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[1] \u00a0Rev Dr. Cheryl Stewart Pero, the second Black Lutheran woman ordained in the Lutheran Church in America, the first \u00a0Black woman in the ELCA to receive a doctorate in\"\" New Testament studies, and a leading scholar, pastor, and community builder, died on October 28th<\/sup>, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0 For a woman who encouraged and empowered so many others, JLE presents two tributes in her honor.<\/p>\n

From The Rev. Dr. Beverly R. Wallace<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1] Jamaican Womanist Theologian Dr. Marjorie Lewis writes, \u201cfor Caribbean women, the point of departure for doing theology is the iconic figure of Nanny of the Maroons\u201d. \u00a0<\/em>Nanny of the Maroons, along with her brothers (sounds familiar) waged a successful guerrilla war against the colonizing British in the 17th<\/sup> century. \u00a0Nanny and her daughters, those who followed, had to face the complexities of claiming agency in the struggle for freedom and fullness of live, fighting for the community with their heart, mind, soul, and body while navigating the perils and possibilities of shared leadership. This Caribbean womanist theological perspective, perhaps not fully articulated, \u00a0was embodied and actualized in the life and work of Dr. Cheryl Angela Stewart Pero.<\/p>\n

[2] It is well known how much Cheryl embraced her Jamaican heritage. It is also known how much she fought against colonizing ways of doing theology and theological education. We know too how much in her Nanny Maroonish ways Dr. Cheryl fought for the community – with her heart, mind, soul, and finally her body. And we know she fought this fight alongside her beloved Pete, professor of Systematic Theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.<\/p>\n

[3] But before there was a Pete and Cheryl, there was a Cheryl. Dr. Chery Stewart Pero was a theologian in her own right. I first encountered the Rev. Cheryl Stewart before she became Rev. Cheryl Pero in some her writings in the 1980s. She was engaging in theological discourse even before she received her Ph.D.<\/p>\n

[4] \u00a0Of course, her work was articulated not only in writings \u2013 as often that seems to be the measure appreciated by the academy \u2013 but her work can be and will be measured by the lives she touched. Often, we don\u2019t know the impact of one work one\u2019 calling, one\u2019s life until we are called to glory and in retrospect. Cheryl gathered the women in the Conference of International Black Lutherans \u2013 the African and African diasporic teaching theologians of the Lutheran Church, once in Zimbabwe. There we met Margaret Obaga. What was not known was that years later sister Margaret from Kenya would become Dr. Obaga teaching in Germany. \u00a0More women would follow, \u00a0shaping the landscape of Lutheran theology. We think of Dr. Elieshi Mungure now working in Geneva with the Lutheran World Federation making a difference and Dr. Monica Melanchton teaching in Melbourne, Australia. \u00a0Dr. Cheryl Pero in her own way influenced in a sundry of ways the means by which African and African diasporic women thought about and embraced the importance of sisters in the academy and beyond. Dr. Cheryl Angela Stewart Pero\u2019s impact is global.<\/p>\n

[5] Like Nanny of the Maroon, Dr. Cheryl of the Chicago (or is it New York), has brought more sisters following the footsteps or perhaps the smoke rings of this Caribbean womanist theologian who yelled for a Womanist way to be taught in the academy and<\/em> in the community*. The work remains.<\/p>\n

[6] Dr. Selenir Kronbauer, professor at EST school of theology in Brazil who attended another CIBL conference in 2005, \u00a0wrote the following upon the news of Dr. Cheryl\u2019s death:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe energy of the ancestry is strong with the arrival of the warrior Dr. Cheryl Pero. \u00a0Where ever you are, Dr. Cheryl, you will continue to emit joy, courage, and the wisdom for us to never give up on dreams, and to continue the pursuit of justice, and equal rights for Afro descent and other excluded people\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n

Rest in peace dear sistah Rev. Dr. Cheryl Angela Stewart Pero. Your story and legacy remain in our lives – and for generations to come.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

*Note: These remarks were first presented at the Memorial Service to honor Dr. Cheryl Pero, November 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From The Rev. Dr. H. Paul Santmire<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1] Cheryl Stewart was a student of mine many years ago, when I served as Chaplain and Lecturer in Religion at Wellesley College.\u00a0 I know from what she told me years later that she was wary of me when she first arrived on campus, because she had been raised as a Missouri Synod Lutheran and I was some other kind of Lutheran Pastor.\u00a0 Even more troubling for her, she told me later, was the fact that I had the reputation of being a \u201cliberal Christian\u201d who was against the war in Vietnam.\u00a0 Also, in those days, as she well knew, I was involved with some student leaders who were pushing the College to admit more Black students.\u00a0 When we one day did get to know each other for the first time, however, such issues never came up.<\/p>\n

[2] Front and center, rather, was the personal crisis that she was enduring at the time, which was not unlike the issues many young women at Wellesley had to address in those days.\u00a0 Of interest, in retrospect, is this striking fact:\u00a0 she and I never talked about any issues regarding her being Black and me being White at the then egregiously White college where we both found ourselves, even though I had on a number of occasions massaged our conversations in the direction of such a discussion.\u00a0 Then I didn\u2019t see her for some time.\u00a0 She only rarely attended the college chapel where I presided.\u00a0 But then, to my surprise, toward the end of her junior year, she made an appointment with me.<\/p>\n

[3] Much later, she talked about that conversation in public.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t at all sure about what she wanted to do with her life after her graduation, she said.\u00a0 At one point, in a subsequent appointment, I felt comfortable saying to her:\u00a0 \u201cCheryl, have you ever thought about becoming a pastor?\u201d\u00a0 She stared at me as if she had seen a ghost.\u00a0 \u201cNever,\u201d she said, emphatically.\u00a0 A couple of months later, she made another appointment.\u00a0 \u201cI want to tell you,\u201d she said, \u201cI have decided to go to seminary.\u00a0 I have decided to be a pastor.\u00a0 I want to thank you for putting that idea in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

[4]\u00a0 Many years later, she told that very story to a room full of people at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, during the discussion after a lecture that I had just given.\u00a0 Everyone applauded.\u00a0 I was in tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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