{"product_id":"black-liturgies-prayers-poems-and-meditations-for-staying-human-by-cole-arthur-riley","title":"Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human By Cole Arthur Riley","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of prayers, poems, and spiritual practices centering the Black interior world, from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Here Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand creator of Black Liturgies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFor years, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amid ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the pandemic, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces, she began dreaming of a more human, more liberating expression of faith. She went on to create Black Liturgies, a digital project that connects spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black memory, and the Black body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, she brings together hundreds of new prayers, along with letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scripture, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer forty-three liturgies that can be practiced individually or as a community. Inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth, Arthur Riley writes with a poet’s touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor anyone healing from communities that were more violent than loving; for anyone who has escaped the trauma of white Christian nationalism, religious homophobia, or transphobia; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Liturgies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a work of healing and empowerment, and a vision for what might be.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42812963520590,"sku":"9780593593646","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/5329\/9534\/files\/9780593593646.jpg?v=1755705134","url":"https:\/\/namastebookshop.com\/products\/black-liturgies-prayers-poems-and-meditations-for-staying-human-by-cole-arthur-riley","provider":"Namaste Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}