Advent, American Holidays, Becoming Like Christ, Economic Equality & WOC, Equality, Ethnic Equality, Ethnic Reconciliation, God, Women & Covenant, Intersectional Theology, Justice for People of Color, Kingdom Living, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, Missions & Racial Equality, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Christmas, People of Color & Missions, Race & Equity in America, Racial & Gender Mutuality, Security & Gender Equality, The Holy Spirit & Equality, Voices of Our Children, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color & Missions, Women of Color in Advent, Youth of Color

Advent Is About How We Treat The Poor Among Us, Because… Yeshua Was Poor

Wherever injustice thrives, there also will poverty. Because injustices pervade our world, the poor live among us all year long and not just at Christmas.

Church & Gender Inequality, Equal In Sexuality, Equality, Faith, Sexual Orientation & Equality, Gender Equality for Women of Color, God, Women & Covenant, Human Sexuality, Intersectional Theology, Jesus & Feminism, Jesus, Sexual Orientation & Equality, Kingdom Living, Marriage, Divorce & Equality, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, Mutuality in Parenting, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Christmas, Rev. Tega Swann, Sex & Gender Equality, Stereotyping & Women of Color, The Gospel and Equality, The Holy Spirit & Equality, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color in Advent

If Yeshua’s Mother Was Not a Virgin, Would You Still Believe He Is God?: The Implications of Women’s Sexuality for the Christian Religion.

What does it matter to Yeshua's claims to divinity that his mother was a pregnant virgin? What would it have mattered if he'd been birthed by a non-virgin woman? Would his divinity have been questioned, rejected or mattered less? If yes, then we are looking at a situation where salvation of humanity depends on women's sexuality.

Church & Gender Inequality, Clergy Women of Color, Colorism, Cultural Appropriation, Economic Equality & WOC, Equality, Faith, Sexual Orientation & Equality, Feminine Imagery & Language for God, Gender Equality for Women of Color, God, Women & Covenant, Human Sexuality, Indigenous People, Intersectional Theology, Justice for People of Color, Kingdom Living, Language & Equality, LGBTQ+ Theology, LGBTQIA+, Love & Respect, Marriage, Divorce & Equality, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, Missions & Racial Equality, Mutuality Sunday, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Missions, Poetry, PTSD & Women of Color, PTSD for Women of Color, Queer Theology, Race & Equity in America, Racial & Gender Mutuality, Rev. Tega Swann, Security & Gender Equality, Sex & Gender Equality, Stereotyping & Women of Color, The Gospel and Equality, The Holy Spirit & Equality, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color & Missions, Women of Color Leadership, Women's Health & Equality, Youth of Color

Truth Doesn’t Always Win (A Poem)

Where truth is told, oppression begins to cease.

Academia & Racial Justice, Advent, American Holidays, Becoming Like Christ, Church & Gender Inequality, Equality, God, Women & Covenant, Kingdom Living, Missions & Racial Equality, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Christmas, People of Color & Missions, Race & Equity in America, Racial & Gender Mutuality, Rev. April Emick Fiet, Security & Gender Equality, Seminaries & Justice, Stereotyping & Women of Color, The Holy Spirit & Equality, Women of Color Leadership

Advent Post: God In The Changing Heart

"The most difficult part of making changes in our lives is that our communities do not always change with us. Our friends do not always change with us. Our family members do not always change with us." -Rev. April Emick Fiet

Advent, Becoming Like Christ, Mutuality Sunday, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Christmas, Rev. Tega Swann

Introduction to Advent 2022 Series

Change is constant and important for the person who professes faith in Christ, for such a one must contend with and surrender their previous allegiance to many patterns and systems in/of the world (1 John 2:15-17). Especially patterns and systems which do not align with the Christ message of love of neighbor. -Oghene'tega Swann

Abusive Churches & Gender Inequality, Black Women & The Image of God, CBE-Nigeria Chapter, Church & Gender Inequality, Clergy Women of Color, Feminine Imagery & Language for God, Gender Equality for Women of Color, Gender, Racial Equality & Parenting, God, Women & Covenant, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, P/WOC & Parenting, The Gospel and Equality, The Holy Spirit & Equality, VOCCU, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color & Missions, Women of Color Leadership

To All The Mothers In Israel!

"When women open their voices to cry out in labor that new, liberated life be allowed to come forth from places of oppression, women are engaging in motherhood." -Rev. Oghene'tega Swann

Church & Gender Inequality, Elizabeth Quashie, Ethnic Reconciliation, Gender Equality for Women of Color, God, Women & Covenant, Missions & Racial Equality, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Missions, Stereotyping & Women of Color, The Gospel and Equality, The Holy Spirit & Equality, Women of Color & Missions, Women of Color Leadership, Women's Conferences & Equality

The Women-of-Color-led Resistance Of “Women’s Conferences”

"...the question of what it really means and how much it truly matters for the woman behind the facade to live free, redeemed, and empowered in her calling within and outside the Church." -Elizabeth Quashie 

Academia & Gender Equality, Church & Gender Inequality, Ethnic Equality, Ethnic Reconciliation, Eve in Redemption's Story, Feminine Imagery & Language for God, Gender Equality for Women of Color, God, Women & Covenant, Jesus & Feminism, Kingdom Living, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Christmas, The Holy Spirit & Equality, VOCCU, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color in Advent

When Mary Led…

"...a new kind of woman is found in Mary and in her connection to and with Jesus:.."

Academia & Gender Equality, Church & Gender Inequality, Ethnic Reconciliation, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, Men of Color Voices, New Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Christmas, The Holy Spirit & Equality, VOCCU, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color in Advent

Out of Egypt…

"People of color groups are widely featured in biblical history and not always as enemies of God's purposes or the Gospel story, but rather, they were often instruments for effecting the redemption story."