Katie Geneva Cannon learned early: “If things are not written, they do not exist.”
She arrived at Union Theological Seminary caught between feminist theologians and Black male theologians. Neither had room for her.
She turned to Black women’s literature. Zora Neale Hurston. Enslaved women’s narratives. Her mother. Her grandmothers. The women at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Kannapolis.
She wrote it down.
1988: Black Womanist Ethics.
The field didn’t exist before her.
She taught for decades, trained a generation.
“Do the work your soul must have.”
Write it down.
Theme: “Solstice Wisdom”
Date Published: Friday, December 19, 2025