STACEY M. FLOYD-THOMAS is Associate Professor of Ethics and Director of Black Church Studies at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. As the founder and executive director of the Black Religious Scholars Group (BRSG) and a second generation womanist scholar, Dr. Floyd-Thomas is recognized as one of the leading scholarly voices in North America in drawing attention to issues surrounding the Black church and Black women. As a womanist ethicist her intellectual and research interests have been grounded in a passion for social justice and political action that include critical race theory, Black liberation at the intersections of race, class, gender, postcolonial studies, and antiracist education and womanist pedagogy within the U.S. academy. Her scholarly research examines the effects that normative institutions (church, education, family, and nation-states) have on marginalized peoples and the need for womanist methods and constructive ethics that may subvert such forces. She has engaged in justice work and lectured nationally and internationally on subjects ranging from ethical contestable issues in American society to Black religious perspectives and the impacts of sexism and poverty on women in the USA. She is the author of several articles and Mining the Motherlode: Methods in Womanist Ethics (2006) as well as the editor of Deeper Shades of Purple (2006).