“I kept saying ‘I’m in pain, I’m in pain,’ but I was completely dismissed and fobbed off – no one looked at me,” recalled Tinuke Awe, a Black mother and campaigner, describing her near-death experience during childbirth in a Guardian article that sparked national concern.[1] Hers is not an isolated story. Black women in the UK are nearly three times more likely to die during childbirth than their white counterparts.[2] Behind this statistic are not just numbers, but stories of pain being ignored, symptoms dismissed, and trauma normalised. While public discourse treats this disparity as a health crisis, it is also a theological one. This article argues that the intersection…