Britney Winn Lee is an author, liturgist, and United Methodist pastor living in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her creative husband and big-hearted son. Her books include The Boy with Big, Big Feelings (Beaming Books), The Girl with Big, Big Questions (Beaming Books), Rally: Communal Prayers for Lovers of Jesus and Justice (Upper Room), Deconstructed Do-Gooder: A Memoir about Learning Mercy the Hard Way (Cascade Books), the recently released Good Night, Body: Finding Calm from Head to Toe (Tommy Nelson), and the forthcoming The Kid With Big, Big Ideas (Beaming Books). With a masters degree in nonprofit administration and her local pastor licensure, Lee has worked for over a decade in faith- and justice-based, creative community-building. She writes to make room. See what she’s creating at patreon.com/theseparticularwords and on socials @britneywinnlee .
Contributions
- May 10, 2024: It’s Complicated: A Different Liturgy for Mother’s Day
- July 12, 2016: Postpartum Depression and #blacklivesmatter
- June 22, 2018: Healing the Divide: ‘Reconstructing the Gospel’ Online Book Study
- May 31, 2018: Why It’s Not Okay to Call Humans ‘Animals’
- April 5, 2018: Revival: A Liturgy for Repentance
- January 26, 2018: Love Song for Liturgy
- November 10, 2017: Hope’s Drums: A Call and Response Litany
- September 29, 2017: A Reminder for the Relocated
- August 14, 2017: Sound the Alarm: A Liturgy for Troubling Times
- February 13, 2017: Share This: How Jesus Saves From The Facebook Wars
- December 30, 2016: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty
- July 13, 2018: Living an Embodied Faith: How to Unlearn Slaveholder Religion
- June 16, 2016: Straight and Scared
- August 21, 2014: Life Among the Bus-Riders: A Window on My City
- September 21, 2014: Adoption's Reality: My Time With A Teen Birth Mom
- October 21, 2014: Global Missions: What Are We Doing Here?
- November 12, 2014: The Garden’s Good News, the Landfill’s Lament
- December 29, 2014: Christmas in the Borderlands (Part 1)
- January 6, 2015: Christmas in the Borderlands (Part 2)
- February 11, 2015: Is New Monasticism for Everyone?
- September 14, 2015: To the Stranger Who Trusted, Thanks
- August 3, 2020: Wheat and Weeds: Thoughts on Cancel Culture
- June 7, 2023: Why Stay Christian: A Pride Month Pondering
- November 23, 2022: On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’
- November 23, 2022: On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’
- September 10, 2021: A Love Song for the Long-Haul: LA UMC Pastors on Hurricane Ida Aftermath
- July 2, 2021: Brian McLaren, Doubt, and Decoding
- March 23, 2021: Never Again: A Litany for Rebuking Mass Shootings
- March 12, 2021: On the Anniversary of the Shut-Down: A Prayer for What Was, Is, and Is to Come
- February 25, 2021: Identifying Spiritual Abuse
- November 23, 2022: On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’
- August 29, 2023: Who Carries the Vision?
- May 6, 2020: It’s Complicated: A Different Liturgy for Mother’s Day
- April 1, 2020: The Strangest Lent
- March 17, 2020: Lessons From the Fog (And This Pandemic)
- January 17, 2020: The Art of the Third Way
- October 14, 2019: Who Carries the Vision?
- July 22, 2019: How Being Unaffected Is a Sign of Privilege
- February 27, 2019: Grieving Exclusion: A Liturgy of Lament
- September 21, 2018: Speak Love: #RaiseYourVoice Online Book Study

