In My Grandmother's House by Yolanda Pierce

The Embodied Faith resource is a great place to start.Why do you want to reach Black students? (if you can’t answer that question then you probably shouldn’t…)

If you’re not on InterVarsity staff then use the “Find a chapter” function at and search for your campus to find an InterVarsity staff who can get you in touch with regional BCM staff.Ģ.

Also, contact the BCM department and let us know that you’re intending to reach out to Black students.

If you’re on staff with InterVarsity and want to start BCM ministry then start by contacting your regional BCM coordinator (ask your supervisor if your region has a BCM coordinator and who that is).

It's time to get to know that God.As you consider getting started with Black Campus Ministry, consider these insights, recommendations, and advice from BCM senior leadership. The Divine has been showing up at the kitchen tables of Black women for a long time. The paperback features a new readers' guide, written by the author, that is useful for individual reflection and group discussion.Ī grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. Pierce tells stories that center the experiences of those living on the underside of history, teasing out the tensions of race, spirituality, trauma, freedom, resistance, and memory. Now in paperback, In My Grandmother's House follows Pierce as she reckons with that tradition, building an everyday womanist theology rooted in liberating scriptures, experiences in the Black church, and truths from Black women's lives. Born on a former cotton plantation and having fled the terrors of the South, Pierce's grandmother raised her in the faith inherited from those who were enslaved. In a world hostile to Black women's bodies and spirits, they had to be. The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival.

'In a world eager to promote the newest wunderkind, grandmother theology carries us two or more generations back: to the kitchens, hair salons, gardens, and church basements of older Black women who are often invisible in theological discourse but without whom the American Christian church would cease to exist.'

In My Grandmother's House by Yolanda Pierce