{"id":2570,"date":"2018-05-31T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:54:14","slug":"race-gender-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/race-gender-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark and Lovely: Is God In It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early May 2018, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary hosted Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes who spoke on \u201cRace, Gender and <\/em>Imago Dei.\u201d\u00a0Following the event, the Rev.\u00a0 <\/strong>Oghene\u2019tega Swann, a Doctor of Ministry Urban Change focus student at Pittsburgh Seminary, shared her reflection. The following post has been edited for length;\u00a0the original blog “Dark\u00a0and Lovely: Is God In It? A Reflection on the 2018 Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Schaff Lectures on Race, Gender and the <\/em>Imago\u00a0Dei” can be accessed on the\u00a0CBE-Voices of Color Chapter<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary has been a theological haven since I first discovered it four years ago while searching for the \u2018right\u2019 place and focus for my Doctor of Ministry program. Something very warm stirred in me as I encountered their commitment to creating and holding dedicated space for social justice issues and their commitment to diversity and inclusion. I almost yelled \u201challelujah!\u201d when on my first day on campus, I ran into three people of color faculty members, who were not just men of color, but also women of color. A Black woman was head of the Metro-Urban Institute, a Black man was one of the Deans, two Black men headed two departments, a Black woman (ooh, I was so excited to sit it on her class \u2013 c\u2019mon now!) and an Asian man were theology and church history professors respectively\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Long before my program would start, I\u2019d sign up for credit course work in Environmental Justice and sit on a Black Women in Theology class. I would attend these classes that were like water in a thirsty land, and leave in an all time high as professors, White and Black, demonstrated their awareness and commitment to social justice issues as<\/em> a Christian issue!<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019d finally found a place that reconciled my faith with my commitment to social justice issues. I was home!<\/p>\n

It was as though, like a good lover, the seminary wanted to keep the fires of our love burning hot by not slacking on that which I fell in love with. The seminary successfully ensconced its place in my heart with several periodic seminars every year, dedicated to social justice issues of gender and racial equality and which were often led by people of color. People who were concerned (and there are a lot) came from all over Pittsburgh and beyond for these events. I remember attending my first social justice event. I had just started reading the most fascinating and theologically sound book on racial equality and the Imago Dei<\/em> by Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race<\/em>,<\/a> when I found out he would be the guest speaker at one of these seminars\/conferences. It was on! Come hail or high water, I would be there and I was!<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary has done a marvelous job of demonstrating what matters to God\u2019s heart to its surrounding community, as it has faithfully served as the center for healing and reconciliation by providing resources and space for learning about and becoming equipped to tackle social justice issues for the entire community. These programs, which are open to the public, draw a wide audience from all spheres of life–secular and religious–and unites them in one purpose: to learn<\/em> to love and practice justice<\/em> and show mercy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Race, Gender and Imago Dei<\/em><\/h2>\n

This year\u2019s Schaff Lectures<\/a> was no different. People came from far and wide to hear\u00a0Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes<\/a> speak on \u201cRace, Gender and Imago Dei<\/em>.\u201d This was a must-attend for me, as I\u2019d been enthralled since day\u00a0one of reading Dr. Walker-Barnes\u2019 book Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength<\/em><\/a> about five years ago.<\/p>\n

The first day at PTS, Dr. Walker-Barnes spoke about\u00a0\u201cUntil All of Us Are Free: How Racial Reconciliation Fails Black Women\u201d and \u201cTell the Storm I\u2019m New: What Real Reconciliation Looks Like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using Alice Walker\u2019s\u00a0The Color Purple<\/em><\/a> as the lens through which she wanted the audience to envision the struggle of Black women, Dr. Walker-Barnes helped us identify how talks of racial reconciliation still leaves out justice for Black women. In a message that I have paraphrased, she showed us how in a world that treasures male and \u00a0White skin, Black women still can\u2019t win. She went on to delineate how what we typically wrap up as reconciliation talks really further marginalizes Black women. And the crowning point of her message (for me): was the message that a Black woman\u2019s equality comes from her own wrestling and confronting the injustices she experiences; her equality is not something that\u2019s handed to her<\/em> from the outside, rather it\u2019s something she takes on her own. She realizes she is inherently worthy and she claims her space and place in society \u2013 on her own terms.<\/em><\/strong> Too often, the costly Band-aid approach to racial reconciliation eliminates Black women\u2019s space and place because it does not allow the Black woman to present her self-realized self to the world. Instead, it\u2019s the world still trying to define her place for her<\/em>. Finally, she let us know that reconciliation is a journey. It\u2019s not something you accomplish just by sitting at the table. Dominant people groups have to take ownership for how their privilege comes at great cost to others. Just like Celie in\u00a0The Color Purple<\/em>, marginalized people groups and women of color have to be allowed to work through\u00a0(not rushed) the effects of misogyny from all men<\/em> and White<\/em> women<\/em> and after all this, the world needs to be ready to take women of color on her own terms!<\/p>\n

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Truth-telling<\/h2>\n

These lectures were attended by Caucasian men and women, as well as men and women of color. Hard questions were asked by all, and even harder answers were given, but there was a true spirit of humility, repentance, and a willingness to hear and affirm the message. White and Black men genuinely wanted to know how they could do better. In addition to recommending educational material, Dr. Chanequa told them, \u201cStop demanding our silence and stand beside us in our demand for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The morning before Dr. Walker-Barnes ended the Schaff Lectures, the Seminary put together a special breakfast just for Dr. Walker-Barnes and the women in ministry in the area. It was an amazing time of healing, sharing, learning, and encouraging one another facilitated by Dr. Walker-Barnes. But, nothing could have prepared me for Dr. Walker-Barnes\u2019 closing words at the Schaff Lectures.<\/p>\n

The Lectures ended with her sermon in chapel\u00a0\u201cWhen Their Sin Makes Us Hate Our Skin.\u201d The texts were excerpts of the Shunamite\u2019s soliloquoy from Song of Solomon 1:5-6<\/p>\n

Dark am I, yet lovely,
\ndaughters of Jerusalem,
\ndark like the tents of Kedar,
\nlike the tent curtains of Solomon.
\nDo not stare at me because I am dark,
\nbecause I am darkened by the sun.
\nMy mother\u2019s sons were angry with me
\nand made me take care of the vineyards;
\nmy own vineyard I had to neglect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reiterating the age-old struggle of the theologians and the church to identify the place of Songs of Solomon in theology, yet used these two verses to show how society continues to shame women of color, particularly Black women. She showed how society still only affirms women of color the closer they approximate White beauty standards, but how the Shunamite\u2019s affirmation of her dark skin, was in itself an act of resistance: \u201cDark am I,\u2026lovely.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I leave out the word in between \u201cI\u201d and \u201clovely\u201d because of the focus Dr. Walker-Barnes drew to it. For example, the fact that many translations qualify the Shunamite\u2019s loveliness as despite<\/em> her \u2018blackness,\u2019 thereby, furthering the notion that Black is not an acceptable beauty standard. Yet, she says, that the Shunamite\u2019s speech and affirmation of her dark skin, was her pi\u00e9ce de resistance<\/em>: Dark am I and<\/em><\/strong> lovely.<\/p>\n

Dr. Walker-Barnes treatise of the Shunamite\u2019s standing up for herself and asserting her worthiness (before men of her own heritage and men and women of lighter-skinned heritage) as one equally created in God\u2019s image, summarized and affirmed the growing movement of women of color to stand up for themselves and affirm their worthiness just as they are: dark skin, kinky hair, thick lips, etc. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Shunamite woman stands in the canon and reminds us of both the age-old struggle to suppress Black women and other women of color and the righteous resistance such women must put forth: dark am I, and lovely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our blackness is not an apology. It is a declaration that we are made in God\u2019s image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps, with Dr. Walker-Barnes\u2019 treatise, Bible scholars and theologians may have found the purpose of Song of Solomon after all. The declaration of the Imago Dei<\/em> in the bodies of Black women. Thus, she concluded: Maybe God is in it (the Song of Solomon, as well as the bodies of Black women) after all. I agree.<\/p>\n

I will always be grateful to Pittsburgh Theological Seminary for using its resources to amplify the voices of the marginalized, as I cannot recount the countless times this seminary has pulled together the secular and religious community to hear \u2018hard truths.\u2019 No flinching, tell it as it is, \u00a0and then let\u2019s find a way forward truth. Through this service, PTS maintains a prophetic presence and witness in the city of Pittsburgh, as it has become a place that affirms and confronts the brokenness in our humanity and communities, and then models the posture of humility and repentance for the community. I love Pittsburgh Theological Seminary! Did I already say that??? Oh, well!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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