Since its initial emergence thirty years ago, womanist theological ethics seeks to dismantle theological and cultural constructs that disavow Black women’s full humanity as imago dei (made in the image of God) and incarnate potential to enliven freedom. Critically engaging political scientist Melissa Harris Perry’s conception of Black women existing in a crooked room due to negative stereotypes and pejorative assumptions, I argue Black women face bendedness by multidimensional oppressions embedded in discursive inscriptions that bear both metaphorical and actual “weight” on their bodies. America’s gaze toward the Black female body locates Black women in a crooked society that misrecognizes and misjudges their moral character. Moreover, Black women of faith face contempt by a crooked gospel that reinforces society’s mischaracterization theologically. This dissertation takes up the narrative of the bent woman in Luke 13:10-17 as ripe for womanist theo-ethical inquiry because it parallels with the historical and contemporary narratives of the Black female body bent multiple by pervasive threats seeking to stifle survival in a multi-traumatic world. My womanist reading of Luke 13:10-17 engages the unnamed woman’s bent-body and liberation that uncovers the true crooked characters, both religious leaders and members of the socio-religious community, who aim to suppress her liberation. The project takes up the works of Kelly Brown Douglas, Anthony Pinn, M. Shawn Copeland, and Eboni Marshall Turman who emphasize a turn to embodiment as a central locus for the study of Black faith and life. Constructing a womanist cultural phenomenology, I aim to articulate that Black women possess “matter” mediated by their bodies necessary to confront a crooked moral fabric within Black religion and the broader American society.