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This Christmas season gives us a wonderful opportunity to sing carols for racial and gender justice. Our music can contribute to racial equality as well as gender equality. Worship language and symbolism all too often contribute to racism as well as sexism. In many hymns, prayers, scripture readings, and sermons, images of darkness carry negative […]
Imagine Christmas carols you love but with lyrics that include the Divine Feminine to celebrate the sacredness of all people and all creation! Imagine Christmas carols that sing of peace for all people and for the earth. This Christmas album, Sing of Peace, will bring inspiration, healing, and empowerment through new inclusive lyrics to familiar […]
Advent celebrates the coming of the Divine into the world. Christ-Sophia is a divine name and image, celebrating the sacred value of all people and all creation. Our world longs for the coming of Christ-Sophia, who embodies wisdom, justice, peace, equity, mutual relationship, liberation, grace, hope, and new life. O come, Christ-Sophia, full of grace […]
Many biblical females have been ignored, excluded, demeaned, misinterpreted, and defamed. In an effort to reclaim and revalue some of these women in Scripture, I have written songs in celebration of them. One of the features of Inclusive Songs for Resistance & Social Action is the inclusion of songs that honor biblical women, such as […]
It was a joy to co-lead with Rev. Andrea Clark Chambers an Equity for Women in the Church “Calling in the Key of She” workshop at Memphis Theological Seminary’s Scholars Week. Our workshop, “How to Be a More Inclusive Community,” addressed changing church and society from patriarchal to egalitarian so that the gifts of all […]