Windy is a long-time Quaker public minister with an embraced ministry of right relationship. In her 2019 minute of embrace by Sandy Spring Friends Meeting (Baltimore Yearly), the meeting says, “Windy brings the gifts of love, energy, experience, relationship building, moral courage, introspection, hearing, communicating, and administering to this work.” And in 2024 the meeting affirmed in a general travel minute that “Windy’s ministry with Friends is part of a larger call to right relationship in the world, a call that is provided by and informed by the Spirit” and that “We trust that you will experience Windy’s gifts of love, wisdom, moral courage and relationship building as you engage with Windy.”
Windy has traveled, researched, written, taught, and eldered full-time in the ministry since 2018 after being called to ministry in 2013.
Much of her ministry work has been in discernment practices for times of community crisis; she is the co-author of the Coming Together for Continuing Revelation discernment practice, which has been productively used in both America and Europe since 2021. She is the past convener of the Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse project.
She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Earlham School of Religion and a recent Doctor of Ministry degree from Lancaster Theological Seminary—earned, in part, through her completion of research into public ministry practices among Friends entitled The War For and Against Quakers: Right Relationship and Public Ministry in the Religious Society of Friends.
She is the current convener of a project to revitalize the practice of ministry by Friends called the Friends Incubator for Public Ministry.
The website for this project can be found here:
