The NBWHP included spiritual health as an axis of health but did this in a way that serves as a model of how spirituality can be included within Black Disability Politics. Most importantly, the NBWHP did not promote any specific religious or spiritual beliefs. Instead the NBWHP centered spirituality, regardless of the faith practice, as a way for Black women to feel connected to a larger sense of purpose and for some as a way to feel some empowerment while dealing with disease or illness. Also notably the NBWHP did not prevent a critique of how religion and the church have oppressed Black women.