Author: myfaithandsocialjustice

As an older GenZer, I have complicated feelings about the Church as an institution. I’ve grown up in Black Baptist churches, Black nondenominational churches, and multiracial nondenominational churches. And I think there’s something each of them have to offer that I’ve struggled to find. I appreciate the history and legacy of the Black Church as… Continue reading A Gen Z Take on the Future of the Church

This project was part of a ministry exploration project that I began in August of 2021 with funding from the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE). Around that time, I began to explore what it would mean for me to identify as a womanist and work to understand my ministry call as that focused on the… Continue reading An Introduction to the Project

The interviews in this project make evident the ways that theology is a matter of life and death. One interview even uses this language. In my first semester of seminary, one of my professors shared that our theology and hermeneutics or Biblical interpretation is a matter of life and death. That has stuck with me,… Continue reading Theology: A Matter of Life and Death

Pastor, Scholar, Program Manager Describing the Work I’m a womanist for sure. I have a womanist Biblical interpretation and a womanist theological foundation. If you understand womanist thinking from the beginning when Alice Walker wrote her book and then when all of the scholars like Renita Weems and Patricia Hill, Emile Townes, Cheryl Sanders, all… Continue reading An Interview with Rev. Dr. Paula Hall

I want to take time to thank those who supported me and made this project possible. First, I am so grateful to the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE) for providing me with a ministry exploration grant that allowed me to complete this project. It was at the 2021 virtual Christian Leadership Forum where we were… Continue reading Acknowledgements for the Project