How Covid reshaped the Black church.
— who curated space on the audio platform Clubhouse, which took off during quarantine — are rethinking what God means to them and how to balance the beauty of Black church traditions with modern viewpoints of holiness l.
It also isn’t true for Danyelle Thomas, the pastor of the Unfit Christian digital space. Similar to Benbow, Thomas is currently dedicated to decolonizing Christianity. She grew up in the Black church and in 2016 launched her digital platform on Instagram. There she shares knowledge to her 22,000 followers about decolonization, touching on topics ranging from bible scriptures to analyzing misogyny to the ways sex and sexuality have been presented from pulpits.
“There’s a reason why African American religion is distinct from other ways of being religious,” said Dr. Monica Coleman a theologian and Christian minister, who is also an initiate in the Yoruba religion Ifa a West African spiritual system that requires a special initiation. “We’ve always had a different way of being Christian. Africans were practicing before they came to the U.S., There are traces of Islam and multiple traces of the traditional African religions.
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