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The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.
How Christena Cleveland walked away from “whitemalegod”
The social psychologist went on a revolutionary pilgrimage in search of the sacred Black feminine.
by Denise Rector
Episode 15: Public theologian Christena Cleveland, author of God is a Black Woman
A conversation with public theologian Christena Cleveland about whitemalegod, fatherskygod, her pilgrimage in France, and more