Minister Ryan Lindsay Arrendell is a preacher, writer, entrepreneur, and Emmy-award-winning journalist. She believes in storytelling for healing and change and contributes to The Christian Citizen. Researching Christian women’s experiences with abortion, she aims to create pastoral and spiritual care guides. Her upcoming book, “Mine The Unseen,” explores abortion as a healing pathway for Black Christian women.
A Yale Divinity School graduate, Min. Ryan Lindsay serves at Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn, NY, where she will be ordained in Nov. 2024. Originally from Washington, D.C., she began preaching at Zion Baptist Church as a teenager.
She is the daughter of Rev. Donna and Edward Carlton II and has two angels, Joi and Merci. Her guiding scripture is Romans 12:12: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.”