"Amid ever-morphing racism in the African American experience, along with Black women's own just struggles against primordial, cross-cultural, religiously sanctioned sexism and historically brutal misogynoir, how can Black women remain spiritually and psychologically grounded as well as emotionally poised in the unending fight for equity? Through what means do we shore ourselves up against not only the ruinous havoc of clinical depression but also its stigmatizing implications? What redemptive possibilities lie within existing concepts and frameworks of care? What needs to be revisited or redeployed as instruments of true and lasting healing? Drawing from the deep well of womanist biblical scholarship, ethical reflection, and theological wisdom, womanist pastoral theologian Rochelle Johnson provides "a pastoral way forward" for all healers and people of goodwill to join Black women in reinvigorating their emotional health, human agency, and divine purpose, i.e., securing the blessings of survival, liberation, and creative self-expression for an entire community perennially at risk.".