Podcasts about this here flesh

In this beautiful conversation–in which Glennon names Cole's book “This Here Flesh” the Next Right Book–we discuss:  1. What we learned from Cole's insight that, “If you're not in your body, someone else is.”  2. A mind-blowing revelation about all of our own faces that we will never stop thinking about.  3. Why the phrase “If you don't believe you're beautiful, no one else will” is horseshit.   4. Why dignity is the bedrock to being alive–and how to find it when we haven't been loved well.  5. The connection between fear and awe–and how to practice wonder as a cure for despair.  About Cole:  Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the author of the NYT bestseller, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and The Washington Post. Cole is also the creator and writer of Black Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body.  TW: @blackliturgist IG: @colearthurriley @blackliturgies To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode Rose reads a piece from Cole Arthur Riley's book This Here Flesh. She reads from the chapter "belonging." You can check out our growing list of songs on our podcast playlist at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RVqhqSInWEDLzY2PWncEN?si=aAcBbnFNSoy3uOhVO0gHwQ&pi=u-YCFXXYJVSGKf (Soundtrack of Black Aliveness) To get some of the books that we mention on the podcast, please check out our growing collection here: https://bookshop.org/lists/black-and-alive-a-black-coffee-theology-reading-list? https://bookshop.org/lists/black-and-alive-a-black-coffee-theology-reading-list? Please check Rose's substack out at https://agentlelanding.substack.com/ If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app.  You can also support financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out Robert's writing at: https://musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.

Reflections on the Human Experience. In her book, "This Here Flesh," writer Cole Arthur Riley states, "In lament, our task is never to convince someone of the brokenness of this world; it is to convince them of the world's worth in the first place. True lament is not born from that trite sentiment that the world is bad but rather from a deep conviction that it is worthy of goodness." This podcast seeks to consider some of the author's reflections on key themes from her personal stories, challenging us to dig deeply from our stories and biblical themes such as remembrance, memory and lament

No one can take our Dignity, despite how they try to make us feel. Read "This Here Flesh" by Cole Arthur Riley Find Merch here: https://theirrelevant.org/store Join The El Pochcast Discord here: https://discord.gg/AS8RuMHsxJ Twitter: @elpochcast Instagram: @elpochcast Email : elpochcast@ gmail.com El Pochcast is a part of The Irrelevant Podcast Network rapture.mp3 by Vincent Augustus is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support El Pochcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/el-pochcast

This week Antoinette is joined by the breath of fresh air that is Hey Fran Hey. Together they discuss various topics including personal growth, finding balance, and of course The Jerrod Carmichael show. Fran shares her experience of living a calmer and more fulfilling life, while Antoinette talks about her journey of self-discovery and finding her way back to herself. Finally with the help of 'This Here Flesh' by Cole Aurthur Riley Fran walks us through the importance of being present and connected to oneself in order to live a more fulfilling soft life. Join Us. Follow Hey Fran Hey:Website: https://heyfranhey.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyfranhey/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/heyfranhey?lang=enListen to Fran's Webby Award-winning podcast Living for We: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1160361239/living-for-weContact us:Hotline: (215) 948-2780Discord: https://discord.gg/ehvKtK6REmail: aroundthewaycurls@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/aroundthewaycurls for exclusive videos & bonus contentSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, I share more about a quilt I call LIKE FAMILY. It's part of the Southern White Amnesia Collection, which explores the kinds of stories that Southern White families tell one another, or maybe more importantly, the ones they don't tell one another about their own family history. You may have heard me talk about other pieces in the same collection on SEAMSIDE before, and if not, I'd encourage you to check out some of those episodes. So far, we've got SILVER DOLLAR, SNAKE HANDLER, OUR CHILDREN, and ONUS // ON US.In this SEAMSIDE conversation, we explore: ① an old Southern family burial ground ② why the phrase “like family” can often describe a one-sided view of relationships ③ a moment from THIS HERE FLESH by Cole Arthur RileyWHY LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE? This episode weaves together a vulnerable exploration of identity, history, and responsibility, providing listeners with a deep, reflective experience on how historical legacies impact our current world→ Get your free trial to the QUILTY NOOK → Claim your free copy of 10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I STARTED QUILTING → See images and more at the EPISODE WEBSITE → Follow Zak on INSTAGRAM

Join Cole Arthur Riley in conversation with Divya Rosaline David to discuss “Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human.” For 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. In 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. For 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 might be. About the author: Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the NYT bestselling author of This Here Flesh and Black Liturgies. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Cole is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator. To help sustain our work, you can donate here To check out what RLC is up to, please visit us www.redletterchristians.org  Follow us on Twitter: @RedLetterXians Instagram: @RedLetterXians Follow Shane on Instagram: @shane.claiborne Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne Intro song by Common Hymnal: https://commonhymnal.com/ 

For our final episode of 2023, we're compiling a “best of” books and movies by female storytellers from the year. Jamie is an avid reader and Heather is a film enthusiast, so we're sharing some of our favorite content we read and watched. In light of our recent episodes about Taylor Swift and the value of storytelling and creating by women, we thought we'd give you some next steps for where else to look in elevating and celebrating what women make. It was a great year for women, we've got lots of wonderful recommendations! Films: Priscilla - available on VOD (video on demand) Polite Society - available on Prime Video and VOD Bottoms - available on MGM+ and VOD The Marvels - coming to VOD soon, Disney+ in February Barbie - available on Max and VOD Judy Blume Forever – available on Prime Video and VOD Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - available on Prime Video and VOD Past Lives - available on VOD Books: The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife by Shannon Harris All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore Happy Place by Emily Henry The work of Dr. Carmen Imes – Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters and also Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters Order any books through our favorite independent bookseller, Hearts and Minds Bookstore! Send us a screenshot of your order/correspondence and you'll be entered to win a copy of This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley https://www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @excavatepodcast…check there for our honorable mentions that we didn't get to in this episode! To support the podcast on patreon visit: www.patreon.com/excavatepodcast Our patreon perks include new content, zoom calls, and the opportunity for our higher tier options to invite us to your small group.

My heart was deeply moved by this quiet, heartful conversation with Cole Arthur Riley, creator and curator of Black Liturgies (a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation), and author of the books This Here Flesh and the upcoming Black Liturgies:  Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Cole shares her soulful work daily on Instagram. In our conversation we share about our kindred childhood experiences with silence, solitude, and finding our written and spoken voices. Together, we find commonality in the spiritual nature of our work and the use of language in soul service, and in how self-examination becomes more critical for us as we address systemic violence, oppression, and atrocities in the world. We also discuss the medicinal utility of addressing the root of human suffering, violence, and supremacy, rather than emphasizing surface-level social group categorizations.  Our conversation is at once very personal and very timely as we face and address the continuing reality of human crisis and faith as our way home.Sacred Conversations are periodic episodes of my podcast in which I reach out to people whose work and life inspire me, and we simply have an old fashioned phone conversation. No video. No scripted, transactional, extractive, one-sided interview dynamic. Just two people with a care and curiosity for each other's journey, asking each other soulful questions, and enjoying the ancient, mutually healing art of listening deeply. Again, not an interview. A spiritual communion. The idea is for us to relax and enjoy an organic conversation, like over tea or breaking bread, and get to know each other along the way. My books are available at jaiyajohn.com (thank you for purchasing directly from the author) and at booksellers worldwide. Audiobooks, eBooks, book specials, sleep stories, audio talks, apparel, and piano music are exclusively at my website. Thank you for posting your copies of my books on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...    Support the show

Abi and Rich get together to discuss deep interviews with artist Barbara Keal and liturgist and author Cole Arthur Riley. They delve into embodied and contemplative activism and creative responses to injustice and trauma.We hear all about the Coat of Hopes - there is a 10 minute video here telling you more about the project.Cole Arthur Riley also shares about her book This Here Flesh and her digital project Black Liturgies.Other helpful resources: Nine Fold Path - a resource to help you work through Jesus' Beatitudes.Our episode on Peacemakers seems particularly apt at the moment.

If we are not careful living in urban and suburban communities can lead us to believe that human engineering can control nature. However, climate science and human history show us that ultimately nature rules. We all belong to the earth, and we participate in its wonder. How might we live in ways that honor this belonging? How might the wonder we find in the created world encourage us to view ourselves with sacred awe? Conversation Question: In her book This Here Flesh, Cole Aurther Riley describes wonder as “the practice of beholding the beautiful.” Think back to a moment when you experienced wonder and be prepared to share that moment with a friend. www.TheLoftLA.org

On this week's episode of "Can't Afford Therapy," Antoinette, Josh, and SaVon explore the powerful concepts of resilience and joy. Starting with an emotional check-in using the feelings wheel, the trio dives deep into a conversation about finding joy amidst the pain. Next, Antoinette reads an excerpt from Cole Arthur Riley's book, "This Here Flesh," which beautifully captures the highs and lows of the human experience. The hosts then reflect on their own journeys, discussing music's role in evoking emotions and the importance of embracing childlike joy. Tune in for all this and more!   Become a Patron of the "Can't Afford Therapy" podcast for all visual content: Join here https://www.patreon.com/cantaffordtherapypodcast   Be sure to follow the official "Can't Afford Therapy" podcast Instagram for all episode notifications, related content, and MORE: https://www.instagram.com/cantaffordtherapypod/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Our guest, Cole Arthur Riley, talks to us about her brilliant recent book, This Here Flesh, which weaves together four generations of lived experience into a book that is both a theological meditation and a memoir of loss and liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Palm Sunday A | Matthew 21 Our texts this week are here  Our prayer this week: “Jesus Weeps” by Malcolm Guite in the collection Word in the Wilderness … While we lament yet another school shooting in the news cycle this week, we remember that Jesus weeps over all of this too. There have been several commentators that mention a Roman custom of a show of force– that on the other side of the city Pilate would have been parading in on a war horse accompanied by a squadron or two of Roman soldiers. (see Borg & Crossan, The Last Week, pages 1-30) We mentioned @BlackLiturgies and This Here Flesh, by Cole Arthur Riley Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/aplainaccount   Browse the rest of our curated booklists! Purchasing through this affiliate link generates a small commission for us and is a great way to support the show https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount   Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.

This week Shanti is literally fighting sadness while Antoinette fights dehydrated skin. Together, we respond to listener messages and deep dive into a conversation about wonder. Inspired by, Cole Arthur Riley's, "This Here Flesh", we ask ourselves: "What happened to wonder? What happened to awe? Do we still reserve room for them?" Why or why not? Join usDo you have a question or comment you'd like to share with us? Call in! Leave a message!Hotline: (215) 948-2780 Email: aroundthewaycurls@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/aroundthewaycurls for exclusive videos & bonus contentShop ATWC Merch: https://www.aroundthewaycurls.com/collections

To kick off season four of the Sound of the Genuine, Dr. Patrick B. Reyes has a conversation with Cole Arthur Riley. She talks about being a shy, often non-verbal child and how her love of words, nurtured by her family, helped her express herself as a writer at a very young age.Cole currently serves as the spiritual teacher in residence with Cornell University's Office of Spirituality and Meaning Making. She is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion. Her debut book, This Here Flesh is a New York Times bestseller and available wherever books are sold. Portrait Illustration by: Jeanne LolnessMusic by: @siryalibeatsRate, review, and subscribe to Sound of the Genuine on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Interview with author, musician, and activist Andre Henry on his book All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep. In his book and this interview, Andre recalls experiences from throughout his life that have caused him to examine his relationships with White people. He explores ideas such as what it means to break up with white Jesus, seeing black rage as a gift, and complicity among white people who call themselves anti-racist. As always, Spiritual Show and Tell to end the episode: On Repentance And Repair by Danya Ruttenberg, This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley, and a production of Les Misérables. //Notes// -Interview with Andre Henry- All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: https://www.amazon.com/White-Friends-Couldnt-Keep-Hope/dp/0593239881 Andre's Website: https://www.andrehenry.co/ -Spiritual Show and Tell- On Repentance And Repair by Danya Ruttenberg: https://www.amazon.com/Repentance-Repair-Making-Amends-Unapologetic/dp/0807010510 This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley: https://www.amazon.com/This-Here-Flesh-Spirituality-Liberation/dp/0593239776 //About this Podcast// Resist and Restore is a podcast by Circle of Hope. We're extending the table of our dialogue! Tune in bi-weekly as the Circle of Hope pastors—Rachel, Julie, and Jonny—sit down to dialogue about faith, God, Jesus, the spiritual life, and everything in between. Available on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more. //Contact Us// Website: https://circleofhope.church Email: ResistandRestorePodcast@circleofhope.net IG/TW: @circleofhopenet YouTube: https://youtube.com/circleofhope FB: https://fb.me/CircleofHopePhillyRegion Help keep the show running! Contribute at: https://circleofhope.church/share

Christine Valters Paintner is joined by author Claudia Love Mair for a series of video conversations. Each month they take up a new book by or about a voice of color. The community is invited to purchase and read the books in advance and participate actively in this journey of deepening, discovery, and transformation. This month Christine and Claudia Love are joined by Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation. “From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.” So writes Cole Arthur Riley in her unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. In these deeply transporting pages, Arthur Riley reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father, and how they revealed to her an embodied, dignity-affirming spirituality, not only in what they believed but in the act of living itself. Writing memorably of her own childhood and coming to self, Arthur Riley boldly explores some of the most urgent questions of life and faith: How can spirituality not silence the body, but instead allow it to come alive? How do we honor, lament, and heal from the stories we inherit? How can we find peace in a world overtaken with dislocation, noise, and unrest? In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling, Arthur Riley invites us to descend into our own stories, examine our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair, and find that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it. At once a compelling spiritual meditation, a powerful intergenerational account, and a tender coming-of-age narrative, This Here Flesh speaks potently to anyone who suspects that our stories might have something to say to us.

The Faith and Justice Podcast is back! In this opening episode for fall 2022, D.L. Mayfield, Liz Lin, and Peter Choi talk about the past, present, and future work of our community. D.L. and Peter fill us in on why the podcast ended so abruptly last season. And then they settle into a time of reflecting on what it means for us to be a community of learning and belonging.  Links to things we talked about:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673836/this-here-flesh-by-cole-arthur-riley/ (This Here Flesh) by Cole Arthur Riley  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653308/saving-grace-by-kirsten-powers/ (Saving Grace) by Kirsten Powers  https://faithjustice.net/denver (Register for our Fall Gathering in Denver) (Oct 7-9) The Faith & Justice Network is an online learning community pursuing a more beautiful, expansive, and liberating vision of Christian faith in the world. Learn more https://faithjustice.net/ (here).

Sunday, August 14, 2022. Guest Preacher Mira Sawlani-Joyner.  I believe that God intentionally chose to be birthed by an unwed, teenage girl to place a mirror to our own prejudices about women… I believe God intentionally chose to be born as a refugee… Cole Arthur Riley in This Here Flesh, “We need other people to see our own face- to bear witness to their beauty and truth.”

We're continuing with the second part of the conversation with Cole Arthur Riley, author of “This Here Flesh,” co-hosted by Rachael Clinton Chen and Linda Royster from The Allender Center. We'll drop back into the discussion as Rachael asks Cole about the ways she has encountered God in the midst of encountering the trauma and horrors of her own story. If you missed the first part, you can go to the previous episode entitled, "This Here Flesh with Cole Arthur Riley, Part 1" to hear Cole speak about the impact of her family of origin on her life.

What is a digital silent retreat?  In this episode, Laura Murray, a pastor and spiritual director, will tell the story of how she began to use Zoom to lead digital silent retreats while people were quarantining due to Covid, as well as offer insight into how to lead your own digital silent retreats. THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDES:Laura Murray is a pastor, a spiritual director, and regularly hosts digital silent retreats.Laura started leading digital silent retreats as a response to the experience of isolation due to the Covid quarantine that began in March 2020.Laura Murray knew it was important for people to have solitude and silence, but also to have connection—to be able to talk about their experience and what they were feeling.Laura explains how the digital silent retreat is structured.Participants in the digital silent retreats are asked to prepare before they show up, such as putting it on your calendar and letting their families know they'll be unavailable during that time.The digital silent retreats are limited to the host plus eight people.Participants tend to find courage from one another in their sharing in the digital space.Laura Murray reflects on whether it would be better if they met in person.Meeting by Zoom has some advantages over in-person.  For instance, it levels the group socio-economically.According to Laura Murray, hospitality is a cornerstone practice for the digital silent retreats.Two other key practices are generosity and spacious guidance.Hospitality creates safe space for people to open up.  Hospitality also has boundaries.Laura Murray helps us understand the connection between leadership and hospitality.We need to have a clear “why” when doing digital silent retreats.RELEVANT RESOURCES AND LINKS:Laura Murray:Website – www.laurabmurray.com/retreatsBooks mentioned:This Here Flesh, by Cole Arthur RileyChurch Leadership Institute

What does it mean to belong to ourselves and belong to one another? On the weekend of Juneteenth and Father's Day, we look to the words of writer Cole Arthur Riley as Hayley shares thoughts around being personally and communally well. (Image: cover art for “This Here Flesh” by Cole Arthur Riley)

What does it mean to belong to ourselves and belong to one another? On the weekend of Juneteenth and Father's Day, we look to the words of writer Cole Arthur Riley as Hayley shares thoughts around being personally and communally well. (Image: cover art for “This Here Flesh” by Cole Arthur Riley)

Rachael Clinton Chen is joined by Linda Royster from The Allender Center as they co-host this conversation with a very special guest. Cole Arthur Riley is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Executive Curator. She is the author of the New York Times best selling book, This Here Flesh. In the first part of this conversation, Cole talks about the impact of her family of origin and how she came to tell her story. Be sure to stay tuned for the conclusion of this conversation in next week's podcast episode, in which Cole will share how her story led her to a new understanding of the Divine.

In this beautiful conversation–in which Glennon names Cole's book “This Here Flesh” the Next Right Book–we discuss:  1. What we learned from Cole's insight that, “If you're not in your body, someone else is.”  2. A mind-blowing revelation about all of our own faces that we will never stop thinking about.  3. Why the phrase “If you don't believe you're beautiful, no one else will” is horseshit.   4. Why dignity is the bedrock to being alive–and how to find it when we haven't been loved well.  5. The connection between fear and awe–and how to practice wonder as a cure for despair.  About Cole:  Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the author of the NYT bestseller, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and The Washington Post. Cole is also the creator and writer of Black Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body.  TW: @blackliturgist IG:  @colearthurriley @blackliturgies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This month, Americans will pause to commemorate the day when the last enslaved African Americans were notified that they had been set free, on June 19, 1865 (two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation). In this context, Lisa Sharon Harper and Cole Arthur Riley (author of This Here Flesh, creator @BlackLiturgies on Instagram) reflect on the impact of 400 years of subjugation on Black flesh and Black souls. Listen as Cole taps into the spirituality of her father and grandmother to find the resilience needed for the next leg of the journey. 

This week New York Times' Bestselling author of This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley, is in our HER living room sharing a few of her favorite things! Tune in as Cole and I talk about Philly food, the spirituality of Toni Morrison's work, favorite cuss words and what spiritual practice looks like for Cole today. To learn more about Cole's work, visit http://colearthurriley.com.    To get transcripts, links, and details from each episode, check out the show notes. To continue your support of the podcast and my work, become a member of my Patreon community where you can get access to archived episodes, bonus episodes, and behind the scenes content. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter, for podcast clips, poetry quotes and random quips. For information on how to book me to speak or perform at an event, visit amenabrown.com. Thanks for listening and thanks for your support!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are honored to offer you a special guest meditation on Rest by Cole Arthur Riley, New York Times best selling Author of “This Here Flesh.” Cole is also the Creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest, and a project of the Center for Dignity.   This reading and meditation is taken from “This Here Flesh” on the subject of rest. We invite you to enter into a place of centering stillness. Relax any areas of tension you are carrying. Take several slow, deep breaths and become in tune with the Divine breath within you. Then settle in and enjoy a few moments of stillness as we reflect on the gift of rest with Cole Arthur Riley.   For more on Cole and her work, visit www.colearthurriley.com @colearthurriley and @blackliturgies

“I am interested in reclaiming a contemplation that is not exclusive to whiteness, intellectualism, ableism, or mere hobby. And as a Black woman, I am disinterested in any call to spirituality that divorces my mind from my body, voice, or people.”– An excerpt from This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley In Episode 002 of Become A Good Ancestor, Layla Saad interviews writer, liturgist, and speaker, Cole Arthur Riley.Cole's NYT bestselling book, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us is our May 2022 book selection in the Become A Good Ancestor Book Club. To find out more about the book and to join us in the book club click here. In her stunning debut, Cole weaves stories from three generations of her family with contemplative reflections to discover the necessary rituals that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation.Cole's writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. She is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator. Cole currently serves as the spiritual teacher in residence with Cornell University's Office of Spirituality and Meaning Making.In this interview, Layla and Cole explore:How Cole was inspired to write This Here FleshCole's experience with chronic illness and how it shaped her view of owning her body.The experiences of Cole's ancestors and how they not only shaped who she is today, but inspired a book that embodies multiple generational experiencesWhat it means to become disembodied and how this can affect the way we not only see ourselves, but how others see us.“This is the spirituality that if I'm going to do this, I want to communicate this kind of contemplation, this kind of spirituality when it's intergenerational, when that's embodied, when that's emotional.”— Cole Author Riley, Author of This Here Flesh, Episode 002 of Become A Good Ancestor Podcast Learn more and follow Cole Arthur Riley:Website: https://colearthurriley.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackliturgies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackliturgist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackliturgist/ Join the Become A Good Ancestor Community:Website https://www.becomeagoodancestor.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/become_a_good_ancestor/ Book Club https://www.becomeagoodancestor.com/book-club Patreon  www.patreon.com/becomeagoodancestor BookShopU.S.: https://bookshop.org/shop/goodancestorbookclub-usUK: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/goodancestorbookclub-uk 

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.This week Katherine chats to writer and poet Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies. Unable to speak up as a child, Cole talks about how she learned to find her voice amid a family of gifted talkers and storytellers. Cole describes her father and grandmother as inspirational figures who nevertheless were marked by the generational trauma experienced by so many African Americans. But from this emerges Cole's own, unique spiritual account of the world, overseen by a God who lives in our hurting, imperfect bodies, and who sees us as we are.Cole is one of the most lyrical, perceptive and moving writers of her generation, at once cerebral and earthly, and always rooted in the body. We talk about Cole's hair turning grey as a child, her wise grandmother and inspirational father, and the moments when she came to realise that both of them needed her care.COLE LINKSOnlineThis Here FleshBlack LiturgiesAll other Cole links HEREKATHERINE LINKSShop all books from The Wintering SessionsPatreonHomepageTwitterInstagramThe Wintering SessionsKatherine's writing classNote: this contains affiliate links which means Katherine will receive a small commission for any purchases made. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guest, Cole Arthur Riley, talks to us about her brilliant recent book, This Here Flesh, which weaves together four generations of lived experience into a book that is both a theological meditation and a memoir of loss and liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode with the founder of Black Liturgies, Cole Arthur Riley, we discuss the power of sacred attention, the importance of resting in the stories, and what it means to let the true self live in expanse. She defines contemplation as “a certain commitment to paying attention,” and mysticism as “a fidelity to magic,” and shares more about her contemplative writing process for her newly released book, This Here Flesh.

Cole Arthur Riley is a writer, liturgist, and poet, and the creator of Black Liturgies, “a project seeking to integrate concepts of dignity, lament, rage, justice, rest, and liberation with literature and spirituality”. On this week's podcast, she talks about her debut book This Here Flesh: Spirituality, liberation and the stories that make us, which is a New York Times bestseller. An extract is published in this week's Church Times (1 April). Cole is in conversation with Chine McDonald, director of Theos, whose latest book is God is Not a White Man: And other revelations (Hodder & Stoughton) (Podcast, 28 May 2021; (Books, 11 June 2021) This Here Flesh is published by John Murray Press and is available to buy from the Church Times Bookshop for the discounted price of £14.99. https://colearthurriley.com/ Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader.

You know that feeling where you start a thing, and then you blink an eye and all of the sudden you're doing that same thing...but 5 years, 100 podcast episodes, and several worlds away from where you started? Yeah, us too. Anywho, it's Lent, and Dizzy & Ges are still stumbling their way forward with the help of lukewarm drinks, boring temperate fruits, and This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley. So raise a

This episode of "Henri Nouwen, Now & Then" introduces listeners to Cole Arthur Riley, an extraordinary writer and truth teller and the author of the New York Times bestseller and movingly eloquent "This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us" – a book that leaves you with questions, in the best possible way! * EPISODE PAGE: https://henrinouwen.org/listen/cole-arthur-riley/ * PURCHASE "This Here Flesh" by Cole Arthur Riley AMAZON USA: https://amzn.to/3J0pF64 AMAZON Canada: https://amzn.to/3tCuVq0 ____________ * TO WATCH FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY "Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen": www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U8M1gx5Rk4&t=1808s * LISTEN on iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/henrinouwensociety/id1468489942 * LISTEN on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Cxu6BwtNHlzFT7RzlixWJ * WATCH the PODCAST on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iObxkzRYDCA&list=PLq385qyR7NY55D9LhJK5NW-5ERuN2XAH0 * TO SIGN-UP FOR FREE DAILY E-MEDITATIONS: https://henrinouwen.org/meditation/ * FOR HENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY CAREGIVING RESOURCES: https://henrinouwen.org/caregiving/ * MORE FREE RESOURCES: www.henrinouwen.org * READ HENRI NOUWEN BOOKS: https://henrinouwen.org/read/

S7 E15: In this episode, meet writer Amy Bloom, journalist Daniel Genis, and Black Liturgies creator Cole Arthur Riley. Step into the recording booth and hear Amy Bloom discuss what inspired her to share her husband's story, Daniel Genis on using literature to find meaning in 10 years spent incarcerated, and Cole Arthur Riley on the power of storytelling as a family tradition. In Love by Amy Bloom: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/677454/in-love/ Sentence by Daniel Genis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/318647/sentence/ This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673836/this-here-flesh/

In this convo I sit down with Cole to discuss her wonderful book, This Here Flesh. For more information on this podcast and to get extra content from my colleagues; Trey and Sam please go to: http://www.patreon.com/threeblackmen

How do we know when we are in a space of true belonging, where our whole person can be welcome, present, and safe? Co-hosts Patricia Taylor, Kayla Craig, and Lindsy Wallace talk with writer, liturgist, and speaker Cole Arthur Riley about freedom and belonging—the good and the bad kind.In this episode, we:Discuss how Black Liturgies came to be and why Cole chose to initially remain anonymousShare definitions of true belonging: spaces where we have the freedom to question, doubt, and change our minds without our status of belonging being at riskConsider how our bodies know what belonging is as opposed to assimilation or conformityTalk about the importance of solitude to better understand what belonging is for each of usPoint out how not all belonging is good and that there are consequences for both staying and leavingAsk what our ancestors teach us about belonging and liberation from harmful spacesWonder what it looks like for there to be a space of belonging for everyone and how, perhaps, it starts with the least of these to shape that spaceJoin us in this conversation about finding belonging and the community that comes with it. We hope it gives you more language for your journey and imagination for what could be.News, Notes, and Links:Follow Cole and her work on her website, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and be sure to grab a copy of her new book, This Here Flesh.Add Toni Morrison's Beloved to your bookshelf, if you haven't already.Support more conversations like this on Upside Down Podcast! Please visit us, where you can pledge a few dollars of monthly support to help us pay our bills and keep the conversations going.Learn more at Upside Down Podcast.We're on Instagram, too. You can find us individually at @patricia_a_taylor, @kayla_craig, @from_here_sessions, and @lindsy.wallace.Join the Upside Down Together listener group on Facebook!Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/upsidedownpodcast)

This week Stori and Rayah dive into the 2nd week of Lent with Luke 31-35. In this passage, Jesus talks about Jerusalem being the place where prophets go to die. Stori explores the way prophets are often looked at as simply critics, but they also must have an incredible amount of love to stay in a place where they see the flaws and still stay there with the hope that truth can change it for the better.  Rayah draws some parallels between Jesus wanting to care for the people like a hen cares for her chicks and those in power not being willing, to the way the government ties the hands of those that want to help care for their neighbors who are houseless and/or in mental health crisis. Stori sends us off with a beautiful quote from Cole Arthur Riley in This Here Flesh.   Stori Long is a Pastor and Social Media Organizer at Storyline Community in Milwaukie, Oregon. Rayah is a local community member and theology nerd in Milwaukie, Oregon.

The effects of trauma often surface in our embodied existence. What about hope? Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies, talks with Amy Julia Becker about bearing witness to the pain of the world through our bodies, the healing found in belonging, and the importance of weaving together self-care and community-care for social healing.SHOW NOTES AND GIVEAWAYView full show notes and transcript from this episode, plus book giveaway info: amyjuliabecker.com/cole-arthur-rileyGUEST BIO“Cole Arthur Riley is a writer, liturgist, and speaker seeking a deeply contemplative life marked by embodiment and emotion. She is the founder and writer of Black Liturgies, a project seeking to integrate concepts of dignity, lament, rage, justice, rest, and liberation with the practice of written prayer.”___*A transcript of this episode will be available within one business day, as well as a video with closed captions on my YouTube Channel.

In this epsidoe Brandi is joined by creator of Black Liturgies (@blackliturgies) and author of the now out (TODAY) book This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley. They talk about how Black contemplative practices can help us from from outside of our bodies to having greater relationship with ourselves and our connection to the divine. You can find her book where ever books are sold (ITS MAD GOOD, Y'ALL). Our lent devotional has just dropped for this year (the e-book will be up at the end of the week of 2/21), so grab a copy at shoprmt.com!If you like what you hear, subscribe, rate, and review or just tell folks about the show. You can join us on patreon at patreon.com/brandinico. Reclaiming My Theology is recorded, produced, and editted by Brandi Miller, our music is by Sanchez Fair. 

Cole Arthur Riley is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Executive Curator. 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.Read more on "This Here Flesh."Website: https://colearthurriley.com/Twitter/Instagram: @blackliturgies---Find Rose on the internet:  IG  FB Twitter WebsiteHow to support:  PatreonI just launched a newsletter called "A Gentle Landing w/ Rose J. Percy" (Subscription fee optional)--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rose-percy5/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rose-percy5/support Get full access to A Gentle Landing at agentlelanding.substack.com/subscribeSupport the show

On this episode of 20 Minute Takes, Nikki Toyama-Szeto talk with Cole Arthur Riley, the creator of Black Liturgies and author of the new book, This Here Flesh. Listen in as they discuss liturgy, generational strength, and embodied practices of healing and attentiveness.Check out our Q&A with her about her book.You can learn more about Cole, here.In addition to @BlackLiturgies, you can find her @colearthurriley.

“The women in my family are storytellers. They understand the importance of storytelling in intimacy and building connection. They know how to draw out stories. They know how to remember well. If I mirror any part of them today, it would be that.”In this episode I am in the garden with Cole Arthur Riley. Cole shares how she has learned storytelling from the women in her family, how being conscious of her own story affects the way she shows up in the world, and how understanding the stories of the mothers in her life impacts her relationship with them. Cole Arthur Riley is the spiritual teacher in residence with Cornell's Office of Spirituality and Meaning Making. She is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation.Born and for the most part raised in Pittsburgh, Cole studied writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Her debut book, This Here Flesh, will be published by Penguin Random House in February of 2022.

Cole Author Riley, founder of Black Liturgies, joins the show to discuss myths, cults, and her new book This Here Flesh.  

In this episode, Laurie and Ann talk with Cole Arthur Riley, a writer and liturgist who founded Black Liturgies, a project seeking to integrate concepts of dignity, lament, rage, justice, rest, and liberation with the practice of written prayer. In this episode we talk with Cole about her family and upbringing (including her heromaker Dad) and why she was prompted to start Black Liturgies in the summer/fall of 2020. We talk about wrestling with pain and trauma, and why rest and rediscovery may be the answer to our losses and wounds. Cole is honest about the growth of her platform and being authentic to herself, and of course we talk about her upcoming book by Convergent Books - it's a must-read to understand black history and roundedness and to rediscover some missing elements that make for a fuller and richer life. Heromakers can be found on IG @heromakersmovement and on FB @heromakersmovement. You can also visit our website at: https://www.heromakersmovement.com. Cole can be found on Instagram at www.instagram.com/blackliturgies. She is also at https://colearthurriley.com. Her latest book, This Here Flesh - a FANTASTIC READ, can be pre-ordered here.You can watch this and other episodes of the podcast on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVDFP8jEcv5bdhr8VLzXjA. Like us and follow us today!And share this episode with your friends. Want to support this work we do?? We are on PATREON and would love if you would join our growing community! Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/heromakersmovement.