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Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
by Julian DeShazier
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.
by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Womanist theologian Delores Williams dies at 88
by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Encountering the sacred Black feminine
“God’s social location is nowhere near women or Black people. I had to start looking for an image of the Divine that can speak to that.”
Cassidy Hall interviews Christena Cleveland
Taking womanist theology to the beauty shop
“My mama was womanist. My grandma is womanist. Just because they don’t have the language or the identifier doesn’t make them less womanist.”
Annelisa Burns interviews Candice Benbow
Religious historian, Muslim womanist Debra Majeed dies at 68
Presbyterian Historial Society begins work on Katie Geneva Cannon digitial archive
Groundbreaking Lutheran educator Cheryl Stewart Pero dies at 69
Womanist leadership center awarded grant