Bible in Black - The Christian Bible from the Womanist Perspective
Bible Interpretation, Application and Encouragement for
Today's Black Woman
of the Clegy and the Academy
Welcome
Bible is Black is where Black women learn to see themselves in the Bible through
relevant interpretation, application and encouragement for living out our faith and religion in the world.
Ministry
Why Bible in Black is Here
Black women have always lived out their religious beliefs and faith. But for too long, Black women have been first to support in ministry and last to be heard.
This is not the case in the Bible.
The Bible teaches something seldom mentioned from the pulpit: God sees you, hears you, and loves you. Sure, many preachers have taught and said that God loves you, but not the essence of you. Not your Black female self. Not you in your urban or rural neighborhood. Not at your age. Not you in your job, fighting every day against racism, sexism, classism, and ageism, striving to make your life better than your parents and ancestors ever imagined. You've seldom heard the preacher talk about your specific, Black female issues. It makes you begin to think that maybe God, Jesus, and the Spirit didn't really see you, hear you, live in you or know you.
But that could not be further from the truth.
The truth is that the way we have always been taught the Bible is good, but not enough. Not far enough. Not deep enough. Not meeting the needs of Black women, living in the 21st century, enough. We need to read this ancient text and see how it practically applies to our contemporary lives.
Bible in Black addresses that need.
What We Believe
We believe that the Bible is the Word of God. It is God's love letter to all of humanity. Every person can find themselves in the Bible because God is not a respecter of persons.
God created human beings equal to each other as the image of God.
Human systems, however, have been created to disrupt God's equality. That systems perceives that white men are superior, first and supreme. Systems treat white men as if all other human beings are to be measured against them as the standard bearers. White women come next, because they are white and share in that privilege. However, white women are subject to a singular limitation based on their gender identity as woman, female and her. Black men, today, have only the small privilege of their gender, their maleness. They enjoy a slim advantage of centuries of misapplied superiority that the male gender identity affords. Black men, however, suffer. Their race, their Blackness, continues to subject them to the nastiness of our nation's most vile form of discrimination. Unfortunately, in their struggle for equality, they often do not include regard, revere or uphold Black women.
At the bottom of all of this, even after other people of color, is the Black woman. She disproportinately suffers through racism, sexism, and classism to merely survive. She has been the objectified mother, lover, laborer, administrator, cook, maid and prayer warrior for white men, white women and Black men, holding up society in every way. She too often gets access to the left overs, after white men, white women and Black men allow her to have that access with limited permission. Thus, sometimes, she can barely get by. But she keeps on keeping on. Though she has for too long been denied a voice, a position and a leading role in society, she has almost single-handedly kept the home and the business alive and running. Too often at the expense of her own life, health, wellness and finances.
The saddest reality of all is that it is no where more true than in the Christian church and in Bible interpretation and application, that Black women are overlooked and undervalued.
Still, she stands.
We believe God never intended these limitations on Black women.
We believe the Bible proves this.
We believe that Bible interpretation and application that prioritizes the life, legacy, literacy, leadership, and liberating love of Black women is proper and right.
We believe Black women deserve to know who God says they are and to live this truth religiously.
Today, Tomorrow and Eternally.
Our Community
Bible in Black is for Black women who want to know what God has to say to them through the Bible and through the words and wosdom of other Black women.
Bible in Black is for Black women who want to apply the teachings and wisdom of the Bible in the lives today.
Bible in Black is for Black women who love God, want to love God, seek to live out God's plan for their lives by knowing that God does not discriminate against them because of their
race, color, gender, class or age.
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