Her 1999 book, Listening for God (Simon & Schuster), won the Religious. Renita featured along with such impressive figures as Adam Clayton Powell, Elijah Muhammad, Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, and Dr. Weems currently serves as Vice President of Academic Affairs at. From Princeton Seminary and her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College.įinally, check out the book Black Stars: African American Leaders, a collection of bibliographies of some of the most important Back Religious Leaders over the last 200 years and you will see Rev. Weems has taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Spelman College, and has served as Academic Dean at American Baptist College in Nashville, TN. from Princeton Seminary in 1989 and was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in Old Testament Studies. Her beautifully crafted and compelling words invite and strengthen audiences to explore their hopes and fears, call upon women to support and empower one another, and show them pathways to do so.īorn in Atlanta, Ga and ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev.

Listening for God: A Minister’s Journey Through Silence and Doubt (Simon & Schuster) won the Religious Communicators’ Council’s prestigious 1999 Wilbur Award for “excellence in communicating spiritual values to the secular media”. She is the author of several acclaimed books, among these, Just A Sister Away, I Asked for Intimacy, Showing Mary: How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, and the Blessings of God, and What Matters Most: Ten Passionate Lessons from the Song of Solomon. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. Weems was the first African American woman to give Yale University’s prestigious Beecher lectures (2008). Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt Weems, Renita J. Her esteemed and insightful publications, commentaries, and articles on modern faith, race and religion, womanism and social movements, make her a widely sought-after inspirational speaker and academic lecturer. Renita, as she is known at The Ray, is a distinguished biblical scholar, author, academic administrator, public intellectual, and ordained elder in the African American Episcopal Church (1984).

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