This book review is focusing on Candice Marie Benbow's Red Lip Theology. The Mom Bar has a quarterly highlight of BIPOC Christian women based authors to enhance the conversation and bring to the forefront the voices that are sometimes most marginalized in the Christian community. Candice is a theologian, feminist, an advocate for healing and wholeness and an educator. In her first book release she leaves no topic unturned exploring the intersection of faith, feminism, and spirituality. What other's may deem as controversial, Candice poignantly dissects issues within the black church, the resurgence and need for bodily autonomy for black women, and her own healing journey after losing her mother. The pages are filled with what most would assume controversy but i read authentic transparent accounts of God refining her, making her whole, her boldly receiving the process presented for her and having the real conversation with our creator that reveal His true character and ultimately highlighting that He made black women glorious and we ought to know it. All about knowing God. yourself Mothering her own wounds in this episode, Dae shares what resonates most with her in the necessity of being a healed and whole woman for yourself before anyone else. In this episode you can expect to hear:

• How Candice's personal journey inspires Dae to make my faith my own
• Theology — operationalize God’s love by exploring what faith and relationship is to you
• Exploring the intersection of black womanhood, southern theology, millennial women, and feminism — doing ministry a new way the inclusive way it’s revelatory
• The tears Dae cried being felt, seen, heard, and understood
• Positions so many questions about black religious practices and the automatic subscribing to ideas we never fully challenge ourselves
• Reinforces the idea that church is the body of Christ exploring where God shows up in and through you beyond Sunday service
• Is your faith manufactured by others and other traditions of your culture
• How God give's an opportunity to unlearn and learn for a better next time
• The parallels of Dae's higher academia experience and Candice's experience in Southern racism in academia
• The strong black woman misconception, carrying the burden of white guilt, and decentering whiteness in your relationship with God
• Living in the power of the truth that God made you black for a reason
• The elder mothers of church who judge and condemn us because someone did it to them - generational trauma in the church from other black women
• Acknowledging the fullness of God allows you to experience the fullness of who you are
• The myth and lie about sex shaming in church and soul ties

QTNA:

1. What does my relationship and belief in God reflect?
2. What parts of me have I not received as beautiful in Gods eyes?
3. What unlearning is still required about my journey?
4. How do I decentralized the power so I’m not carrying a burden of navigating life Spirtually?
5. Does the doctrine you believe and practice reflect the GOd you believe in
6. How can I navigate hurt and disappointment with God and not just quote scripture but actually believe and come to know that God understands even the hurt?

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