Carter Heyward is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States. In 1974, she was one of the Philadelphia Eleven, eleven women whose ordinations eventually paved the way for the recognition of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in 1976. Heyward is the author of some eleven books and has edited / contributed to a further three. Her most recent books are Tears of Christopena: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding and She Flies On: A White Christian Debutante Wakes Up. She lives the North Carolina mountains south of Asheville.

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I: In the Beginning

Chapter 1: Why This Book?

Chapter 2: What is White Christian Nationalism?

Part II: The Seven Deadly Sins

Chapter 3: Sin as Our Collective Problem

Chapter 4: The First Sin: The Lust for Omnipotence

Chapter 5: The Second Sin: Entitlement

Chapter 6: The Third Sin: White Supremacy

Chapter 7: The Fourth Sin: Misogyny

Chapter 8: The Fifth Sin: Capitalist Spirituality

Chapter 9: The Sixth Sin: Domination of the Earth and Its Creatures

Chapter 10: The Seventh Sin: Violence

Part III: A Call to Action

Chapter 11: Questions and Call

Chapter 12: The First Call: Into Sharing Power-With One Another

Chapter 13: The Second Call: Into Humility

Chapter 14: The Third Call: Into the Blackness of God

Chapter 15: The Fourth Call: Into Empowering Women, Celebrating Sexuality, and Affirming Gender Diversity

Chapter 16: The Fifth Call: Transforming Capitalism

Chapter 17: The Sixth Call: Belonging with Earth and Animals

Chapter 18: The Seventh Call: To Break the Spiral of Violence

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