which — even if you don’t like the result — does show a certain reverence for the material. But it seems like a bunch of people would rather see God depicted as Beavis than as a black woman.

The show was called “The Black Woman is God.” It was a moment and exhibition that was impossible to forget, not just because of the quality of the work on display, but also because the two ...

Based on the controversial, best-selling novel by William Paul Young, the film, like the book for the past decade, is coming under attack from certain quarters for portraying God as a black woman ...

In 2008, he told the New York Times he had to put the book down when he first read that God was a black woman. "I was so stunned by the presentation of Papa that I couldn't deal with it," said ...

Young about a father’s path to renewed faith and healing after his young daughter’s murder, the character of God – as depicted in the book – is portrayed as a matronly black woman.