Page Turners Book Discussion for

September 23, 2024   
12:00 p.m.  •  Library

In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit by Yolanda Peirce

Page Turners will meet on Monday, September 23rd at noon in the church library. The book for discussion is In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit by Yolanda Pierce. "In a world eager to promote the newest wunderkind, grandmother theology carries us two or more generations back: to the kitchens, hair salons, gardens, and church basements of older Black women who are often invisible in theological discourse but without whom the American Christian church would cease to exist. The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival. In a world hostile to Black women's bodies and spirits, they had to be. Born on a former cotton plantation and having fled the terrors of the South, Pierce's grandmother raised her in the faith inherited from those who were enslaved.”