important Black Religious Leaders over the last 200 hundred years, including such impressive figures as Adam Clayton Powell, Elijah Muhammad, Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Her 1999 book, Listening for God: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt (Simon & Schuster), won the Religious Communicators' Council's prestigious 1999 Wilbur Award for "excellence in communicating spiritual values to the secular media." She was the first African-American woman to deliver the Lyman Beecher Lecture at Yale University (2008). Publications Showing Mary : how women can share prayers, wisdom, and the blessings of God (1st trade ed.). West Bloomfield, Mich.: Walk Worthy Press. . OCLC 61722833. Just a sister away : understanding the timeless connection between women of today and women in the Bible (1st Warner Books ed.). New York: Warner Books. . OCLC 60596133. I asked for intimacy : stories of blessings, betrayals, and birthings. San Diego, Calif.: LuraMedia. . OCLC 28148479. Battered love : marriage, sex, and violence in the Hebrew prophets. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. . OCLC 33333933. (Co-authored with CeCe Winans) On a positive note : her joyous faith, her life in music, and her everyday blessings. Weems, Renita J., 1954-. New York: Pocket Books. . OCLC 45144960 "Song of Songs" in The new interpreter's Bible. Old Testament survey. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 2005. . OCLC 62330657. "Jeremiah" in Global Bible commentary. Patte, Daniel., Okure, Teresa. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 2004. . OCLC 55955180. What matters most : ten lessons in living passionately from the Song of Solomon. West Bloomfield, MI: Walk Worthy Press. . OCLC 53315250. Listening for God: A Minister's Journey through Silence and Doubt. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1999 OCLC 1020247830. References Living people African-American biblical scholars African-American theologians African-American Christians American women academics Female biblical scholars Feminist biblical scholars Old Testament scholars Womanist theologians 1954 births 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women