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

Black Liturgies is a powerful collection of prayers, poetry, and spiritual practices that center the Black interior world.

This book offers 43 liturgies for individual or community practice, inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair.

With a poet's touch and sensitivity, Cole Arthur Riley creates rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth, providing a vision for healing and empowerment in a world of both beauty and terror.

Whether you are healing from communities that were more violent than loving, escaping the trauma of white Christian nationalism, religious homophobia, or transphobia, or simply asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment.

Don't miss out on this transformative book that will leave you deeply moved by its beauty, moral clarity, tenderness, and wisdom.