Nicola Slee

A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking

Arts & Literature

“Terse, teasing, quixotic, discomfiting, needling away at mind and imagination, Cynthia Kittredge's poems mirror the qualities of Mark's Gospel. Reading them singly, or as a whole sequence, invites the reader into disconcerting perplexity and opaqueness, yet offers the prospect of cleansed seeing, surprising angles of vision, renewed and more risky faith.”

Overcoming Self-Negation

Theology

“Thoughtful and scholarly, Turner’s passion for his native country and church is refracted through multi-layered analysis and tested by original ethnographic research. He challenges the ideology of self-negation which pervades the consciousness of the enslaved and is perpetuated by the church’s rejection of indigenous culture. He advocates a hermeneutic of embrace which can bring healing and empowerment to those caught in the unresolved tension between the culture and the church they love. Practical, contextual, postcolonial, Black, and womanist theologians, scholars, and practitioners, as well as those engaging in ethnographic research, have much to learn from this wise, rich, and creative work.”

Sex, Sin, and Our Selves

Theology

“Anna Fisk's 'theological bone collage' is a work of vivid and sensuous writerliness that is narratively rich and theologically adventurous. Weaving together fragments from feminist fiction and theology, she offers a close reading of the fiction of British feminists Sara Maitland and Michele Roberts in ways that open up core issues in contemporary feminist theology. Resisting systematization and idealized notions of purity or closure, Fisk explores honestly some key tensions in contemporary feminist theology around gender, sexuality, sin, and salvation.”