First, I unapologetically interact with the Black Lives Matter movement as a way to synthesize reading of the biblical text with women and men who suffer consistently from police violence in the United States.2 Second, I bring my own embodied identity as a Womanist scholar who teaches and preaches the gospel message of Jesus as the Christ while recognizing that sometimes the God-breathed authority of Scripture gets lost within the confines of White supremacist authoritarianism.
