Jeremiah was a fitting text for Natasha Sistrunk Robinson to read in 2020. Filled with cries against injustice, the prophetic book includes a section in which God tells Jeremiah to call the wailing women to wail until they are worn out from crying.
Robinson told CT that those verses struck her as especially timely.
“They’re wailing because the men have been taken out of the public square, and the children have been taken out of the streets,” she explained. “And ‘death has climbed in through our windows.’”
Death was climbing through the windows in 2020, both through COVID and through myriad injustices. Inspired by Jeremiah and other Old Testament writers, Robinson curated a collection of essays, prayers, poems, and liturgies written by Christian Women of Color.
“There’s a prophetic witness to hearing from people who have been through hard things and stayed,” said Robinson. “These women love God and love the church, despite itself.”
May we be women who do the same as we listen, learn, and lament.
