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Empowered to Repair Becoming People Who Mend Broken Systems and Heal Our Communities Brenda Salter McNeil Award-winning author Brenda Salter McNeil shows that the biblical story of Nehemiah offers a model for repairing and rebuilding our broken communities. This guide activates people to join in God’s work of transformation in their local context. “This book is timely, powerful, and so very necessary. It must make its way into the hands of every pastor, congregant, and Christian who believes that there is a work of reconciliation yet to be done.” —WILLIE JAMES JENNINGS, Yale Divinity School “Dr. Brenda calls the people of God out of our places of comfort and into places of dissonance to embody God’s love and justice for the world.” —JULIE TAI, Fuller Seminary; cofounder of Kinship Commons Brenda Salter McNeil (DMin, Palmer Theological Seminary) is associate profes- sor of reconciliation studies and director of the Reconciliation Studies program at Seattle Pacific University. She is also associate pastor of preaching and reconciliation at Quest Church in Seattle. Womanish Theology Discovering God through the Lens of Black Girlhood Khristi Lauren Adams Khristi Lauren Adams’s faith was first shaped by her experiences as a Black girl—learning about Scripture from her grandmother, “playing church” with her cousins, and grieving the murder of her friend when she was just sixteen. In Womanish Theology, Adams draws on those experiences and the life stories of other Black girls to invite readers to learn from a new perspective. This groundbreaking book introduces a new branch of theological thought Adams calls womanish , as a play on womanist (the theology of Black womanhood). “Womanish,” recalls Adams, is a term Black mothers used for young girls as they grew more interested in doing grown-up things. Adams explores theological concepts such as Scripture, theodicy, salvation, prayer, neighborly love, and the image of God, showing that we can all learn from the spiritual insights of Black girls.
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