Forefront Conversations with Char Adams

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"Make no mistake about it: evangelicalism is white supremacy disguised as religion." That quote comes from Renita J. Weems, just one of the three Black women biblical scholars whose work Char Adams digs into for her thesis, "If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas." These three women are disparate but prominent Womanist voices whose work analyzing and interpreting the Bible have informed the experience of Black women in history with a specific eye on the writing and canonization of books in the Bible have perpetuated white supremacy, misogyny, and trans and homophobia. This interview demands that we confront how there were very harmful and demeaning factors that led to the Bible's creation, but also offers hope for how decolonizing the allegedly infallible text can open us up to the truly revolutionary example of Christ on the road to embracing and elevating Black women. ABOUT CHAR Char Adams is a journalist currently living in Texas working for NBCBLK. The thesis was written as part of her Master's Degree for The Graduate Center of CUNY and can be read in full at the following link: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3726/ More of her work for NBCBLK can be found here: https://linktr.ee/CharAdams

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