Karen Oliveto

INTO THE DEEP END I have never been one to enjoy a wading pool. Even as a small child, I couldn't wait to jump into the deep end of the pool. I loved being able to not just float on the surface, but dive deep, deeper still, into the watery depths. Funny, it is the way I like to live life as well.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Dear Diary...

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Uncle Howie asked me to help him look for Christmas gifts for my sisters’ daughters, both ‘tweens. He thought that the perfect gift for them...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

We Must Remember

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In July, my vacation took me to the alps of Austria.  One day, I travelled to the town of Ebensee to visit a former concentration camp. It w...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Barbie, Doll

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She sat on the city sidewalk in her own urine.  I wanted to turn away but there was something about her that made me keep looking at her. Di...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Be Counted!

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Now is the time for the voiceless to have a voice, the overlooked to be seen, the underrepresented to have representation, the nameless to b...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

ReThink WHAT??!!

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I was making my way to Glide one morning, and when I stopped off BART at the Powell Street station, I looked around and saw that the station...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Musing While Meandering

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The other day I took a walk on a bike path near my home. Looking over at a building, I noted that someone had scrawled a message on it: T...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Who is Really Ruining Marriage and Destroying the Family?

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The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has, in response to marriage equality in DC, chosen to drop spousal health care benefits  for its emp...
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Karen Oliveto
I was born on Good Friday and raised in Babylon (a NY town on Long Island). Perhaps that says it all! I am a retired United Methodist Bishop. Before my election to the episcopacy in July 2016, I was senior pastor at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church and an adjunct professor of United Methodist Studies at Pacific School of Religion. I hold a PhD in Religion and Society from Drew University. I love studying the intersection of church and culture. I have a severe case of wanderlust, which I believe I inherited from my Uncle Howie. I am grateful that my ministry affords me opportunities to travel. I love meeting new people, learning from new cultural contexts, and working with communities to change the world.
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