Candice Benbow is a theologian, writer, and educator whose work focuses on Black women’s shared faith experiences. She created the #LemonadeSyllabus social media campaign and established the ...

Womanist theology today has come a mighty long way from its earliest beginnings in response to Alice Walker's lifting up of the term "womanist." It began with Black women and women of color exploring ...

No wonder there are so many Jezebels, Delilahs, Eves and other women of unsavory description in the Bible. The Bible was written by men, whose cultural bias was reflected in the stories of women, says ...

I am a white, middle-class woman of European descent--Portuguese and Italian--who was raised in the Catholic Church. I have a Ph.D. I tell you this because an awareness of social location is ...

Womanist theology is a way of understanding God and the world that focuses on the experiences and views of Black women, according to Trinity's website, including the intersectionality of race, class ...

This is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage. Yolanda Pierce, professor and dean at the ...

Continuing the yearlong series on the Black church in Detroit, produced in partnership with the Ecumenical Theological Seminary and Charles H. Wright Museum of African American history. Today, a look ...

The Rev. Katie Cannon, the first black woman to be ordained in a leading branch of Presbyterianism and a groundbreaking scholar who helped elevate the perspective of black women in church and academic ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon was a theology trailblazer, pushing past boundaries to become the first Black woman in the United States to be ordained in the Presbyterian Church.