This ministry is revolutionary.
Beyond the Wall is not a leadership program. It is not professional development. It is not a branding opportunity. It is a “for such a time as this” movement that is rooted in the unapologetic spirit of our foremothers who organized, preached, taught, healed, and mobilized Black communities when no permission was given and no protection was promised.
Standing in the lineage of 19th- and 20th-century Black women’s movements, our faith, resistance, and communal survival remained cohesive.
We are unafraid. We are impassioned. We are ancestrally accountable
What this cohort is
A cohort for Black women and girls who:
- Know that the Spirit is not polite
- Understand that faith can be both holy and disruptive
- Refuse to shrink their voice for institutional comfort
- Carry ancestral memory in their bodies
- Are prepared to tell the truth, even when it costs
If you are looking for:
- Safe theology
- Respectability politics
- Institutional approval
- A quiet calling
This is probably not for you.
If you desire to mobilize Black women and girls to:
- Preach and teach beyond imposed limits
- Engage scripture with reverence and a hermeneutic of suspicion
- Reclaim rural Black wisdom as theological authority
- Build intergenerational continuity between elders and daughters
- Speak with the authority of survival, memory, and Spirit
- Understand that the wall was never the end of the story.
This formation is for you!
Cohort is formed of 4-5 women and girls per cohort including two intergenerational seats reserved for high school seniors or college-aged women
Ordination is not required. Call, courage, and commitment are.
We take seriously the spiritual, intellectual, and communal survival and wholeness of Black women and girls. This work is sacred, serious, and alive.
A NOTE OF DISCERNMENT
Beyond the Wall is not a casual commitment.
This cohort requires courage, honesty, and spiritual maturity.
Applicants should come prepared to be challenged, stretched, and changed.
Participation is by discernment, not entitlement.
• Womanist theology as grounding, not garnish
• Black women’s lived experience as sacred text and radical subjectivity
• Scripture engaged with reverence and a hermeneutic of suspicion
• Rural wisdom as theological authority
• Intergenerational formation between elders and daughters