Decolonizing the Church and Centering the African-American Experience with Chasity Jones Selenga

Chasity is a new mom with a beautiful baby girl named Lola and is in the Master of Divinity program at Boston University School of Theology. She identifies as a Womanist theologian, a decolonizer, and a liberationist. Originally from Louisiana with a Baptist and missionary background, she is now centrally devoted to Black women’s health and healing. She became a Krista Colleague while a Community Organizer at Faith Action Network in Seattle and Global Ministries in the United Methodist Church. She has recently launched Fourth Wave Revolution to walk with churches, school and medical institutions in the process of decolonization.For the last five years, she has engaged with sermons, adult Sunday schools, workshops, individual and collective consulting, yoga and mindfulness, support groups, and more. She’s also very interested in understanding how traditional African-oriented practices in spirituality are shunned often within the black church community.To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].