Aleta Payne

Senior editor, Faith & Leadership

Aleta Payne joined Faith & Leadership in November 2019. Aleta’s role as senior editor combines her experience in newspaper and magazine journalism with her work at faith-based nonprofits, including the North Carolina Council of Churches and Johnson Service Corps. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, holds a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke, and has completed a two-year program on Anglicanism and social justice through the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary.

Aleta writes occasional commentary for the opinion pages of the News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer and is also a published poet and essayist. She is a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church where she serves as a lay Eucharistic minister and is active with several of the parish’s justice ministries.

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Aleta Payne

Senior editor, Faith & Leadership

Instead of defining progress as building bridges, consider what the work requires

Are we losing our ability to lament gun violence?

Creating our future is a group effort

Some churchgoers have an incomplete vision of race in America

The parable of the shopping carts

Aleta Payne: The wise men packed up their privilege and slipped out the back

To my white sisters in Christ

Aleta Payne: Easter at the altar of my kitchen table