Intersections
/
Authors
/
Kara Baylor

Kara Baylor

Rev., Director of the Center of Faith and Spirituality

Carthage College

The Rev. Kara Baylor is the Director of the Center of Faith and Spirituality at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she provides direction for campus ministry, works with the Division of Student Affairs to develop spiritual programs and service activities, and assists with crisis intervention and grief support.

Published Articles

Reflection

The Long Pilgrimage of 2020-21

Kara Baylor

No. 52 · Fall 2020

Drawing on Martha Stortz’s definition of pilgrimage as “intentional dislocation, for the sake of transformation, where the body teaches the soul,” Baylor invites students and educators worn out by the 2020-21 academic year to ask what is essential, to listen to what their bodies are telling their souls, and to be more open to the transformations the dislocation might still yield.
Reflection

Seeing in a New Way: A Meditation

Kara Baylor

No. 50 · Fall 2019

Baylor, the only Black campus pastor in the NECU, weaves Psalm 25, the parable of the Good Samaritan as re-read through Lenny Duncan, and the “crimson thread of divine justice” from Allen Dwight Callahan into a meditation that closes with the invitation she offered at the 2019 conference — to tie a crimson thread around the wrist as a symbol of collective commitment to moving beyond privilege toward inclusion and equity.

Kara Baylor

Published Articles

The Long Pilgrimage of 2020-21

Seeing in a New Way: A Meditation