This Here Flesh

Spirituality, Liberation and the Stories That Make Us

This Here Flesh
Cole Arthur Riley
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Hardback
h222 x 138mm - 224pg
24 Feb 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529372793
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' This is the kind of book that make you different when you' re done. ' - Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody' s Daughter' 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 an unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. In these deeply transporting pages, Cole reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father and encounters of enfleshed, embodied spirituality. As she writes memorably of her own lived experiences of childhood and selfhood, Cole 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 honour, lament, and heal from the stories we inherit? How can we find peace in a world overtaken with dislocation, noise, and unrest? At once a compelling spiritual meditation and a tender coming-of-age narrative, This Here Flesh invites us to ponder the site of the soul by examining our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair - and finding that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it. ' Exquisite' - Ayo Tomenti, co-founder of Black Lives Matter
At a time when establishing peace within one' s own soul is so vitally important, this book is a balm - reminding me to exercise the spiritual muscle of awe, to notice the simple and to find beauty in the ordinary. -- Ben Lindsay, Author of We Need To Talk About Race In This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley reaches deep beneath the surface of words unspoken, wounds unhealed, and secrets untempered to break them open in order for fresh light to break through. Her personal anecdotes alongside Biblical anchors are serene vehicles through which any reader will remember the preciousness of their body, humanity, and most of all, their dignity. -- Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING This book is an invitation into the delicate weavings of family, inheritance, and pain, how they mark a bloodline, and connect a people. Rileywrites with all the grace and gravity the spirit of humanity deserves. And somehow teaches us to think of ourselves as deserving of such grace, along the way. This is the kind of book that make you different when you' re done. -- Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of SOMEBODY' S DAUGHTER This book is breathtaking. Full of profound revelation and beauty woven into poetry, unforgettable imagery and story, it will stay with me long after I' ve read it. I will keep returning to its pages, ready to hear in Cole Arthur Riley' s reflections new ways to see myself, my family, my faith and my God. Who knew truth-telling could be so beautiful? -- Chine McDonald, author of GOD IS NOT A WHITE MAN Welcome the rising of Cole Arthur Riley' s astonishing voice. This is a gorgeous and muscular work. -- Krista Tippett, host of On Being Timeless. This is a book I know I will return to again and again. Through this work, I am reminded I am seen. I am reminded I am free. -- Morgan Harper Nichols, artist and poet Exquisite. . . Arthur Riley' s writing is both transporting and hauntingly intimateas she narrates this important account of generational inheritance. The stories and meditations in this book are sure to stay with you forever. -- Ayo Tometi, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Through a narrative of family and generation, Cole Arthur Riley speaks of a Blackness so beautiful it can' t be contained and a liberation that is present and possible. This Here Flesh is an invitation to hold space, return home and rediscover joy. -- Amena Brown, poet, author, and host of HER with Amena Brown podcast Beautiful. Soul-stirring. . . we rediscover a sense of awe for the bodies that make us, the stories that ground us, and the delicate grace that enlivens our spirits. -- Kate Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of NO CURE FOR BEING HUMAN This Here Flesh is a gospel to what we remember. This book is rigorous, joyous, complex, honest and tells the story of how we get free. It is a story that would not let me go. -- Dante Stewart, author of SHOUTIN' IN THE FIRE [A] wonderfully winsome, heartbreakingly honest, and ever-poetic work of spiritual biography and theological reflection. While some theologians will talk in the abstract about ' incarnation,' ' enfleshment,' or ' embodiment,' Arthur Riley' s book is a lesson in concreteness, in Black theology, in seeing a body, being a body, being a person rooted in time, space, stories, and very particular flesh. * Library Journal (starred review) *
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529372793
Published: 24 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Faith
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 138mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 224

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