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“Christianity is not just reconciliation to God but reconciliation with people. You start out at the personal level and you see people as people. We also address systemic injustice, looking for ways to help either advocate for people who don’t have a voice or help make the playing ground a little more equal.”

In a couple of other studies, Black women reported more distinct leadership values—suggesting that Black women leaders tend to embody emotional intelligence, championing staff, authenticity, and resilience more than their counterparts in other groups.

Womanists and feminists focus on the life of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels which inspires discipleship and encourages people to resist evil as Jesus did. Atonement theories, which image God as a Patriarch and Jesus as a passive surrogate, do not empower the oppressed to resist oppression but rather encourage

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the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that