Abigail Elizabeth Reynolds, PhD
Abigail holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion. She also holds two master’s degrees. The first is a Master of Divinity and the second is a Master of Arts in Counseling.
As to how she feels about all this perpetual education, an old friend used to say that all those initials behind your name are like the tail on a pig. It has no real value except to tickle the ham that wears it.
Two things Dr. Abby truly enjoys are teaching and writing. She has held workshops and seminars, conducted training classes, preached, and engaged in extensive research.
She also enjoys writing. Dr. Abby journals, places her thoughts on paper, and commit others to the files on her computer. She has had a number of articles published along with two books. The first book was published in 1993 and is entitled “The Eucharist: A Lost Spiritual Tradition in the Protestant Church”. The second, for her Ph.D. entitled, “Crisis of Ministry: A Multifaceted Look into the Decline of Clergy in Mainstream Churches”.
Abigail just finished a novel entitled, “The Reporter Wore Petticoats”. The novel is set in the 19th century and features our heroine, Elizabeth Grace Fitzgerald, who enters Wilson School for Women in 1824 and goes on to become a reporter. Over the course of her career, she meets and engages many historical characters from William Garrison and Frederick Douglass, to Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee and U. S. Grant.
She covers the Temperance Movement, the Abolitionist period, the Suffrage Movement and of course the Civil War. To find out more and how her life turns out, you will need to read the book .
She is sure you will find “The Reporter Wore Petticoats” entertaining, enlightening, and enjoyable.
Dr. Abby loves to travel and engage adventures of all sorts. Over the years, she has tried to learn something new each and every year. Abby tries a new activity, learns a new skill, reads a new book, sings a new song, dances a new dance. She loves to try new foods, new drinks, and occasionally, a new cigar.
Abigail loves new destinations, new challenges and new people. And now she is going to try a new way of sharing her thoughts, ideas, opinions, insights, hopes, dreams, struggles, and anything else that may come along.
She invites you to join her on the journey. Together, we can explore the possibilities and destinations this endeavor will lead us to. So the journey now begins. Let’s enjoy the trip and see where it leads us to in the days ahead. Remember, it’s the journey that is important, not the destination.
In the journey, let there be glory, honor, majesty and power to the most high God in all things.
Carol Crawford Rowe, R.N., M.Div.
Carol Crawford Rowe wears several hats, but usually none at all. She prefers to be bare-headed, so that new experiences and experiments may find her open and available.
Twice married to ministers, after being widowed for the second time, she heard God’s call, completed seminary education, and became a minister herself. As a registered nurse, she was an educator, administrator, psychiatric nurse, and therapist/counselor.
Officially retired from gainful employment, she is free to pursue her interests of reading, writing, sewing, cooking, baking, traveling, and encouraging her children and grandchildren to be(come) all that God has called them to be.
Easily bored, she does not appreciate the repetitive tasks of housekeeping or crafting, but shopping is still a delightful enterprise. She wants to share ideas, joy, and a sense of God’s personal love with all.
Her writings are primarily in the form of reflections and letters, soon to be gathered into a book for her family and friends.
Carol lives with her best friend, adopted sister Abby, and their dyslexic dog, Molly, who thinks that her species is spelled g-o-d.
You are invited to engage in dialogue with Carol as you choose. She cherishes new contacts that may blossom into friendships. You are welcome here.
