P. Kimberleigh Jordan

We Have Plenty

Theology

“Professor of Formation, Leadership, and Culture, and director, Center for the Church and the Black Experience, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary We Have Plenty should be read by all. It is particularly attuned to ongoing Black longing for abundant living that resides in practices of Black faith—from some community’s attraction to empty prosperity preaching to other Black faith community’s commitment to sharing and caring as hallmarks of religious practice. Importantly, this book was birthed from the womb of first-generation womanist theology, which was both an academic project and a movement of Black women scholars who gathered at tables of abundance—abundant hospitality and belonging among each other, abundant experience of loving God and Black people, abundant concern for the godly and daily survival of Black women. It is a gift to the reader that the teaching and inspiration of Delores Williams rings clearly throughout this text. This book is Lorena M. Parrish’s twenty-first century encounter and expansion of first-generation womanist thought. In offering models of resistance and transcendence centered in Black Christian women’s experience, We Have Plenty points toward models that can sustain us in continuously treacherous times for Black lives.”