Our Focus
Waking Up to Oneness
Narrative Roadblocks to Oneness
Narrative roadblocks are deeply ingrained stories that hinder our progress towards gender equality and unity in Black church spaces. While some of these narratives are imposed by broader societal norms, others are perpetuated within our own faith communities. Eveolution seeks to identify and trouble these barriers to create a more just ekklesia.
Narrative of Blame
Narrative of Silence
Narrative of Divine Order
Narrative of Temptation
Be a Part of Eve-olution
Share Your Story
We want to hear from you. Your experiences in our Black church spaces are unique, powerful, and deserve to be heard. Your confidential insights will directly inform how we, as a community, address the challenges we face and build on our strengths. Your story is an essential part of our collective journey.
Participation in this study is completely voluntary and involves the completion of:
- Pre-interview questionnaire
- 60 -90 minute interview via Zoom
- Two optional Counterspaces (focus-group/strategy) sessions will provide an opportunity for follow-up discussions and group collaboration.
There is also the possibility for follow-up contact to provide clarification and to ensure the accuracy of the data. All interviews will be recorded with the consent of participants. Any participant, who wishes not to be recorded may decline.
(Re)membering the Eve-olutionaries who Came Before Us
The path we walk today was paved by courageous Black women who dared to challenge the status quo in both church and society. These 19th-century Eve-olutionaries - teachers, abolitionists, and preachers - refused to be silenced, carving out spaces for women's voices in a world that sought to exclude them. We do not fight for mere parity, but to inspire governance before the Fall.
“During the last two decades of the nineteenth century black Baptist women increasingly challenged such examples of gender inequality. Working within the orthodoxy of the church, they turned to the Bible to argue for their rights - thus holding men accountable to the same text that authenticated their arguments for racial equality.”
Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamRighteous Discontent : The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920