Spirituality, Liberation and Stories that Make Us
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Oct 22, 2022 12pm - 2pm
Location
Christ Church Cathedral
125 Monument Circle
Details
Cole Arthur Riley, author of “This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us,” will offer a session on writing, spirituality and liberation on Saturday, Oct. 22.
Riley is a writer and poet. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. She 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, an online space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body, and a curator of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation.
The session will focus on Riley’s writings and her understanding of spirituality rooted in the past of her ancestors and in present and future liberation.