and her family sedentary. The living room, filled with toys and space, becomes a play area with bikes, bouncing Slinkies and farm animals galore.

“We’re definitely the kind of house that [my daughter] Emy rides right around inside when it’s cold,” Edwards said. “We are willing to accept a little bit of chaos in turn for them being able to move.”

Edwards is right there on the floor with her 3-year-old, Emerson, and 1-year-old, Parker, playing right along, lifting and moving. But she can’t help it; it’s in her nature. In fact, it’s in her family’s nature.

She and her husband, Dave, met in grad school while they were both studying exercise science — the subject they both teach, with Elizabeth at James Madison University and Dave at the University of Virginia.

To Elizabeth Edwards, inactivity isn’t an option — not for her or her family. “Dave and I both have strong beliefs that so many of these foundational skills really start when the kids are young,” she said. “If you watch a little kid, they’re all naturally active, and we learn how to be inactive over our lives. Their natural tendencies are to go, go, go.”

Now, the 31-year-old professor has made it her life’s work to make sure she continues promoting wellness and activity, especially to girls and women. On top of being a JMU professor, she’s also the executive director of the Morrison-Bruce Center, a campus program that states their mission is “dedicated to enhancing the well-being of girls and women through the promotion of an active and healthy lifestyle.”

The Beginning Like many in her field, Edwards grew up with sports as a big part of her life. “Those were really some of the experiences that helped me grow as a person,” she said. “I was exposed to a lot of really positive influences in terms of my coaches and my teammates.”

Growing up in the small town of Bluefield, Va., Edwards remembers that there weren’t a lot of outlets for kids. So, the draw of sports, or being on the field or on the court, is what always made her happy and made her feel at home.

“I had this one basketball coach, Coach Hill, who was both my [junior varsity] and, ultimately, my varsity basketball coach in high school, and she just cared so much about us as people,” Edwards said.

“She wanted us to grow up and be good people. I saw the teamwork and the camaraderie that could develop from that.”

While Edwards went through what she called her “teenage angst” years, she explained that she felt awkward and self-conscious, like most teens. But it was the physical activity that she was so accustomed to that helped build her confidence moving forward.

Elizabeth Edwards is the executive director of the Morrison-Bruce Center at James Madision University.

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When she got to the University of Miami, her original plan was to major in exercise physiology on her way to the pre-med track. But after getting into her core classes, her plans changed.

“Once I started studying it, I just loved it,” she said. “I loved learning about what was happening in the body, and as I stayed at Miami for grad school, what I got into was trying to bring that general health and wellness education to everybody. That’s always what interested me. What I was passionate about when I was going through undergrad and grad school was that everyone should have access to this information and use this to better themselves however they choose.”

While Edwards was doing her grad school work, she took that love of exercise physiology and education and helped create a summer camp program for inner city kids. The program brought at-risk youth to the Miami campus for a health and wellness camp.

For eight hours a day, for several weeks, Edwards and the staff would work with around 100 middle- and high-school students to get them active, but, as Edwards said, “to teach them about how their body works and why nutrition and physiology is important.”

Once she graduated from Miami, it was a job in Harrisonburg that caught her eye.

“When I started looking for jobs, this job was open and specifically to eventually take over the Morrison-Bruce Center,” she said. “I love teaching exercise physiology, where I get to train future physical therapists and cardiac rehab practitioners, but I also get to have a really direct hand in the community.”

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Elizabeth Edwards (left) plays with her daughter, Emma.

“If you watch a little kid, they’re all naturally active, and we learn how to be inactive over our lives. Their natural tendencies are to go, go, go.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

The Morrison-Bruce Center By coming to JMU and eventually taking over the center, Edwards was planning on keeping the tradition of strong female leadership in the kinesiology department alive — a tradition that was started by Lee Morrison and Pat Bruce.

Judith Flohr, the founding director of the center, came to JMU in the fall of 1984 to work under the associate athletic director at the time: Morrison.

“She was internationally known,” Flohr said of Morrison. “I wasn’t really looking for a job, but when this job opened, and it was the chance to work with her, and that I would still get to teach, I was pretty excited about it.”

Flohr came to JMU and taught, along with coaching swimming, for four years before leaving to get her Ph.D. When she left, it was with the understanding that when she finished her degree, she would have a place to come back to at JMU. Upon returning to the university, Flohr’s office was in the basement of Godwin Hall, where

she was able to observe Bruce working with students on a daily basis.

“Dr. Bruce, throughout her entire career, she always told the department head she wanted to teach a class in beginning swimming,” Flohr said. “I had a chance to observe her, and I would watch her change people. Adults who don’t know how to swim would come in and are as frightened as can be, and leave a semester later just so much more confident, not only with themselves, but with their bodies, too.”

Flohr furthered that both Morrison and Bruce weren’t just professors, but were mentors to so many people during their time at the university.

“Dr. Morrison was on the U.S. Olympic Committee, she helped write Title IX, she started the [Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women], which was an organization for women’s college sports before they were in the NCAA,” she said. “Dr. Bruce was a leader, not just in professional organizations, but on campus.

She believed in the importance of physical activity for the individual’s self confidence.”

Morrison and Bruce retired from the university in 1989, but Flohr continued a lasting friendship with both of them. She explains that the university approached Morrison in the late 1990s and wanted to name a playing field after her, in honor of her years of service to JMU. “[Morrison] was sharing that with me, and I said, ‘Really?’” Flohr said. “She said, ‘Yeah, what do you think?’ I said, ‘I think that you don’t think it’s a good idea and I don’t think it’s a good idea, either.

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not about just being able to play sports. It was the consequence of women being involved in competitive sport and what it would do for them later in life. She wanted women to be able to have any job they wanted, and so sports was a way to help that develop.”

In the fall of 2000, Flohr took a sabbatical and went down to Morrison’s hometown of Savannah, Ga. The pair were walking along with a friend, and Morrison’s friend asked her, “[Lee], of all the things you’ve accomplished, what are you the most proud of?” Flohr remembers that at that exact moment, a woman went running by and Morrison responded, “That. That women are in public, exercising, being fit.”

“It hit me,” Flohr said. “I know what we need to do to honor you.

We need to have a center that provides physical activity opportunities for women outside of athletics, but that undergraduate and graduate students can work in for them not only to develop their leadership abilities, but also give them a chance to get some sort of practical skill.”

It took four years, but the center held its first event in the fall of 2004. Eventually, it became the Morrison-Bruce Center, to honor the legacy of two women who contributed so much to the promotion of physical activity and healthy lifestyles to girls and women.

Edwards Comes To JMU In 2011, Edwards applied for the associate director of the Morrison-Bruce Center, as Flohr was still the executive director.

Flohr explained that seven years later, she still remembers exactly what drew her to Edwards.

“I can almost see her letter of application,” Flohr said. “She, in her cover letter, it was her not only mentioning the center, but also that one of her secondary areas was women. Another thing was her extensive background in statistics, especially if you’re going to conduct research and analyze data.” Along with all that, Flohr was also drawn to Edwards’ work with the summer camp program she ran as a grad student at Miami.

“When she came for her interview, her presentation, she really laid out, in clear terms, how she thought she could contribute and how this was exactly the kind of position she was looking for,” Flohr said. “The search committee agreed with me that her cover letter and resume, then the telephone interview, and then once we got her here, it was one of those cliche things. It’s a no-brainer that it’s who we should hire.”

The center works with girls ranging from ages 3 to a participant in her 80s. “Our mission is to serve across the whole life span and those come with very different needs,” Edwards said.

Much like her own children, Edwards’ and the center start teaching kids about nutrition and healthy lifestyles at an early age. The center has a Healthy Kids program that works with preschool-aged girls.

“At the preschool level, we have two main goals: to teach very basic nutrition messages, like can they identify fruits and vegetables and protein, and can they identify, very basically, what those do for your body? [Second], we also work on fundamental motor skills with them.”

Along with their Healthy Kids program, the center also sponsors other programs for girls of all ages, such as a Movin’ and Groovin’ Day, an Exercise is Medicine program, a Girls Golf activity, as well as an Alumni Health and Wellness Program for members of the JMU alumni community. The center also works with Waterman 8

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Elizabeth Edwards (right) talks with Janet K. Wigglesworth, the head of the kinesiology department, while walking through Godwin Hall at JMU. Photo by Nikki Fox

Elementary School in Harrisonburg for Girls Have H.E.A.R.T. (Healthy Eating And Running Today).

“That’s a girls’ running program where we’re trying to both teach specific running skills and have them exposed to running enough where they enjoy it. But we also build in an empowerment piece,” Edwards said. “We know, at that age, they’re really starting to compare themselves to other girls [and] starting to have those selfesteem issues.”

Originally, the plan was for Flohr to mentor Edwards for a few years before retiring and leaving as executive director of the center.

Flohr explained that the plan happened a lot quicker than either of them expected, but that Edwards has shown high level of “professional maturity” in taking over the position.

“She’s always been very professional about, ‘Hey, do you mind, I have a few questions. What do you think about X? How would you handle Y?’ Don’t assume that you have to know everything, and don’t be afraid to seek someone else’s council. She has done that and has also been very forward thinking as to where the center can go.”

The Future And The Center’s Legacy It’s obvious that the Morrison-Bruce Center is a program that deserves a lot of recognition. With everything Edwards has been able to do in her four years as executive director, there’s no question that

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Elizabeth Edwards talks to students after teaching a kinesiology course at JMU.

she has the program headed in the right direction. But Flohr and Edwards both admit that the center has had some difficulty picking up steam on campus. They currently have to share facilities with other on-campus programs despite their large numbers.

But when asked what the future of the center looks like, Edwards explained that it looks bright because of all the good it does for girls and women on campus and in the community.

“We are in a period of growth where we have been fortunate enough to have our endowment grow a pretty significant amount, so we’re trying to figure out this exact question,” she said. “Some of

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the biggest priorities for us ... right now [are] that we have to beg and borrow facilities. We share them with athletics, some [University Recreation Center] programs, so [it’s about] developing a bigger presence so that we can be on a more everyday basis. In my ideal world, we would continue to have programs, but we would also have a physical space that women could just come and be active.”

Edwards also said that the center wants to continue to reach out to those in the community who don’t have the best availability to resources. It could be for girls who have transportation issues, language barriers, financial challenges or, as she said, “those girls who don’t see themselves as capable of being active.”

While the Morrison-Bruce Center is a great resource for getting girls and women out and active, it’s important because it empowers them to reach their full potential.

“Some of the empowerment is helping them realize they already have the tools themselves and they just don’t even realize it,” Edwards said. “And then, helping them help each other and build that social support.”

Edwards has come a long way from that girl in the small town looking for an outlet. That’s what makes her such a special individual; she has taken everything she has learned and tried to help others, especially girls, in a world where so many people just look out for themselves. But with women like Edwards, and places like the Morrison-Bruce Center, girls of all ages have support on their side.

“In our ideal world, we would become a place that people just see as a resource,” Edwards said. “I think everyone deserves that — that thing where they just feel at home and happy.”

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By Shelby Mertens

ith freezing cold temperatures comes higher heat and gas bills during the winter months.

Your house loses heat much faster when the thermostat is set to 70 degrees in 5-degree weather than 95-degree weather, said Jason Burch, the manager of system engineering at Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative. The technical term is that it’s a much greater heat transfer rate.

“Most people have a pretty fundamental understanding of that when they’re trying to dress for outside in a 95-degree day versus a 5-degree day. In a 95-degree day, you don’t really notice flaws in your clothing, but if you go out on a 5-degree day and you forgot a scarf, or something for your head, or you forgot to wear socks, you’re really going to notice

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that,” he said. “Your home is no different.”

Because of that, your house will have to use more energy during the cold season in order to keep the temperature at a comfortable rate. So, your utility bills will see a hike no matter what, but luckily, there are some tips to help save your bank account during the coldest time of year.

MAKE OBSERVATIONS Take a moment to observe each room in your house.

Look for places you think may need more insulation.

“Take note of where you feel inadequacies,” Burch said.

“In other words, if your floor is really cool. If you have a particular room that’s really cold — whatever inadequacy it is — take note of it and look to fix that in the spring.

Use it as a learning chance.”

REPLACE OR ADD WEATHER STRIPPING Replacing or adding weather stripping will ensure that your doors and windows have a tight seal, thus preventing cold air from creeping into your home.

“The single biggest impact I’ve seen in my own home is replacing or adding weather stripping to doors and other openings in your house,” Burch said.

OPEN CURTAINS DURING THE DAY Use heat from natural light to your advantage. During the day, open curtains and blinds to let sunlight shine through.

“The sunlight will warm objects in your house and then, when you get home in the evening, close all of that stuff. Stretch your curtains and your sheer to trap all that heat in,” he said.

HOME USE SPACE HEATERS SPARINGLY The biggest mistake people making during winter, Burch said, is improperly using space heaters in the home. Avoid using them for an extended period of time. “What we’ve seen is a dramatic rise in the use of space heaters in folks homes, which is great, that lets them be comfortable in whatever room they want to be in. However, we’ve seen a lack of understanding of just how much energy a space heater uses,” Burch said. The best use of a space heater, he said, is to only heat the room while you or others are in the room and need heat.

Turn it off once the room is no longer occupied. Don’t use space heaters as a main heat source.

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“If you go out on a 5-degree day and you forgot ... to wear socks, you’re really going to notice that.

Your home is no different.”

— Jason Burch

WEAR WARM CLOTHES IN THE HOUSE Another simple way to conserve energy in relation to the thermostat temperature: Keep that sweater on when you come home to stay warm. Don’t change into shorts and a T-shirt.

“Clothing choice allows you to lower the thermostat even more, if possible,” Burch said.

KEEP THE THERMOSTAT AS LOW AS YOU CAN

KEEP UP WITH MAINTENANCE

The No. 1 way to save energy is to avoid cranking the thermostat up to high temperatures, while also managing your own comfort.

Be sure not to keep it too low or else you’ll freeze the pipes.

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative recommends keeping the thermostat at 68 degrees during the winter, but “that doesn’t mean that’s appropriate for everyone.

Medical conditions need the proper adjustment and other factors figure in there, but that seems to be the threshold for most folks, on the lower end,” according to Burch.

Lastly, remember to change heat pump filters regularly to keep them clean, Burch said. And if you’re using a fireplace, which he said can be a great supplemental heat source, be sure to have the chimney inspected and keep the damper closed when you’re not using it.

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