Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems is a writer, a minister, a biblical scholar, and a person who has been journaling for more than 30 years. She was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in Old Testament studies. Rev. Dr. Weems has taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Spelman College. She has served as academic dean at American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee. Rev. Dr. Weems received her received both her Doctorate and Master of Divinity from Princeton Seminary; and her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College.

She has lectured and written widely on topics of religion, women in the bible, and women’s spirituality. Among her written works includes the award-winning “Listening for God: A Minister’s Journey Through Silence and Doubt” (2000), which won the Religious Communicators’ Council’s prestigious 1999 Wilbur Award for “excellence in communicating spiritual values to the secular media.”