{"product_id":"black-liturgies-prayers-poems-and-meditations-for-staying-human","title":"Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A true spiritual balm for our troubled times.”—Michael Eric Dyson, author of What Truth Sounds Like\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, she brings together hundreds of new prayers, along with letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment, and a vision for what might be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archimedes' Loft - Books \u0026 More, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48873499885845,"sku":"9780593593646","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/0399\/3621\/files\/9780593593646.jpg?v=1742912677","url":"https:\/\/archimedesloft.com\/products\/black-liturgies-prayers-poems-and-meditations-for-staying-human","provider":"Archimedes' Loft - Books \u0026 More, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}