Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley - ISBN: 9781399814997
Hardcover
Find healing and liberation through Black spiritual practice and ancestral wisdom.

Black Liturgies

Prayers, poems and meditations for staying human

$56.80

  • Hardcover

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 2024

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Summary

In the summer of 2020, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amidst 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 harbour for 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, memory, and the Black body.

In this book, she deepens the work of th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399814997
ISBN-10:1399814990
Author:Cole Arthur Riley
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:30 April 2024
Weight:440g
Dimensions:220mm x 144mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

Cole Arthur Riley is a spiritual guide and a gift in our lives. Restoring us to ourselves and reminding us of our humanness, our fragility, and the strength of faith, she calls us back to community, to breath, to our god-given selves. Black Liturgies is true spiritual balm for our troubled times. * Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author of What Truth Sounds Like *
Black Liturgies is a garden for the soul. With rare wisdom, beautiful clarity, and generous vulnerability, Cole Riley brings her whole self to these letters, verses, and promptings, offering bright, deep truths about who we are and can be as Black women, Black people, and human beings. Hold these luminous words close and let them be your balm. * Tiya Miles, National Book Award winning author of All That She Carried *
Honest, real and well-crafted. * Christianity Magazine *

About The Author

Cole Arthur Riley

Cole Arthur Riley is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space where Black words of dignity, lament, rage, and rest, are curated and integrated with a liberating spirituality. She serves as the content and spiritual formation manager for Chesterton House: A Center for Christian Studies at Cornell University. Born and for the most part raised in Pittsburgh, Cole studied Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She once took a professor’s advice very seriously to begin writing a little every day, and has followed it for nearly a decade.

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