Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective - 25th Anniversary EditionAdvance Praise & Reviews If a diagnosis is indispensable for a cure then the Black church and the Black community, as well as the church in general and White society, should take seriously this searingly honest yet sympathetic expos and then perhaps they may be set on the road to healing their ills.Archbishop Desmond Tutu This book is one of the most important works by an African American theologian in the past decade. . . . One wonders why we have

John Dear invites us to return to nonviolence as a way of life and a living solidarity with Mother Earth and her creatures

including the impact of Vatican II

is the author of many books

Donald Monan Professor of Moral Theology

“Yan invites readers to a ‘voyage of discovery’ to the unknown

radical and practical

The Ladder of the Beatitudes

founding religion editor for Publishers Weekly

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More recently he taught at the University of Notre Dame

Jim Douglass links the deaths of four of our greatest disrupters to a government mindset that set out to destroy them before they could change the world we knew

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