A Real Black Woman Is the Closest Thing to God

A Real Black Woman Is the Closest Thing to God
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781467847186
ISBN-13 : 1467847186
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis A Real Black Woman Is the Closest Thing to God by : A Blessing in Disguise

Shocking! Breath taking! This is one that will shake your soul. Maurice Black A.K.A Scooby is a Washington D.C Thug and Hustler with the gift of gab of a Gemini. It seems like he can control everything but time. One way or another he finds a way to get what he wants in life. However his life in the fast lane is causing him to overlook his unique girlfriend Christina. A spontaneous flirt with death causes him to move his life in another direction. An eye opening experience, A Real Black Woman is The Closest thing to God is a straight forward and mesmerizing novel that A Blessing in Disguise has managed to puzzle together in ways that are multidimensional. Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is - Jorge Luis Borges

God Is a Black Woman

God Is a Black Woman
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780062988805
ISBN-13 : 0062988808
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis God Is a Black Woman by : Christena Cleveland

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural “whitemalegod” and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence. For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she’d been implicitly taught to worship—a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America’s collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.

Red Lip Theology

Red Lip Theology
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Publisher : Convergent Books
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780593238462
ISBN-13 : 059323846X
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Lip Theology by : Candice Marie Benbow

A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and opening new levels of understanding and ideological transformation for non-Black women and allies “Candice Marie Benbow is a once-in-a-generation theologian, the kind who, having ground dogma into dust with the fine point of a stiletto, leads us into the wide-open spaces of faith.”—Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage and co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection Blurring the boundaries of righteous and irreverent, Red Lip Theology invites us to discover freedom in a progressive Christian faith that incorporates activism, feminism, and radical authenticity. Essayist and theologian Candice Marie Benbow’s essays explore universal themes like heartache, loss, forgiveness, and sexuality, and she unflinchingly empowers women who struggle with feeling loved and nurtured by church culture. Benbow writes powerfully about experiences at the heart of her Black womanhood. In honoring her single mother’s love and triumphs—and mourning her unexpected passing—she finds herself forced to shed restrictions she’d been taught to place on her faith practice. And by embracing alternative spirituality and womanist theology, and confronting staid attitudes on body positivity and LGBTQ+ rights, Benbow challenges religious institutions, faith leaders, and communities to reimagine how faith can be a tool of liberation and transformation for women and girls.

Too Heavy a Yoke

Too Heavy a Yoke
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781630871925
ISBN-13 : 1630871923
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Too Heavy a Yoke by : Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Black women are strong. At least that's what everyone says and how they are constantly depicted. But what, exactly, does this strength entail? And what price do Black women pay for it? In this book, the author, a psychologist and pastoral theologian, examines the burdensome yoke that the ideology of the Strong Black Woman places upon African American women. She demonstrates how the three core features of the ideology--emotional strength, caregiving, and independence--constrain the lives of African American women and predispose them to physical and emotional health problems, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and anxiety. She traces the historical, social, and theological influences that resulted in the evolution and maintenance of the Strong Black Woman, including the Christian church, R & B and hip-hop artists, and popular television and film. Drawing upon womanist pastoral theology and twelve-step philosophy, she calls upon pastoral caregivers to aid in the healing of African American women's identities and crafts a twelve-step program for Strong Black Women in recovery.

A Black Woman's Worth

A Black Woman's Worth
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781467843645
ISBN-13 : 1467843644
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis A Black Woman's Worth by : Seven

Come take a journey into the lives of many different types of black women struggles. This book will help the world especially black men to get in tuned with the trials & Tribulations of black women, which is the key to black men survival. The first time in the history of modern day mankind the joy, pain, and suffering of the most mysterious and misunderstood advanced creature on earth will be exposed in detail. In order to truly understand somebody you will have to look at the world through their eyes. Its easy to assume looking outside in but the truth comes from looking inside out. This book will reveal the amazing strength of black women and how they are the closest thing to God because they have been whipped, mocked, lied to, betrayed and taken for granted just like the savior Jesus the Christ did at Calvary. Now take a deep breath, relax, drink some lemonade and clear your mind and behold a black womans worth. The man that finds a wife finds a treasure and receives favor from the lord - Proverbs 18:22 We dont see things as they are. We see them as we are. - Anis Nin A person can become supernatural by simply being simple - Allan Williams Denying the truth will never change it and sin is never removed by denying its existence. - Jeremiah 7 Karma is Gods girlfriend - Allan Williams

The Strong Black Woman

The Strong Black Woman
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Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 9781642506846
ISBN-13 : 1642506842
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Strong Black Woman by : Marita Golden

Major Health Crisis Among Black Women Generated from Systemic Racism “Marita Golden’s The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims ‘Black don’t crack.’” ―Karen Arrington, coach, mentor, philanthropist, and author of NAACP Image Award-winning Your Next Level Life Sarton Women’s Book Award #1 New Release in Reference Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care. The Strong Black Woman Syndrome. For generations, in response to systemic racism, Black women and African American culture created the persona of the Strong Black Woman, a woman who, motivated by service and sacrifice, handles, manages, and overcomes any problem, any obstacle. The syndrome calls on Black women to be the problem-solvers and chief caretakers for everyone in their lives―never buckling, never feeling vulnerable, and never bothering with their pain. Hidden mental health crisis of anxiety and depression. To be a Black woman in America is to know you cannot protect your children or guarantee their safety, your value is consistently questioned, and even being “twice as good” is often not good enough. Consequently, Black women disproportionately experience anxiety and depression. Studies now conclusively connect racism and mental health―and physical health. Take care of your emotional health. You deserve to be emotionally healthy for yourself and those you love. More and more young Black women are re-examining the Strong Black Woman syndrome and engaging in self-care practices that change their lives. Hear stories of Black women who: Asked for help Built lives that offer healing Learned to accept healing If you have read The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health, The Racial Healing Handbook, or Black Fatigue, The Strong Black Woman is your next read.

Karma Is God's Girlfriend

Karma Is God's Girlfriend
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9781452004327
ISBN-13 : 1452004323
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Karma Is God's Girlfriend by : Allan Williams

God and his girlfriend Karma is not concerned about people's materialistic, superficial and worldly possessions. They are only concerned about your life, well being, and spiritual connection to God. God is aware of the desires of people's hearts and he will give the people that are close to him most of them as long as their desires don't take the attention from him. Keep in mind that attention equals worship. Whatever a person pays the most attention to that is what they are directly or indirectly worshiping. See God is a jealous creator because he knows that no person or thing can love a person more than him. God doesn't want anyone or anything in existence to take up more space in a person's mind except him. That includes a person's job, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, children, luxurious house, new car, money, clothes, image or looks. This book is a 93% collection of modern day proverbs, wise quotes and sayings created by the spirit of discernment a.k.a Allan Williams. This book is designed to make people laugh, think, worship and discuss meaningful issues in life that most people will never and have never thought or talked about. This book is not meant to offend anyone but if the shoe fits then why not wear it? Nobody on this planet is perfect. Life is a growing process but unfortunately most people stop their own growth by thinking they know everything or too scared to confront or admit to their sins. However the Holy Bible says in James 5:16 - Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed.

A Black Man's Worth

A Black Man's Worth
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9781467066808
ISBN-13 : 146706680X
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis A Black Man's Worth by : Allan Williams

Are you ready to take a tour inside of many different types of black men souls in this modern day and age? This book will reveal the butt naked truth about the secret thoughts, desires, and mentalities that black men will never expose to black women or to the world in general. The black man has been mentally sleep in a zombie state for several centuries. However even in his drowsy mode he is able to make history that mind boggles the world to this day. Its not a mystery that the first man and people on earth were black well dark green at that time from interbreeding with the star beings A.K.A gods from the star system Sirius in the Orion ConstellationJ. The pyramids in Egypt were built by the hands of black people that were using a higher percentage of their brains, souls, and most importantly spirits. The Bible said as in heaven as it is on earth. Jesus the Christ would be labeled as a black man physically but its not about color. It is written that out of the darkness came the light. The Universe is filled with circles and cycles. The Universe is just a galactic black female that gives birth to planets and new life forms. Every race and culture on the planet is Gods children. However in this book we are strictly dealing with a black mans worth. Behold and awaken the miracle of a black mans worth. From the heavenly star seed author that wrote God dont like fake people, A black womans worth, Storetry, For what its worth, Karma is Gods girlfriend, and A real black woman is the closest thing to God. Proverbs 31:10-10 Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

God Don't Like Fake People

God Don't Like Fake People
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9781467839204
ISBN-13 : 1467839205
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis God Don't Like Fake People by : The Seed of Solomon

Are you tired of dealing with fake people? Does it seem like every time you put trust in your family and friends they come up short and backstab you? Does it seem like every time you try to get in a relationship you later find out that they are the opposite of what you thought they were when you first met them? Does it seems like you are walking in place and everybody that is in your circle doesnt have you in their best interest and is selfishly trying to milk and drain you. If you can relate to all or some of those situations then you are dealing with fake people. This book entitled God dont like fake people is a spiritual Guide to better relationships with people and God. This is a Bible based book that shines the light on many blind spots in your soul that may be causing you to keep experiencing regretful and disappointing situations in life. This small book is like a heavenly vitamin that will help replenish your mental and spiritual cells. This book is the rebirth of an ancient style of writing. Therefore after reading this nontraditional book you will no longer look at the world the same. This book is not like any other book that you have read in you life. Therefore you must read this legendary book with an open heart and mind as if you were a child. The seed of Solomon A.K.A Allan Williams is an anointed student of God that has dedicated his life to inspire people to seek God and the truth. Its better to be criticized by a wise person than to be praised by a fool. - Ecclesiastes 7:5 We dont see things as they are. We see them as we are. - Anis Nin If you want what you cant have, you will never have what you want - Allan Williams