A review by ono108
Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation by Ekemini Uwan, Michelle Higgins, Christina Edmondson

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!