Kamilah Hall Sharp – författare

We Call Ourselves Disciples guides you through the diverse history, theology, worship, and mission of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Find your place in the Disciples' journey toward unity and wholeness, living your faith deeply within this vibrant tradition.You're invited to explore the heart of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). We Call Ourselves Disciples is your guide to understanding and living out your faith within the Disciples’ diverse yet unified tradition. Navigate the complexities of our history, theology, worship, sacraments (baptism, communion), commitment to social justice, global mission, Christian unity, and structure. Written by Disciples pastors and scholars, We Call Ourselves Disciples embraces the diversity of views as a source of strength, reflecting the vastness of God. Disciples theology is not a rigid doctrine but an open invitation to join an ongoing conversation, empowering you to embrace differences, navigate tensions, and find your place in our shared pursuit of unity and wholeness in a fragmented world.

This book integrates womanist biblical interpretation with trauma theory while closely examining survival and the language of survival in the Hebrew Bible. While survival is often a theme lifted when exploring Esther, the focus is typically on Jewish survival. This books centers the experiences of non-Jewish women and girls, specifically the virgin girls taken with Esther and Zeresh, the wife of Haman, amplifying their presence and reading their narratives alongside the autobiographies of Maya Angelou and Lezley McFadden to create a survival narrative that allows the reader to reimagine these often-overlooked girls and women.

A womanist church has great power to transform church and society, primarily because womanist theology centers the experiences of Black women while working for the survival and wholeness of all people and all creation. Experiences of the triple oppression of racism, sexism, and classism give Black women an epistemological insight into recognizing injustice and creating solutions that benefit all. The Gathering is unique, the only church founded and identified as "e;womanist,"e; applying womanist theology to the full life and worship of a church. The Gathering, a womanist faith community in Dallas, Texas, welcomes all people to partner in pursuing racial equity, LGBTQ equality, and dismantling PMS (patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism), following Jesus in liberating the oppressed and lifting up the marginalized. The Gathering, A Womanist Church tells the story of the birth and ongoing development of a womanist faith community. This book includes personal narratives of people transformed in this community, womanist co-pastors' sermons informed by their experiences and those of other Black women, and litanies for womanist worship.