To be a millennial woman of African descent means that blackness is not an afterthought but a foundational reality from which all else departs.
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I believe that we must challenge traditional models of “networking,” and articulate what healthy, fruitful, mutually challenging and sisterly relationships look and feel like.
As a recovering church boy, I am the product of Holy Ghost filled church mothers and deaconesses, anointed, unlicensed and unordained prophetesses, and Black women who cook in church kitchens, and clean and usher in sanctuaries.
The Womanist Challenge of Self-Examination and Truth-Telling for Black Millennial Men
If what we create will shape others, whether we mean for it to or not, then we have to do it on purpose.
By Racquel Gill, Being a millennial woman of African descent in ministry is to acknowledge that I represent an institution of complexity. I am learning to appreciate how the black church has been a healing station throughout generations while also mourning how it has served as a site of trauma. When there were so few […]
If the black church is the home of black genius and social engagement, the Millennial Womanist is the necessary architect.
One reality is that spiritual activism and faith advocacy through relationship building, autoethnography, and social media has its own set of struggles. However, it is a way to make information a bit more publicly accessible.
The soil is fertile and new seeds are ready to be planted. We invite you to meet us in the garden.
DOWNLOAD – OH SAY CAN YOU SEE- LITANY AUTHOR’S BIOS Rev. Melanie C. Jones, M.Div. is a womanist ethicist, millennial preacher, and intellectual activist. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Ethics, Theology and Culture at Chicago Theological Seminary. Her doctoral dissertation entitled “Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Character […]
