Sisters With Power

by Aldred, Joe

• ISBN13: 9780826449856
• ISBN10: 0826449859
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Sisters with Power collects stories of struggles, challenges, blessings, and victories that have influenced and enriched women's lives. Women from different cultural and church backgrounds share their experiences, discussing the role and influence of women in the church. Contributors address issues ranging from women in leadership and Christian mothers to feminism and the perspectives of younger women.

Author Biography

Bishop Joe Aldred comes from a Black Pentecostal background and is the Director of the Centre for Black and White Christian Partnership, Birmingham

Table of Contents

Introduction	v
When being a woman is not enough	1	(9)
Yvette Hutchinson
Woman, single, Christian	10	(14)
Kate Coleman
Hermeneutical insubordination toppling worldly kingdoms	24	(12)
Mukti Barton
Deconstructing patriarchy	36	(14)
Dionne Lamont
A black woman and deacon: a womanist reflection on pastoral ministry	50	(15)
Lorraine Dixon
The professional woman	65	(10)
Angela Sarkis
Women leadership	75	(14)
Christine Russell Lumby
Cultural spiritual recovery: a black woman's experience in the Church	89	(15)
Janet Johnson
Being a minister's wife	104	(10)
Sandra Ackroyd
The Bible as a tool for growth for black women	114	(9)
Hyacinth Sweeney
A woman designed by God	123	(13)
Muriel Mohabir
A virtuous woman in the twenty-first century	136	(12)
Pauline Muir
The strong black woman	148	(13)
Andrea Encinas-Meade
Poetry	161
Nicola Tavares-Mott