Jacquelyn Grant

Grant was the recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ministry Award in 1986 and has been nominated as the Woman of the Year in Religion by the Iota Phi Lambda sorority. She has appeared in the Who's Who Among African Americans. Grant currently has a research project that examines African-American understanding of the divine through black theology and black art.

In 1981, she founded the Center for Black Women in Church and Society at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta in 1981, where she holds the title of Professor. She has been assistant minister at Flipper Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1980 to 1982, and later the Victory African Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta. She is now the Callaway Professor of Systematic Theology at the Interdenominational Theological Union in Atlanta. She is widowed to the pastor John Collier Jr. and now resides in Atlanta.

Grant is considered to be a Community Mother well known for her commitment to building stronger communities and churches. This is illustrated in Grant's founding of the Center for Black Women in Church and Society at the Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, GA) in 1981. Through her Black Women in Ministerial Leadership Program, Grant continues to serve as director and professor mentoring numerous black women. Through her wisdom, women of color are learning to harness their collective wisdom to build stronger families, communities, and churches that will influence future generations. Grant was featured as a contributor in the 1983 April issue of Ebony magazine to the article "School of Religion for Men Behind Bars" and to the article "Gifts of the Spirit" in the 1992 December issue.

There she created the thesis The development and limitations of feminist Christology : toward an engagement of white women's and black women's religious experiences under the tutelage of James H. Cone, who is known as the father of black theology. In 1977, Grant became involved with Harvard Divinity School's Women's Research Program and with her involvement, it led to the creation of the Women's Studies in Religion Program in which she remained for two years. Grant led efforts to join women in the fight for equality:

Jacquelyn Grant (born 1948) is an American theologian and Methodist minister who is one of the founding developers of womanist theology. Womanist theology addresses theology from the viewpoint of Black women, reflecting on both their perspectives and experience in regards to faith and moral standards. She is currently the Callaway Professor of Systematic Theology at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. Grant has written the book White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus (1989).

Grant was born December 19, 1948, in Georgetown, South Carolina. She always had an interest in religion, attending Catholic school at a young age, and graduating from the local Howard High School in 1966. A graduate of Bennett College and Turner Theological Seminary, she became the first black woman to earn a doctoral degree in systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary.