Between Love and Understanding

Powerful Questions and the Liberating Word Invite Us Into the Mystery of Faith

“A question can be both powerful and dreadful,” writes Pamela R. Lightsey in her book Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology. She tells of her experience being silenced by her pastor as a young woman, because she asked too many questions. And she notes that a career of asking questions helped to form her as an activist and a theologian.

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