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.