![]() ![]() And then eventually, they all collapse in the grass together and listen to her sermon, which starts, “In this here place, we flesh. First, she leads them in this embodied, emotional spiritual experience, asking the men and the women and the children to laugh, and dance, and cry. ![]() In the book, there’s this place they call The Clearing, where the matriarch, Baby Suggs, gathers all her people for a holy meeting. The title comes from a scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Why did you title your book This Here Flesh? ![]() Her new book, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, is published by Convergent Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Today we talk with Cole Arthur Riley, 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. This month, we are introducing you to some incredible Black authors and thinkers who are helping us find a pathway to sustainable peace-building, ongoing reconciliation, and honest reflection. ![]()
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