Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation, (Hardcover)

”Truth's Table” is a collaboration, Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson and Michelle Higgins each write essays on key topics facing, especially but not limited to, black women in the United States. I was invited by the publisher to review this book and I was honoured to read it. I anticipated gaining wisdom into the lives of women's shoes I can never walk in as a white woman, I knew it would be insightful. I didn't realise how much I would relate to, how seen I would feel in it and how much I would be able to apply to my life. This book is brutal, gentle, opinionated, unifying depending on the topic, the writer and the reader's feelings on….its wonderfully diverse and entirely challenging! What it isn't is sugar-coating, shy or holding anything back. It's straight-talking approach is refreshing. Trauma is intrusive, obstructive, and all-consuming; depending on what kind of trauma you are dealing with, it can warp your view of God and the faith altogether. Trauma is so loud that it can impair our ability to discern truth from lies, which prevents us from disentangling white supremacy from the faith. I cannot stress this enough, because some people are decolonizing their faith to the point that they are decolonizing their way out of the faith. It is broken into three major parts: love; life; and liberation. Within each are four essays. Life covers Colorism, Protest, Discipleship and Forgiveness. Love talks about Singleness, Divorce, Marriage and the Church. Liberation speaks to Justice, Resisting, God's Kingdom and Dispora Dreams. Each of these is discussed using the authors” stories, their experiences as well as their knowledge and expertise as a theologian, educator and organiser. If you are looking for a captivating, mind-set shifting, relatable and challenging book, pick this one up! It's a five out of five on the enJOYment scale, and highly recommended!