Selected Publications
Books
Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights, Fortress, 2003.
Unraveling and Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Womanhood, Lexington Books (a division of Roman and Littlefield), 2015 (Co-editor with Rose Mary Amenga-Etego).
Journal
Black Women and Religious Cultures
Articles and Book Chapters
Hope Is as Strong as a Woman’s Arm: Proceedings – 2018 Consultation of African and African Diasporan Women in Religion and Theology, Special Issue, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, Volume 7, Issue 1, July 2016 (Co-editor with Evelyn L. Parker).
Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Lives Matter, and the Great “World House,” Afterword, The Great World House in the 21st Century: Reclaiming the Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. Vicki L. Crawford and Lewis V. Baldwin, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
“Optimal Health for Their Whole Lives: Social Ethics, Freedom, and Black Women’s Health,” Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities, VII, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 53-64.
“‘Now, Who Are Your People’: Continental and Diasporan African Women Encounter Each Other” in Transkulturelle Begegnungen und Interreligiöser Dialog [Transcultural Encounter and Interreligious Dialogue] ed. Uta Andrée, Ruomin Liu, Sönke Lorberg-Fehring, 249-266, Missionshilfe Verlag, 2017.
“Leading in Challenging Times: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ruby Hurley, and the Meaning of Black Leadership” (with Shirley T. Geiger) in The Domestication of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy, ed. Lewis V. Baldwin and Rufus Burrow, Jr., Cascade Books Division of Wipf and Stock, 2013.
“Ruby Hurley, U.S. Protestantism, and NAACP Student Work, 1940 to 1950” in From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights, ed. R. Drew Smith, 65-83, State University of New York, 2013.
“Black Theology and the History of U.S. Black Religions: Post Civil Rights Approaches to the Study of African American Religions,” Religion Compass 6, no. 4 (2012): 249–261.
“Overcoming Misinterpretation and Irrationality: Ethics at the Intersection of Social Justice, Liberation, and Civil/Human Rights” in Religious Education, 107 no. 3 (May-June 2012): 241-245.
“Beyond Christianization: Reconciling Spiritual and Intellectual Resources in African American Christianity” in Ethics that Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources, ed. Marcia Y. Riggs and James Logan, Fortress, 2012.
“John Howard Yoder on Pacifism” in Beyond the Pale: Reading Ethics from the Margins, ed. Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas and Miguel A De La Torre, Westminster/John Knox, 2011.
“Resisting the Imperial Peace: Black Women and Self-Love,” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Religion 1, no. 13.9 (December 2010).
“Theological Perspective” Advent 1, 2, and 3 in Feasting on the Word, Year C, Volume 1, ed. David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, Westminster John Knox, 2009. This text won the Association of Theological Booksellers Theologus Book of the Year Award.
“For People Lacking Affordable Housing” in To Do Justice: A Guide for Progressive Christians, ed. Rebecca Todd Peters and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, Westminster John Knox, 2008.
“Rural Southern Black Women in the United States” in The Peoples’ History of Christianity, Volume 7, ed. Mary Farrell Bednarowski, Fortress, 2008.
“Contextualizing Womanist/Feminist Critical Thought and Praxis” in Spotlight on Theological Education 2, no. 1 (March 2008): vii.
“Sojourner Truth,” in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, ed. John H. Moore, Gale, 2007.
“Lessons and Treasures in Our Mothers’ Witness: Why I Write about Black Women’s Activism” in Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society, ed. Stacey Floyd-Thomas, New York University, 2006.
“The Civil Rights Movement” in Encyclopedia of Women in Religion in America, Volume 3, ed. Rosemary Keller and Rosemary Radford Reuther, Indiana University, 2006. This collection won the 2006 American Historical Association’s Waldo G. Leland Prize and the 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.
“What Has Happened to Us?” with Marsha Snulligan Haney and Tumani Mutasa Nyajeka in Africentric Approaches to Ministry: Strengthening Urban Congregations in African American Communities, ed. Ronald Peters and Marsha Snulligan Haney, University Press of America, 2006.
“Christian Ethics, Responsibility, and Love” in Agora 17, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 9-11.
“Passionate Living” in The Passion of the Lord: African American Reflections, ed. James A. Noel and Matthew V. Johnson, Fortress, 2005.
“Conjuring Resistance and Liberation in the Academy,” Journal of the Society for Pastoral Theology 14, no. 2, (Fall 2004): 23-30.
“Eleanor Holmes Norton” in African American Lives, ed. Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford, 2004.
“Marian Wright Edelman” in African American Lives, ed. Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford, 2004.
“Harriet Tubman” in African American Lives, ed. Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford, 2004.
“Health Care and the Moral Imagination: Considering the Kind of Society We Want to Be” in New Conversations: Medical Technology and Christian Decision-Making, Special Edition, ed. Ronald Cole-Turner (Fall 2002): 67-72.
“From Civil Rights to Civic Participation: Black Religion, Movement Vitalities, and Public Life” in the Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center XXVIII, nos. 1 and 2 (Fall 2000/Spring 2001): 39-77.
“Feminist Ethics” in Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 2, ed. Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milic Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, Lukas Vischer, Eerdmans-Brill, 2000, 149-151.
“Religion and Public Life: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as a Metaphor for What Love Requires” in Quarterly Review 20, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 125-139.
“Religious Responsibility and Community Service: The Activism of Victoria Way DeLee” in Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives, ed. Nancy Auer Falk and Rita M. Gross, Wadsworth, 4th edition, 2000.
“Mancherlei Schriftgebrauch in der Womanistischen Theologie: Eine Ubersicht der Bibelinterpretationen von Vier Schwarzen Frauen,” [“Some Uses of Scripture in Womanist Theology: An Overview of Biblical Interpretation by Four Black Women”] Transparent: Zeitschrift fur die Kritische Masse in der Rheinischen Kirche 12, no. 53 (March 1999): 16/1-16/12.
“Inverting the Pyramid: Responding to Problems of Violence, Racism, and Xenophobia in the Lives of Women,” The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 26, no. 1 (Fall 1998): 118-139.
“Womanist Work and Public Policy: An Exploration of the Meaning of Black Women’s Interaction with Political Institutions,” in Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transformation, ed. Emilie Townes, Orbis, 1997.
“A Womanist Model of Responsibility: The Moral Agency of Victoria Way DeLee,” in Living Responsibly in Community, ed. Fred Glennon, Gary Hauk, and Darryl Trimiew, University Press of America, 1997.
“Reflections on Discussions of Difference in Contemporary Public Debate,” Journal of Intergroup Relations 26, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 16-21.
“Grace” in the Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, ed. Letty Russell and Shannon Clarkson, Westminster John Knox, 1996.