Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
6
Narrator
4
Release Date
January 2022
Duration
6 hours 47 minutes
Summary
A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and opening new levels of understanding and ideological transformation for non-Black women and allies

“Candice Marie Benbow is a once-in-a-generation theologian, the kind who, having ground dogma into dust with the fine point of a stiletto, leads us into the wide-open spaces of faith.”—Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage and co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection
 
Blurring the boundaries of righteous and irreverent, Red Lip Theology invites us to discover freedom in a progressive Christian faith that incorporates activism, feminism, and radical authenticity. Essayist and theologian Candice Marie Benbow’s essays explore universal themes like heartache, loss, forgiveness, and sexuality, and she unflinchingly empowers women who struggle with feeling loved and nurtured by church culture.
 
Benbow writes powerfully about experiences at the heart of her Black womanhood. In honoring her single mother’s love and triumphs—and mourning her unexpected passing—she finds herself forced to shed restrictions she’d been taught to place on her faith practice. And by embracing alternative spirituality and womanist theology, and confronting staid attitudes on body positivity and LGBTQ+ rights, Benbow challenges religious institutions, faith leaders, and communities to reimagine how faith can be a tool of liberation and transformation for women and girls.
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Anita S.

Thought provoking and thoughtful. An honesty from the heart that commands your full attention and consideration, and respect. This reader is grateful.

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Latoya L.

WINSTON-SALEM Stand Up!Chile....Candace you did the Damn thang. You made our hometown Winston-Salem, NC proud. The way you address Black single motherhood and our love for our mothers despite the downpour of struggles, hatred, and hypocrisy. How our mothers (at least my mother) is Our GOD in so many ways. How you highlighted how the Black church can be our saving grace and our downfall. I smile and had Deja Vu while reading this book/memoir. The plus was pointing out our toxic patriarchal society's and the way women, more specifically Black single women are revered and treated. You brought up one of my favorites, bell hooks and her plight in including Black women into the feminist fight. She is the reason Womanism (Feminism) exist and I live! Institutions, organizations and society as a whole continuously leaves us out until they need us to serve a purpose or to push a narrative. I love the way you eloquently described everything, even the painful things, to include your mothers procreation partner. Alike you, I share similar experiences and struggled with my religion based off what was taught and pushed. I learned that my God doesn't look the same as many perceive and I give myself grace to charter this world and it's mess. Thank you Candace a million times over. #Book14of2022 #Bookworm #Whatsnext ile....Candace you did the Damn thang. You made our hometown Winston-Salem, NC proud. The way you address Black single motherhood and our love for our mothers despite the downpour of struggles, hatred, and hypocrisy. How our mothers (at least my mother) is Our GOD in so many ways. How you highlighted how the Black church can be our saving grace and our downfall. I smile and had Deja Vu while reading this book/memoir. The plus was pointing out our toxic patriarchal society's and the way women, more specifically Black single women are revered and treated. You brought up one of my favorites, bell hooks and her plight in including Black women into the feminist fight. She is the reason Womanism (Feminism) exist and I live! Institutions, organizations and society as a whole continuously leaves us out until they need us to serve a purpose or to push a narrative. I love the way you eloquently described everything, even the painful things, to include your mothers procreation partner. Alike you, I share similar experiences and struggled with my religion based off what was taught and pushed. I learned that my God doesn't look the same as many perceive and I give myself grace to charter this world and it's mess. Thank you Candace a million times over. #Book14of2022 #Bookworm #Whatsnext

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Brittnbloom

Wonderful book. Benbow is an amazing writer and storyteller. I feel immense appreciation for this book because Benbow made me feel seen. I relate to so much of what she shared and will be reading the book over and over.

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