Renita Weems is a blogger for Beliefnet's Progressive Revival. She is a Bible scholar, minister, and author of Listening for God. Dr. Weems, formerly a member of the faculty of Vanderbilt Univeristy and Spelman College, has been celebrated by Ebony Magazine as one of America's top 15 preachers.

She is founder of Something Within, and author of several widely acclaimed books on women's spirituality and wholeness: Just A Sister Away (1987) and I Asked for Intimacy (1993), Showing Mary: How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, and the Blessings of God (2003), and, more recently, What Matters Most: Ten Passionate Lessons from the Song of Solomon (2004).She won the Religious Communicators' Council's prestigious 1999 Wilbur Award for excellence in communicating spiritual values to the secular media.


Blog Entries by Renita Weems

Dear Rick: A Lesson on Race

6 Comments | Posted January 18, 2009 | 11:26 AM (EST)


2008-07-28-bnet_logo_white.gifIt took several days for me to decide whether to post the email below. It arrived Sunday night in my mailbox. I read it and became immediately suspicious. "You kidding, right?" It's obvious that Warren hasn't read what I've...

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Rick Warren and the Power of Prayer

18 Comments | Posted December 20, 2008 | 10:17 PM (EST)


2008-07-28-bnet_logo_white.gifSure, Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren for the inaugural prayer proves nothing more probably than that Obama is a consummate politician. Obama will do what he has to do to win over voters. And he's probably figured out...

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"Them Blacks" - Fear-Mongering At Its Worst

1 Comments | Posted October 31, 2008 | 09:59 AM (EST)


2008-07-28-bnet_logo_white.gifRumors that black people are likely to riot after next week's election is the lowest form of fear-mongering yet by Obama's opponents. The sleaziest ones go so far as to say that regardless whether Obama wins or loses black...

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