Rev. Dr. Danielle "Danie" J. Buhuro is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also Executive Director and lead CPE Supervisor at Sankofa CPE Center. Sankofa offers innovative online Clinical Pastoral Education programming along with unique social justice-oriented clinical work settings and prepares clergy chaplains for board certification. Danielle is passionate about issues of race, gender and sexuality. She is author of Spiritual Care In An Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Examining the Spiritual and Prophetic Needs of African Americans Living In A Violent America. Danielle earned a doctor of philosophy in theology, ethics and human sciences with a focus on pastoral theology from Chicago Theological Seminary. Danielle also holds doctor of ministry and master of divinity degrees. She has served on the national board of directors for ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education. She facilitates numerous workshops nationwide on African American Pastoral Care and African-centered psychology. Danielle is same-gender-loving and currently partnered. She parents a son, Ezekiel Calvin Buhuro. She is committed to excellence and community partnership. Her philosophy of education embraces a pedagogy of helping students enhance their pastoral identity and pastoral competence while improving their pastoral reflection. Rev. Melva L. Sampson, PhD, is a preacher, practical theologian, and digital innovator whose groundbreaking ministry, The Pink Robe Chronicles, has created sacred space for healing, imagination, and liberation. An assistant teaching professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, she weaves womanist wisdom, ancestral memory, and Afrofuturist vision into her scholarship and storytelling. Her work bridges the digital hush harbor, embodied spirituality, and communal flourishing, inviting readers into a practice of love, resilience, and justice.
Description
Chapter 1. Our Digital Lives This chapter traces key historical foundations of digital technology and the rise of social media as a cultural and spiritual force. The chapter names the reality that social media is not neutral. Rather, social media shapes identities, distributes power, and influences how human dignity is affirmed or denied. As a result, the chapter examines digital spaces as a new spiritual frontier where online meaning-making, harm, and healing intersect, especially for Black women navigating digital life.
Chapter 2. Shades of Black Womaness and Social Media Violence Building on Malcolm Xs declaration that Black women are the most disrespected people in America, this chapter explores various historical, political, and cultural forces that lead toward anti-Black misogyny in digital spaces. It offers an overview of the concept of the cultural production of evil by womanist ethicist Emilie Townes and social medias ways of such cultural production. The chapter highlights various experiences of contemporary Black women. And it explores how Black Muslim women encounter unique experiences of digital harm.
Chapter 3. Care-fronting and Digital Resistance for Trans Sistahs Exploring the concept of care-fronting presented by pastoral counselor David Augsburger, this chapter urges spiritual leaders to confront transphobia and provide care for Black trans women, who disproportionately face digital violence. The chapter correlates the experience of the biblical figure Rizpah with how Black trans women in particular encounter harm disproportionately. And it highlights the need for digital spiritual care thats unique for Black trans women.
Chapter 4. A Digital Spiritual Practice of Celebration In naming a digital theological anthropology, this chapter examines how human dignity, spirituality, and belonging can be embodied in digital spiritual care. This chapter draws from Africana pastoral theology and the womanist tradition to affirm the sacredness of Black lived experience. And it presents a framework for digital celebration as a strategy for Black womens healing.
Chapter 5. The Spiritual Frontier of Artificial Intelligence This chapter explores AI as the newest dimension of digital life affecting spiritual care. It examines how AI shapes information, identity, and human connection--and how its embedded biases can either harm or help marginalized communities. Through a case study, the chapter investigates how Black women experience AI-based platforms and raises ethical questions about who controls data and digital narratives. It calls for spiritually grounded, responsible engagement with AI that resists erasure and reimagines technology as a tool for collective liberation.