Books with author Diana L. Hayes

In this collection of essays, prayers, and meditations, Diana Hayes lays the foundation for womanist spirituality in the lived faith and struggles of African American women. This spirituality, as she observes, "flows from their lived encounters with God, nurtured and sustained with sweat, tears, and blood as they worked the fields, worked in the homes of white families, worked in factories and wherever else they could to support their families and build their communities.…It is a spirituality which arises from a deep and abiding faith in a God of love, a wonder-working God who walked and talked with them, giving them the strength to persevere."Beginning with the story of her own spiritual journey -- her upbringing in the AME Zion Church where she encountered "a God who loved me into life," her training as a lawyer, conversion to Catholicism, and determination to become a theologian --Hayes offers a moving, inspiring, and challenging window on the lived faith of African American women today.

Black women in America have carved out a distinctive and instructive faith stance that is influential well beyond the historic black church. Diana L. Hayes, a leading commentator and forger of womanist thought, especially in the black Catholic setting, here offers strong brew for what ails the church, the Christian tradition, and the world. Hayes specifically shows how womanist commitments in the Christian tradition provide a specific critical lens for seeing the strengths and weaknesses of a Christianity that has often flourished at the expense of or neglect of African Americans. As sometime strangers and sojourners in their own church, black women have a unique take on the church's stance on race, class, and gender issues. Yet their unquestioned devotion lends a hope and optimism often missing from critical thought and, as Hayes shows in this powerful volume, invites the church itself to a new conversion and role.

Dillon Dobbs was ten years and six months at the time if his Death Birth. He was the first genetically engineered boy created by the famous Dr. Sun Tun Luck under a shroud of secrecy in the subterranean complex. The Doctor knew Dillon was unlike the other Deadkins she had created but had no idea how different he really was!Dillon is unaware of his special gifts until his home and friends come under attack by an unknown force and his implanted, repressed memories are activated. His mission is gradually revealed as he and his classmates are pulled into a fantastic journey through Middle Earth then catapulted at the speed of thought to a realm in the Cosmos in search of answers.The world for Dillon and his group of laboratory orphans is a Pandora ’s Box of secrets. Dillon is thrust in the middle of the mystical chaos and is surprised to find that his destiny as a Universal Protector has been pre-determined.