{"product_id":"truths-table-black-womens-musings-on-life-love-and-liberation-hardcover","title":"Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEkemini Uwan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristina Edmondson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichelle Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD - A collection of essays and stories documenting the lived theology and spirituality we need to hear in order to lean into a more freeing, loving, and liberating faith--from the hosts of the beloved \u003ci\u003eTruth's Table\u003c\/i\u003e podcast \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The liberating work of \u003ci\u003eTruth's Table\u003c\/i\u003e creates breathing room to finally have those conversations we've been needing to have.\"--Morgan Harper Nichols, artist and poet\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, an activist, a theologian, and a psychologist walked into a group chat. Everything was laid out on the table: Dating. Politics. The Black church. Pop culture. Soon, other Black women began pulling up chairs to gather round. And so, the \u003ci\u003eTruth's Table\u003c\/i\u003e podcast was born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn their literary debut, co-hosts Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins, and Ekemini Uwan offer stories by Black women and for Black women examining theology, politics, race, culture, and gender matters through a Christian lens. For anyone seeking to explore the spiritual dimensions of hot-button issues within the church, or anyone thirsty to deepen their faith, \u003ci\u003eTruth's Table\u003c\/i\u003e provides exactly the survival guide we need, including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Michelle Higgins's unforgettable treatise revealing the way \"racial reconciliation\" is a spiritually bankrupt, empty promise that can often drain us of the ability to do real justice work\u003cbr\u003e- Ekemini Uwan's exploration of Blackness as the image of God in the past, present, and future\u003cbr\u003e- Christina Edmondson's reimagination of what a more just and liberating form of church discipline might look like--one that acknowledges and speaks to the trauma in the room \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays deliver a compelling theological re-education and pair the spiritual formation and political education necessary for Black women of faith.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEkemini Uwan\u003c\/b\u003e is a public theologian, contributing writer for Hallmark Mahogany, and the Inaugural Theologian-in-Residence for the Black Christian Experience Resource Center. 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Her work and insights have been covered in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, The Guardian, Essence, \u003c\/i\u003e and CBS News.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e is senior pastor of Saint John's Church (The Beloved Community) in St. Louis, where she co-founded Faith for Justice, a collective of Christian activists, and serves as board chair of Action St. Louis, a political home for Black communities in the St. Louis region. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e Truth's Table \u003c\/i\u003epodcast\u003c\/b\u003e won the 2021 Best Black Religion and Spirituality Podcast award from the Black Podcasting Awards and was named by \u003ci\u003eThe New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e as one of its recommended \"Race Related\" podcasts. 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