Love, Auntie: Parables and Prayers for Sacred Belonging
Shantell Hinton Hill, "Love, Auntie: Parables and Prayers for Sacred Belonging"
English | ISBN: 1513814559 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1417 KB
English | ISBN: 1513814559 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1417 KB
Embrace a faith that makes room for all of us.
Where can we go when the world refuses to see us in our fullness? When culture reduces us to categories and stereotypes and even our churches make us feel like we don’t fit in? If we’re blessed to have an Auntie—someone who, like Jesus, welcomes us wholly and calls us beloved—then we have glimpsed the liberation and divine affirmation of sacred belonging.
Time and again, Aunties have offered a model for undoing, becoming, and embracing our identities and deepest beliefs. Auntie culture, particularly in Black spaces, is immediately recognizable as an embodied experience where nieces, nephews, and “niblings” feel safe, heard, and seen. Whether we are biological or simply beloved kin, Aunties welcome us in.
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