The tithing debate is not new, and the answer to it is also not new. Long before Erykah Badu and Bishop Swan reached the comment section, Black women had already built non-extractive financial mutuality inside and alongside the church. Reweaving the tear means picking up the institutions the maroon left us and remembering how to use them.

I have been writing hard things this month. So today I want to do what Reweaving the Tear is for: tell you where the repair is already happening. Sacred Slam in Baltimore. Sunday Dinner in ten cities. The reweaver's hand never stops.

In a Twin Cities suburb, a man with an ICE badge holds a pulpit. Four Black women interrupted the service. Untangling the Knot is not the work of asking whether a single pastor is wrong. It is the work of asking what governance formation makes him possible.

A Chicago pastor was shot in the head with pepper balls by federal agents at an ICE facility. This week he stood before Congress and named what he saw: a force that "cannot coexist with the kingdom of God." Reading the vibration is the work of saying out loud what the spirit is already showing you.

On Good Friday 2026, seven Black women bishops in the United Methodist Church preached the Seven Last Words at a single service. The headlines called it historic. Mapping the tapestry says: trace the genealogy. The women have always been at the cross. What changed is who got the title.

Erykah Badu suggested there might be more Black millionaires if Black congregants stopped tithing. Bishop Talbert Swan answered with the math. Dr. Boyce Watkins answered with compounding. The tradition answered with the civil rights movement. Untangling the knot says: all three are right, and a knot is what happens when truths get pulled in opposite directions without ever being named.

Eight in ten Black church congregants are Black women. Fewer than one in ten Black church leadership positions are held by Black women. Mapping the tapestry begins by refusing to call that ratio a coincidence.

At an Easter lunch this month, a woman who calls herself a pastor compared a sitting president to Jesus Christ. The haint you feel watching the clip is the breach of a covenant. Reading the vibration is the practice of naming what your nervous system already knows.

On Ryan Coogler's Sinners and the governance problem the film names Mapping the Tapestry | April 2026 Mapping the Tapestry is where the work begins. Before we can read what is vibrating or name what the patterns mean, we have to see the web itself — the structure, the connections, the governance formations that organize Black sacred life. In this series, that means sitting with Ryan Coogler's Sinners and asking: what, exactly, has he mapped here? Let me tell you what Ryan Coo

On what the film's spatial architecture is actually arguing Mapping the Tapestry | April 2026 Mapping the Tapestry is where the work begins. Before we can read what is vibrating or name what the patterns mean, we have to see the web itself — the structure, the connections, the governance formations that organize Black sacred life. In this series, that means sitting with Ryan Coogler's Sinners and asking: what, exactly, has he mapped here? There is a geography to Sinners that

Reweaving the Tear is where the work turns toward what is possible. After mapping the web, reading its vibrations, and naming what the patterns mean for the whole structure, the question becomes: what does the web need to return to integrity? This is not the section about deconstruction. This is the section about what comes next. There is a piece I wrote that started as a blog post and became something else. I called it Whose Baby Iz Yew?: Getting My Holy Ghost Songs Back. It

Untangling the Knot is where the web’s structure gets named. After mapping where it is and reading what is vibrating in it, the work here is to ask what that vibration means — not just for the individual thread, but for the whole. Anancy doesn’t diagnose people. She diagnoses systems. Every few months, another one falls. Another pastor, another scandal. Another megachurch, another cover-up. Another survivor who spent years being told to be quiet, to forgive, to protect the mi

Mapping the Tapestry | April 2026 Last week, Glendon “Teddy” Campbell filed for divorce from Tina Campbell — gospel singer, half of Mary Mary, and for the better part of a decade, one of the Black Church's most visible testimonies about the miracle of marriage restoration. In 2013, Teddy had an affair with a woman who had been like a godmother to their children. Tina publicly forgave him. She made an album about it. She said: “I know God kept the three Hebrew boys from gettin

Mapping the Tapestry — Entry 01 | April 2026 Mapping the Tapestry is the archive in practice. Each entry begins with an unedited artifact — a paper, a note, a fragment — retrieved from the years before the methodology had its name. The Anancy Webwork trace that follows is not commentary on the artifact. It is the web reading itself: Aunt Nancy sitting at the center, feeling what the old thread was already carrying. The Artifact Methodological Analysis, WGS 490 — Women & Gende