King's A Womanist Pastoral Theology of Black Girlhoodis an ode to Black girls and the richness of their everyday experiences. King calls scholars and researchers to rethink our approaches to the sacred lives of Black girls by deeply listening with them and trusting Black girls enough to guide our work and to teach us! This work will quickly become the definitive work on Black girlhood and womanist pastoral theology. I am grateful for all the ways that King stretches us in this book.

Almeda M. Wright, author of Teaching to Live and Associate Professor of Religious Education, Yale Divinity School

Have you ever wondered how we might truly care for Black girls in our schools, congregations, and families? If so, this book is for you. If not, it's time to start! In A Womanist Pastoral Theology of Black Girlhood, Kishundra D. King invites us into a sacred space of deep listening, where we attend to Black girls' joys, struggles, and resilient spirits with our whole embodied selves. King's honest and compassionate weaving of womanist wisdom, pastoral theology, and rich interview narratives disrupts the erasure of Black girlhood and lifts it up as a transformative force for justice and healing.

King offers us more than just a mirror; she gifts us a framework shaped by sacred stories and liberating love that opens pathways for thriving, healing, and communal flourishing. This love letter to Black girls reminds us through joy, laughter, dreams, pain, and survival that God moves mightily in the life of every Black girl.

Lakisha R. Lockhart, Union Presbyterian Seminary

A Womanist Pastoral Theology of Black Girlhood breaks new ground by requiring that readers slow down and take deep notice of what it takes to become a Black woman. It starts first with being a Black girl who dares to speak her own thoughts, follow her own questions, and name her own God. Her work is a cogent contribution to Womanist thought in particular, and the discourses within pastoral and practical theology in general. What King has done here is solid. She teaches us how to believe Black what Black girls know.

Stephanie M. Crumpton, Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Trauma Healing Initiative at McCormick Theological Seminary