womanist theology
Why Black women like Yolanda Pierce are rising to lead top theology schools
By Rebekah Barber — October 31, 2023
(RNS) — The academy is raising up the voices it once blocked.
Chanequa Walker-Barnes calls care of self vital to caring for others
By Adelle M. Banks — August 15, 2023
(RNS) — In her new book, ‘Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves,’ she describes, how to live with healthy habits, wise speech and regular laughter.
Unitarian Universalists elect first woman of color, openly queer president
By Kathryn Post — June 25, 2023
(RNS) — A womanist theologian, ethicist and minister, the Rev. Sofía Betancourt previously served as interim co-president of the UUA in 2017.
Why Deconstruction Isn’t Enough + Candice Marie Benbow
By Jonathan Woodward — May 4, 2022
Katelyn and Roxy talk with author and theologian Candice Marie Benbow who has some strong words of wisdom — and conviction — for anyone publicly critiquing the church.
The ‘Nap Bishop’ offers rest as a tool of resistance
By Kathryn Post — March 25, 2022
(RNS) — What if you could combat white supremacy and the soul-crushing attributes of capitalism while taking a restorative nap?
Christena Cleveland shifts from ‘white male God’ to ‘Sacred Black Feminine’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 8, 2022
(RNS) — The author of ‘God Is a Black Woman' said she’s a theist but ‘my understanding of God is not what most people would say is orthodox Christianity.’
Red Lip Theology: Candice Benbow’s love letter to Black women in the Black church
By Adelle M. Banks — January 18, 2022
(RNS) — Benbow says Black churches have tended to ‘center Black men and their truths and realities at the expense of women and girls.’
New documentary ‘Daughters of Eve’ imagines a Bible, and world, with women at the center
By Kathryn Post — December 15, 2021
(RNS) — The documentary invites Christians to reevaluate their beliefs about women's place in the Bible and the world.
Some call twerking obscene. Lizzo, in TED Talk, calls it ‘sacred’
By Kathryn Post — October 12, 2021
(RNS) — 'Twerking is a deep, soulful, spiritual practice,' said the singer and rapper.
Chanequa Walker-Barnes resurrects self-care as a Lenten practice
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 17, 2021
(RNS) — After a year in which everyone has already given up an awful lot, this Lent the theologian is inviting others to join her for the Resurrecting Self-Care Challenge.
Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology
By Adelle M. Banks — February 16, 2021
(RNS) — 'I'm really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material,' says the first woman dean of Howard University’s divinity school and the author of the new book, 'In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit.'
Activists call for justice, equal remembrance of Breonna Taylor on her 27th birthday
By Kathryn Post — June 5, 2020
(RNS) — On what would have been Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday, theologians and activists lament the insufficient response to her March murder; some see it as a symptom of the systemic devaluing of Black women.
Beyoncé Mass replaces hymns with ‘Survivor’ and ‘Flaws and All’
By Adelle M. Banks — March 10, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The Rev. Yolanda Norton, creator of Beyoncé Mass, said ‘this is not your grandma’s church,’ as she wore a 'Won’t SHE do it?!' T-shirt on the Kennedy Center stage.
Toni Morrison and the holiness of the living, breathing flesh
By Emilie M. Townes — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — What Morrison taught us is that the holy is both radically immanent and transcendent and in too much of our religious and theological thought we focus on the transcendent — at our peril.
Black women cracking ‘stained-glass ceilings’ with Jesus’ 7 last words
By Adelle M. Banks — April 18, 2019
(RNS) — At least a dozen churches across the country are hosting Good Friday services this year that feature seven African American female preachers speaking about the last sayings of Jesus.
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