CONTENTS

Introduction

Emilie M. Townes - On Creating Ruminations from the Soul

Part I Responsible , in Charge

Clarice J. Martin - Biblical Theodicy and Black Women´s Spiritual Autobiography / ´ The Miry Dog , the Desolate Pit , a New Song in my Mouth ´
Frances E. Wood - ´ Take My Yoke upon You ´ / the Role of the Church in the Oppression of African-American Women
Jamie T. Phelps O.P. - Joy Came in the Morning Risking Death for Resurrection / Confronting the Evil of Social Sin and Socially Sinful Structures

Part II It Wouldn´t Be The First Time

Marcia Y. Rigges - ´ A Clarion Call to Awake ! Arise ! Act ! ´ / the Response of the Black Women´s Club Movement to Institutionalized Moral Evil
Emilie M. Townes - Living in The New Jerusalem / the Rhetoric and Movement of Liberation in the House of Evil
Rosita deAnn Mathews- Using Power from the Periphery / an Alternative Theological Model for Survival in Systems

Part III Love´s The Spirit

M.Shawn Copeland - ´ Wading through Many Sorrows´ / Toward a Theology of Suffering in Womanist Perspective
Delores S. Williams - A Womanist Perspective on Sin
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan - African-American Spirituals / Confronting and Exorcising Evil through Song
Karen Baker-Fletcher - ´ Soprano Obligato ´ / the Voices of Black Women and American Conflict in the Thought of Anna Julia Cooper

Part IV As Purple is to Lavender

Patricia L.Hunter - Women´s Power - Women´s Passion / And God Said ´ That ´s Good ´
Jacquelyn Grant - The Sin of Servanthood / and the Deliverance of Discipleship
Katie Geneva Cannon - ´ The Wounds of Jesus ´ / Justification of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes - The ´ Loves ´ and´ Troubles ´ of African-American Women´s Bodies / the Womanist Challenge to Cultural Humiliation and Community Ambivalence