"If preaching is to truly reach the hearts, minds and souls of African American women, preachers must employ an analysis of scripture that reconstructs the Word of God in ways that are liberating to women as well as men, and reflects the totality of the African American experience.” —From the Introduction

Author and pastor Elaine Flake crafts a womanist theology and praxis of preaching to the population most overlooked and overwhelmed in our pews: wounded women—women who are wounded by virtue of their gender and more particularly black women who are also wounded by virtue of their race.

Discover how to unfold in every sermon the good news that brings healing, instead of more hurt, to black women. Flake offers samples from her own ministry, sermons that explore the lives of misunderstood women from the Bible, including:

• The wives of Job and Lot
• The daughters of Zelophehad
• Hagar, the Egyptian
• Leah, the unloved
• The poor widow
• And the “woman with the issue of blood”