A Loving Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Healing Black Life

"When one journeys to Ghana, one is confronted with the origins of the European-driven slave industry, symbolized by the dungeons of Elmina and Cape Coast.... Each time I have made the pilgrimage to these dungeons ... what came to me as tears ran down my face was the realization that this is probably where the difficulties in our collective relational history between African American women and men began. What stands between us? Lee Butler sends out a clarion call for us to come home. He sees our African understandings of God and humanity as foundational to our fully embracing who we are as an African (American) people ? as the whole people of God."? The Rev. Dr. Marsha Foster Boyd, President of Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit, MichiganRead less