Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

by Cole Arthur Riley

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336 pages~5.6 hr readPublished by Crown Publishing Group, ThePublished 2024-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

  • You're healing from religious trauma or anti-Black spaces and need spiritual practices that actually feel safe.
  • You want to ground your faith in your body, your memory, and your community rather than abstract doctrine.
  • You're drawn to meditative writing that speaks to rage, rest, and repair as equally sacred experiences.

Maybe not for you if...

  • You're looking for traditional Christian theology or biblical commentary in the conventional sense.
  • You prefer structured religious instruction over exploratory, poetic spiritual practice.
  • You're not interested in examining how race, faith, and embodiment intersect in your own spirituality.

About this book

A collection of prayers, poems, and spiritual practices centered on the Black interior world. Cole Arthur Riley created Black Liturgies as a digital project connecting spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black memory, and the Black body, born from her search for a spirituality she could trust amid national racial violence, pandemic isolation, and anti-Black rhetoric in Christian spaces. The book brings together hundreds of new prayers alongside letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures, and writings from Black literary ancestors. It offers forty-three liturgies that can be practiced individually or communally, inviting readers to reflect on shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair. The collection includes rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth. Intended for those healing from violent communities, those who have left white Christian nationalism or religious homophobia and transphobia, and anyone seeking meaning in a world of both beauty and terror, Black Liturgies presents a vision of healing and empowerment.

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