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The Genealogy at the Foot of the Cross: Seven Bishops and the Women Who Were Always Already There
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.
Indhira Udofia
May 73 min read
Who Built It, Who Runs It: On the Pew and the Pulpit
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.
Indhira Udofia
May 75 min read
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