In Review
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Westminster John Knox
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The late black tennis legend Arthur Ashe once shared about his childhood experience with a white male God: “Every Sunday, Arthur Jr. had to go to church, either First Presbyterian or Westwood Baptist, where his parents had met, and where he would look up at a picture of Christ with blond hair and blue eyes and wonder if God was on his side.”
I’m like Ashe. I was raised by black parents and in black church spaces, but I was implicitly taught by US culture that God is a white man whose social location is distant from people on the margins.
