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Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation by Michelle Higgins, Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson

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brandifox's review

4.0

These women are brilliant. The growth they prod toward is uncomfortable- if you are open to the good kind of discomfort make space to listen to them.

This book took me quite some time to read, and not just because I was in a reading slump. This is the kind of book that you need to read a chapter at a time and sit with it considering the implications the truth of the book has for your life. As a white woman reading this book, I found it best to follow my grandma's often-given advice to keep my ears open and my mouth shut. I am thankful for the time and thought that Edmondson, Higgins, and Uwan put into this book and that they shared their lives and their hearts within its pages. This book left me with a larger view of God and a better understanding of his people, and I think that's exactly what was intended. Read this book with an open mind when you really have the time to invest in it and digest it.

bookofcinz's review

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3.0

If you are Black Woman who grew up the church and you are still searching or healing in some day, I consider this a must read. This book is written by Black Women for Black Women and I think it is one of those books that you read slowly- leave, consider it's impact on you and what it is trying to teach you.

ono108's review

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5.0

Truth’s Table the book lives like the podcast. It is a conversation that you enter as a participant from the first few pages. Split into 3 sections on life, love, and liberation, with each author writing one chapter per section, each has their own distinct voice which I was able to feel the further I went into the book, and yet all 3 voices still coalesce into a conversation which is what makes this book so brilliant and intuitive. I found it hard to resist audibly agreeing or furiously scribbling into post its to affirm and further explore what I was reading. For me, it was as soul-affirming a read as it was many, many lessons (theologically, spiritually, sociologically, relationally, etc etc). I struggle to read really any Christian book but what made this one different was the relatability and authenticity. Real life, faith, and justice in practice all coexist here under a huge offering of vulnerability from each writer.

Crazy that I never knew of Truth’s Table the podcast before randomly finding this book in Barnes & Noble. I will count it as a blessing and am so thankful for the ways this book intellectually impacted my own faith, as well as my womanhood and Blackness (which one thing you will learn in this book is that they are not at all mutually exclusive). I will surely be a loyal podcast listener going forward!

allieasaurus's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

madi_stokes's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

madfrueh's review

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hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

shannanh's review

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5.0

I have never heard of these ladies until now, and Now I have a new podcast to listen too. This book is so needed for those of us who are over religion as we know it and grew up on. Especially with all of the racial issues that have been coming more to the surface after the last couple of years. These three ladies give such a great advice and is written for black women in any stage in their life, from singleness, to being married, dealing with racisism and divorce and many other situations. This is an amazing, on time and much needed resource.

I received a copy of the book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving an honest review of my own thoughts and opinions.