Download or read book God Is a Black Woman written by Christena Cleveland and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural “whitemalegod” and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence. For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she’d been implicitly taught to worship—a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America’s collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.

Download or read book The Black Woman written by Nuri Muhammad and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A woman's heart should be so lost in God, that a man has to find Him to get her."-Nuri Muhammad The wicked of this world see the Black woman as object of pleasure and perverse admiration mixed with toxic disdain, the truth is we are the most favored of women the world over. For we are Allah (God's) woman and His personal choice. All Praise is Due to Allah. Nuri Muhammad echoes his teacher, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who echoes his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in his new book, The Black Woman: The Second Self of God the Black woman must be respected and protected. The Black Woman: The Second Self of God takes an in-depth look at the Proverbs 31 Woman while simultaneously examining the Woman of Amram, Maryam, the mother of Jesus. Treating this subject matter with historical accuracy and modern application, The Black Woman: The Second Self of God seeks to focus the mind and the spirit of the Black woman on that which is real and unfailing, her relationship with Allah (God). In this latest offering, the reader will find humor, truth, and thought provoking ideas that challenge stagnation, false perceptions and ideological cowardice. In the Garden of the Beloved, every flower has a purpose and so too does every Black woman, for truly she is what she is: God's Second Self and All Praise is Due to Allah."God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day..." Pslams 46:5 Traci C. Muhammad

Download or read book Summary of Christena Cleveland s God Is a Black Woman written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had traveled to central France to see the Black Madonna of Mauriac, a dark-skinned version of the Virgin Mary. I had longed to see a sacred image of Black femininity, and I was finally able to do so. But I was also nervous about being punished for breaking the rules. #2 The delegitimizing stereotype of sloppy, dirty, lazy, and worthless is often used against Black people. And women have always been saddled with the mischievous stereotype, especially when we disregard social norms and do unthinkable things like call out a scholar’s racism. #3 I had to hide out in a European toilet room after setting off the alarm at the basilica of Mauriac. I knew I couldn’t hide my Black skin, so I tried to disguise myself by putting on a hat and black sunglasses. #4 I was eventually able to hide in a chocolate shop, and the owner, Martine, gave me a corner table away from the window. I was still on edge, waiting for the French police to burst in and arrest me.

Download or read book A Black Woman s Worth written by Seven and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come take a journey into the lives of many different types of black women struggles. This book will help the world especially black men to get in tuned with the trials & Tribulations of black women, which is the key to black men survival. The first time in the history of modern day mankind the joy, pain, and suffering of the most mysterious and misunderstood advanced creature on earth will be exposed in detail. In order to truly understand somebody you will have to look at the world through their eyes. Its easy to assume looking outside in but the truth comes from looking inside out. This book will reveal the amazing strength of black women and how they are the closest thing to God because they have been whipped, mocked, lied to, betrayed and taken for granted just like the savior Jesus the Christ did at Calvary. Now take a deep breath, relax, drink some lemonade and clear your mind and behold a black womans worth. The man that finds a wife finds a treasure and receives favor from the lord - Proverbs 18:22 We dont see things as they are. We see them as we are. - Anis Nin A person can become supernatural by simply being simple - Allan Williams Denying the truth will never change it and sin is never removed by denying its existence. - Jeremiah 7 Karma is Gods girlfriend - Allan Williams

Download or read book Why Bad Things Happen to Good Black Women Where Is God written by Clinton L. Black and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most fiercely urgent question I have ever wanted to ask God iswhy does He allow bad things to happen to good Black women? This is precisely what this inspiring new book is about. Why Bad Things Happen to Good Black Women concerns itself exclusively to the exaltation and empowerment of Black women! This is an uniquely inspiring and educational book that clearly explains why things happen in life the way they do. Indeed, everything does happen for a reason and this encouraging new book plainly reveals Gods reasons for your difficult times. As a good Black woman, you can personally benefit from the cheering and reassuring knowledge this stirring book offers. With Gods words, this unique book will show you how to transform your adversities and misfortunes in life into peace and happiness. You will be highly uplifted by the joyful messages in these nurturing words. Why Bad Things Happen to Good Black Women is right on time and its amazing inspiration can help you heal. Certainly, everyone goes through their own ups and downs in life. However, Black women in particular endure unequal treatment in life as they faithfully work and pray to achieve their personal goals and simultaneously do Gods will. All the racism, sexism, mistreatment and unequal treatment that people inflict upon good Black girls and Black women today puts you at an exceptionally inappropriate disadvantage from the very beginning. Sometimes, it appears that you are no one to the world, but to me, you are the world! Many Black women can relate to the same circumstances and situations in life. Others know intimate misfortunes that no one else understands. Your specific circumstances and situations are personal. However, all of the good Black women in the world share a common answer to all of their problems. The answer is Jesus Christ!Congratulations and welcome!

Download or read book She Speaks written by Michele Clark Jenkins and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Speaks helps African-American women find relevance, purpose, and identity in the Word of God. Each chapter offers a complete list of references to help the reader locate the stories of these inspirational women in the Bible with ease.

Download or read book Our Voices written by Amanda Johnson and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the key issues facing black women in America today? Does God's Word offer guidance in how to navigate the realities and difficulties posed by those issues? After surveying black women across America to determine which topics are heaviest on their hearts, the authors of Our Voices present a very personal and practical overview. Ten women share with the reader their journeys and what they have learned from God's Word about His perspective on key issues facing them as black women. This book provides a powerful challenge to the reader to walk in obedience to God's Word, amid a culture that is bent on rebellion and that beckons us to do likewise.

Download or read book Sex Race and God written by Susan Thistlethwaite and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sex, Race, and God is the impassioned manifesto of a white feminist's reckoning with the meaning of race-including her own whiteness-in doing theology. We should be discussing, and acting on many of Thistlethwaite's insights for quite some time. She has made a vital contribution to the feminist theological enterprise and to the critical relationship between back and white women in it."-Carter Heyward"Sex, Race, and God is a sincere attempt to listen to and learn from African-American women. . . a serious and largely successful effort to create a method that addresses differences rather than proposing wishful commonalities. Many women of color will find it promising a basis for dialogue."-The Women's Review of Books"This pivotal book illuminates a significant ongoing debate at the intersection of two fields: contemporary theology and feminist studies."-Choice"Thistlethwaite does what so few white feminists have done: genuinely interact with (and learn from) the strong differences in experience and perspective between African -American women and European-American women."-The Other Side

Download or read book GOD IS ALL YOU NEED written by VERONICA. HUNNICUTT and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Truth s Table written by Ekemini Uwan and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and stories documenting the lived theology and spirituality we need to hear in order to lean into a more freeing, loving, and liberating faith—from the hosts of the beloved Truth’s Table podcast “The liberating work of Truth’s Table creates breathing room to finally have those conversations we’ve been needing to have.”—Morgan Harper Nichols, artist and poet Once upon a time, an activist, a theologian, and a psychologist walked into a group chat. Everything was laid out on the table: Dating. Politics. The Black church. Pop culture. Soon, other Black women began pulling up chairs to gather round. And so, the Truth’s Table podcast was born. In their literary debut, co-hosts Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins, and Ekemini Uwan offer stories by Black women and for Black women examining theology, politics, race, culture, and gender matters through a Christian lens. For anyone seeking to explore the spiritual dimensions of hot-button issues within the church, or anyone thirsty to deepen their faith, Truth’s Table provides exactly the survival guide we need, including: • Michelle Higgins’s unforgettable treatise revealing the way “racial reconciliation” is a spiritually bankrupt, empty promise that can often drain us of the ability to do real justice work • Ekemini Uwan’s exploration of Blackness as the image of God in the past, present, and future • Christina Edmondson’s reimagination of what a more just and liberating form of church discipline might look like—one that acknowledges and speaks to the trauma in the room These essays deliver a compelling theological re-education and pair the spiritual formation and political education necessary for Black women of faith.

Download or read book Lesser Known People of The Bible Black Women written by Dante Fortson and published by Dante Fortson. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only is the Bible full of strong women… it is full of strong black women. While it is often underplayed by mainstream Christianity, the majority of the Bible took place in Africa, and involved many women of color. In this study we'll look at the lives and lineages of the following women: + Hagar - Abraham's Egyptian wife. + Tamar - The Canaanite mother of Judah's twin sons. + Miriam - The older sister of Moses + Zipporah - Moses' Midianite wife. + Bathsheba - King Solomon's Canaanite mother. + Jezebel - King Ahab's wife from the line of Ham. + The Queen of Sheba - The Ethiopia queen that came to visit King Solomon. + Mary Magdalene - The woman with seven devils cast out by Christ. The presence of these women in the Bible is often a sticking point for many because most of them descended from the line of Ham. Those that didn't come from the line of Ham were Hebrews, which were often mistaken as descendants of Ham. If you've never done a study on who these women are, which lines they come from, and the roles they play in history, then make sure you grab this book.

Download or read book The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book God Is a Black Woman written by Yara Polana and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yara, a native of Mozambique, have written, designed and illustrated this poetic and interesting story, based on her experience of being brought up in a country that is truly multi-ethnic and multi-tribal community of 24 million people. The story is inspired by a matriarchal tribe, The Macua, and blends in background and myths of other tribes, creating a fable that shares much with well known Creation Myths of many regions and epochs of the world. The Author wrote this book in hopes to place myself squarely with those who are committed to peace, in every sense of that word. This includes peace between the genders, the races, the Faiths, as well as our painful common history. She also identifies strongly with the many efforts to resurrect The Sacred Feminine, so its long overdue merging with a largely unguided and love-starved Sacred Masculine, can be brought into common awareness. The Author believes that many African tribes illustrate the strength that Community, in its best sense, gives to its individual members. Some also illustrate the ways in which communities are led from their path, when fear rules. Knowing our spiritual stories and histories can prevent repetition of our most catastrophic mistakes, and that may well happen if we sincerely so, wish.

Download or read book White Women s Christ and Black Women s Jesus written by Jacquelyn Grant and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christology is especially problematic for feminists. Because Jesus was undeniably male and because the Christian church claims him as the unique God-bearer, feminist christology confronts the dual tasks of explaining the significance of a male God-bearer for women and creating a christological model adequate to feminist experience. Jacquelyn Grant rehearses the development and challenges of feminist christology and argues that, because it has reflected the experience of White women predominantly, it fails to speak to the concerns of non-white and non-western women. In response to this failure, Grant proposes a womanist theology and christology that emerge from and are adequate to the reality of contemporary Black women.

Download or read book Sisters in the Wilderness written by Dolores S. Williams and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work first published 20 years ago helped establish the field of African-American womanist theology. It is widely regarded as a classic text in the field. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagar mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God Williams finds a proptype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile, surrogate mother, Hagar's story provides an image of survival and defiance appropriate to black women today. Exploring the themes implicit in Hagar's story poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God Williams traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery to the present day. A new womanist theology emerges from this shared experience, from the interplay of oppressions on account of race, sex and class. Sisters in the Wilderness offers a telling critique of theologies that promote "liberation" but ignore women of color. This is a book that defined a new theological project and charted a path that others continue to explore.

Download or read book God s Wisdom from Biblical Women to African American Women written by REV Elizabeth Pettiford McCoy M DIV and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOD'S WISDOM from BIBICAL WOMEN to AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN is a religious book discussing women of all ages, cultures, nationalities, and generations who sought God's revelation through His Word, the Holy Bible. These women believed, trusted, and had continuous "faith" that the Lord will see them though any incurred diversity of life. This empowered faith offered words of wisdom and assistance for these women to trust and have confidence in God. It talks of "giants" these women faced daily and how to defeat them. These women include: Women of the Old Testament, the New Testament, African-American "Firsts," the "Yes, We Still Can" Women movement of the Obama Era, and more "Distinguished Women" of today who have made a difference in today's society. Reverend Elizabeth Pettiford McCoy is an associate pastor of Lawson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Roxboro, North Carolina, a mother, a grandmother, a sister, a retired school counselor and Bible School teacher, but most of all she is a "Child of God." She is also a community leader with a "Masters in Divinity." She believes in education and assisting others to learn of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This book is her debut in publishing God's Word. It shows a powerful comparison in "Women of the Bible" and "Hard Working African-American Women" of the past and today. I thank God for given her the courage, vision and agility to write this book.

Download or read book A Real Black Woman Is the Closest Thing to God written by A Blessing in Disguise and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking! Breath taking! This is one that will shake your soul. Maurice Black A.K.A Scooby is a Washington D.C Thug and Hustler with the gift of gab of a Gemini. It seems like he can control everything but time. One way or another he finds a way to get what he wants in life. However his life in the fast lane is causing him to overlook his unique girlfriend Christina. A spontaneous flirt with death causes him to move his life in another direction. An eye opening experience, A Real Black Woman is The Closest thing to God is a straight forward and mesmerizing novel that A Blessing in Disguise has managed to puzzle together in ways that are multidimensional. Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is - Jorge Luis Borges