In a new book, womanist theologian Lyvonne Briggs counsels women to “unlearn” the shame the church has historically attached to their physical selves and “feel full, whole, at ease and at home in their bodies.”
Stories this photo appears in:
A Black preacher, ‘no longer at war with her body,’ on connecting flesh with the divine
Lyvonne Briggs describes herself as “a Black woman spiritual leader who is no longer at war with her body.” Her mission, in her new book, “Sensual Faith,” is to help other women stop being at war with their bodies too.
