Behind the Book: When We Talk to God by Sharifa Stevens

Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Truth’s Table is back with another Behind the Book Episode! Ekemini and Christina are delighted to sit at the table with Sharifa Stevens, author of When We Talk to God: Prayers and Poems for Black Women. This episode is full of laughs and authenticity, which reflects the emotional range of Sharifa’s book. Sistas, join us at the table!

Learn more about our guest:

Sharifa Stevens is a writer, poet, speaker, and singer. She is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, born and raised in New York, and currently resides with her family in Dallas, Texas. She graduated from Columbia University in New York with a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies before earning a master’s in theology from Dallas Theological Seminary. Sharifa aspires to use writing as a vehicle that moves readers to intersect with the sacred and the honest. She co-authored Only Light Can Do That and contributed to the books Vindicating the Vixens, Rally, and Lecrae’s upcoming Set Me Free. Sharifa is married to a Renaissance man and is a mother to two lively boys.

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0:00.0	This episode of Truth's Table is brought to you by our N-AACP Image Award nominated book,
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0:14.1	Sisters, how y'all feel?
0:16.1	Brothers, y'all all right?
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0:41.0	Hey y'all. Welcome to Truth's Table. Midwives of Culture for Grace and Truth. I'm Khamini. And I'm Christina. This table is built by black women and four black women. So welcome to
0:46.2	the table. See, how you doing, girl? Well, welcome to you to the table. I'm doing okay. How are you
0:51.4	today? Girl, I am good. I am good. I have some allergies, you know.
1:00.1	Do they have you? Do you have allergies or do allergies have you?
1:03.2	The allergies have me. The allergies. No, don't confess it. Don't confess it. Don't confess it.
1:07.8	Yeah, you're right. They do have me. That's why I'm a little bit more, you know, a little bit more bad today because I was like, you know what, these allergies, they kick it. They kick it.
1:18.0	I know. I know. And, you know, there's all kinds of C-O-Nspiracy, conspiracy theories about what's happening with the allergens in the environment, you know, desperate times
1:28.9	make you eager to adopt conspiracy theories. So I just want to be clear about that. So I've heard
1:34.3	some things about what's happening with the trees. I don't know if it's true, but it feels right
1:40.5	and wrong at the same time. So many conspiracies, so many. So I'm sorry. I have not,
1:47.5	you know, I've got a whole, we didn't have an episode about what you're going to do about these
1:51.4	allergies. I really think, I think that we, I think it's a problem. I think we could actually
1:57.1	have a whole conversation. But we certainly need to take our allergy issues to the Lord in prayer. And today, and today, we have a woman of God with us today who has
2:07.2	given us a whole book of all the things that we as black women can take to God in prayer. Tell the people
2:13.8	who we got at the table today. We have a behind the book episode about when we talk to God.
2:20.9	And we have the author here, the table, Sharifa Stevens.
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