Why I’m reading Nyasha Junior
If we want our biblical interpretation to align with the fullness of who Christ is, we need new lenses.
In Review
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Like many magazines, we generally only publish reviews of new books. But every once in a while, we ask a favorite writer: What's on your bookshelf—new or old—that you currently recommend?
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.
