Writing with African American women in mind, Renita Weems probes beneath the surface to find out how the women of Scripture felt about themselves-by looking at how they treated other women. Believing that a common thread of sacred female experiences continues to bind centuries of women, Weems offers the hope that "we are just a sister away from our healing." In nine chapters, Weems examines the relationships of Hagar and Sarah, Naomi and Ruth, Martha and Mary, Jephthah's Daughter and the mourning women, Miriam and her sister-in-law, the women who followed Jesus, Vashti and Esther, Elizabeth and Mary, and Lot's Wife and her daughters. Each chapter includes study questions for group discussion. "A milestone in women's literature . . . that connects women today across class, culture, race, and time. Renita Weems is one of the most important thinkers of our time."-Susan Taylor, Editor-in-Chief, Essence Magazine

Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible

Politics & Social Sciences

Weems, Renita J.

Social Sciences

Publishing/Editing Network

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No Time For Nonsense

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jevne, Ronna

Levitan, Alexander

Diseases & Physical Ailments

To love Delilah: Claiming the Women of the Bible

Religion & Spirituality

Cartledge-Hayes, Mary

Christian Books & Bibles

From Library Journal\nAn associate professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and contributor to Essence magazine, Weems explores her own relationships and the pain women suffer as a result of rejection and violence. Weems relates her struggles to articulate her sense of "fundamentally a righteous stand: a woman's right to love whoever finds her lovely," a stand expressed through her own experience of being "sent out, left out, and kept out because I am different." This work is a simple yet profound series of meditations on the value of love, relationships, and intimacy that articulate an African American woman's experience but have universal value. It is recommended for public libraries. 
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings

Parenting & Relationships

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Gift Of The Dark Angel

Keiffer, Ann

Biographies & Memoirs

Drawing From The Woman's Well (The Women's series)

Drawing From The Woman's Well

Borton, Joan Cannon

Psychology & Counseling

Re-imagining women's history in order to reclaim it, Katherine Schneider-Aker employs the age old Jewish rabbinical device of the midrash, a commentary on Scripture that takes off from the text in order to reflect upon its meaning. In this extraordinary narratve, an imaginary twin sister of Jesus, "D'vorah" recreates the world of biblical times through the perspective of female lens. As Jesus tells the good news to men, "D'vorah" brings it to the forgotten, abused and undervalued women of that time and culture.

God's Forgotten Daughter: What If Jesus Had Been a Woman? (The Women's Series)

Schneider-Aker, Katherine Christine

Literature & Fiction

POTTERY LEADING US TO PARABLES AND METAPHORS, TAKING THE POTTER'S WHEEL INTO THE SACRED SPACE AND SPEAKS FROM IT.

This Is My Body: Creativity, Clay, and Change

Bankson, Marjory Zoet

Self-Help

Re-Souled

Goodson, William

J, Dale

I Sit Listening to the Wind is the newly revised companion volume to the classic Circle of Stones. As Judith Duerk powerfully shows, the world is crying out for a developed Feminine voice, a voice that can mediate, once again, the ancient values of the Feminine. These are values of interiority and of the sacredness of the earth, that honor the privacy of individual process; values of the deeper Self held within us all. Many women experience a battle within themselves between the critical, dismissing voice of their masculine side and the interior, self-sustaining voice of their feminine side. Without coming to terms and seeking balance with our masculine side, our feminine side can never reach its full potential. For those seeking balance between the masculine urge to DO and the feminine desire to BE, Duerk's mixture of prose, poetry, and reflective questions creates a model for integration.

I Sit Listening To The Wind

Duerk, Judith

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