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Apr 1, 2021 · “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” is getting rave reviews and I can’t wait to dig in.
Mar 22, 2024 · The conversation quickly burst out of the bounds of the church’s comments section and into a flurry of text messages among L.D.S. women, who shared accounts of feeling marginalized and...
4 days ago · In a First Among Christians, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women. At Grace Church in Waco, Texas, the Generation Z gender divide can be seen in the pews. It has the potential to reshape ...
- Kimm D. Lett: Were people in the South, particularly churchgoers, receptive to The Secret Lives of Church Ladies? Deesha Philyaw: The only people I’ve heard from were supportive of the book.
- KDL: Were the stories and characters in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies based on anyone’s life? DP: I certainly didn’t take any one person’s story and dress it up in fiction, because that would not have been fair.
- KDL: Let’s talk about growing up in the South and the stories’ relationships to the South. First, when exactly did you leave? DP: I left the South in 1989, when I went to college.
- KDL: And what inspired the young Black girl character in the story “Peach Cobbler”? DP: There was a prompt and a call for submissions about food. There is also this activity I do in workshops called “Fabulous First Lines.”
Sep 19, 2024 · The latest installment of the series focuses on women in Albany, New York, leading a grassroots rebel movement in support of women clergy. Around 52 million Americans identify as Catholic ...
Sep 29, 2022 · This month marked the two-year anniversary of the publication of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, author Deesha Philyaw’s groundbreaking and award-winning debut short story collection that examines the inner lives of Black women as they navigate relationships, sex, and the church.
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is a debut short story collection by Deesha Philyaw. The book consists of nine stories about Black women, church, and sexuality and was released on September 1, 2020 by West Virginia University Press.
