About

Rev. Mindi
Rev. Mindi

Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell is an ordained American Baptist minister currently serving as the senior pastor of Queen Anne Baptist Church in Seattle, WA. She has been blogging under the name Rev-o-lution since 2007 and creating worship resources since 2010. She is married to Rev. J.C. Mitchell and they have one son, AJ, who has autism. On November 6th, she was enthusiastically called to become the next Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Wisconsin, and will begin on March 1st, 2022.

Rev. Mindi’s blog on the Revised Common Lectionary and Narrative Lectionary readings posts every Friday. To receive the latest blog in your inbox, sign up for her newsletter.

Rev. Mindi has essays published in The Modern Magnificat: Women Responding to the Call of God (2012), There’s a Woman in the Pulpit: Christian Clergywomen Share Their Hard Days, Holy Moments, and the Healing Power of Humor (2015), and When Kids Ask Hard Questions: Faith-Filled Responses for Tough Topics (2019). She has some of her prayers from this blog published in The New Manual of Worship from Judson Press (2018). Rev. Mindi also is published most recently in The Christian Citizen, Judson’s Journeys Bible Study Curriculum (September in the Fall 2021 edition and August for Summer 2022), and the Spring 2020 American Baptist Quarterly on The Hopepunk Gospel: Weaponizing Optimism in Resistance to a Grimdark World, co-authored with Rev. Paul Schneider.

Rev. Mindi also writes fiction under the name Melinda Mitchell.

To contact Rev. Mindi, send her an email at mindiwm at gmail dot com.

Note: On December 17th, 2020, this website crashed and I lost all the old posts. This has been a rebuilding year, but I am still researching new website builders, so I hope to have this site upgraded in the future to be more user-friendly.