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Our Liberation Depends On Reshaping The Future Like This

Our Liberation Depends On Reshaping The Future Like This

Change is inevitable, but when we embrace it as a truth of life, we are empowered to take action toward making necessary changes. The best part is God is on our side, helping reshape everything around us.

How To Share Your Truth As An Act of Divine Courage

How To Share Your Truth As An Act of Divine Courage

Truth telling takes courage. For some people, our truths might land as an “unpopular opinion.” For others our truths are wisdom that helps them on their own journey. First and foremost, sharing our truths honors who God made us to be.

Gideon’s Story Reminds Us God Is With Us In Our Toughest Battles

Gideon’s Story Reminds Us God Is With Us In Our Toughest Battles

“The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” – Judges 6:11. Gideon was not a confident leader. He even had moments where he doubted God. But God was patient with him, reminding him how important it is to lean into faith when our battles seem impossible.

The Unsung Heroes Keeping Black Faith and Freedom Alive

The Unsung Heroes Keeping Black Faith and Freedom Alive

You are deserving of the truth. Griots are culture keepers whose work reminds us that God’s love for us is unwavering and liberation is His will.

How To Remain Present In Your Body To Cope With Trauma

How To Remain Present In Your Body To Cope With Trauma

If your body were a sponge, your spirit would be the teeny-tiny pores soaking up the energy surrounding you. We're constantly healing from inherited ancestral trauma and from today's anti-Black violence. Here's how to remain present through it all.

3 Important Lessons About The Sacredness Of Grief

3 Important Lessons About The Sacredness Of Grief

Your spirit is resilient. Even when met with grief, you can endure. Here are three things to consider about the sacred relationship between grief and love.

Celebrating Our Differences Teaches Us One Of The Most Divine Lessons

Celebrating Our Differences Teaches Us One Of The Most Divine Lessons

True unity is when we are strengthened by our differences. As Black people we come in all colors, shapes, sizes, and ethnicities. We walk, talk, pray, and think in different ways. Our differences are what make us beautiful and divine.

4 Powerful Ways To Heal Your Sacral Chakra And Find Emotional Clarity

4 Powerful Ways To Heal Your Sacral Chakra And Find Emotional Clarity

You deserve emotional clarity, to feel creative, and to tap into your power. If any of these things feel unbalanced, you may have a blocked sacral chakra – here’s how to unblock it.

Why Surrendering Can Be Just As Important As Rising Up

Why Surrendering Can Be Just As Important As Rising Up

“Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.’ When he said this, he breathed his last breath.” – Luke 23:46. When we think about revolution, we often think about the act of rising up. But what about the action of surrendering?

Tips And Routines To Help Us ‘Stay Whole’ In Our Bodies

Tips And Routines To Help Us ‘Stay Whole’ In Our Bodies

Author and founder of Black Liturgies, Cole Arthur Riley writes, “There are systems in this world that have everything to gain from your disembodiment. Because emptied bodies are easier to use. Stay whole.” Here are tips and routines to help us “stay whole” in our bodies and aligned with Spirit.

What The Good Samaritan Teaches Us About Black Liberation

What The Good Samaritan Teaches Us About Black Liberation

Love is all around you. From self-love to God’s love, we all deserve love in abundance. God wants us to love our people and our Blackness in spite of how we might be portrayed by others. This scripture is the perfect reminder.

How To Embrace Stillness To Get Closer To God

How To Embrace Stillness To Get Closer To God

The world is noisy. Stillness is a sacred practice that can benefit us spiritually when we embrace it, and here’s how. You deserve peace.

How Wearing Black Can Enhance Your Spiritual Strength and Beauty

How Wearing Black Can Enhance Your Spiritual Strength and Beauty

The power of Blackness lives in our very skin. Our melanin oozes with the power of our divinity and it’s only enhanced when we wear black. Here’s how you step into your own beautiful light by donning black.

The Ways Our Grief Has Always Been All About Love

The Ways Our Grief Has Always Been All About Love

Grief will knock on all of our doors at some point, and although it may feel like it, grieving doesn’t have to knock us down. Remember these important lessons the next time grief washes over you.

This Valentine’s Day Alternative Is Rooted In Sacred African Traditions

This Valentine’s Day Alternative Is Rooted In Sacred African Traditions

Today many people celebrate Valentine’s Day, but did you know there is an alternative that celebrates our history and unity across the globe? It’s called Akoma Day and it invites us to return to loving each other.

Let Our Devotion To God Get Us Into Good Trouble

Let Our Devotion To God Get Us Into Good Trouble

“We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized.” — Hebrews 6:10. Our ancestors were powerful, but they were also persistent. Their resistance efforts took months of planning. But they were ready to get into good trouble. Are we?

How Negro Spirituals Helped Our People Talk To God

How Negro Spirituals Helped Our People Talk To God

When times get hard, we can always lean on God’s word. Our ancestors knew this well, and these spirituals remind us of the understanding of God’s love for our people.

The Untold Spiritual Battles of MLK That Apply To Us All

The Untold Spiritual Battles of MLK That Apply To Us All

In moments when we doubt ourselves, it’s easy to lose hope. But only God knows what we were sent here to do. The moments of the strongest self-doubt are the moments we most need to surrender to Spirit. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. surely learned this lesson.

The Most Sacred Thing We Can Experience Is Being Witnessed In Love

The Most Sacred Thing We Can Experience Is Being Witnessed In Love

It is said the eyes are the windows of the soul. But what are windows? Many African societies believed windows are sacred, and with good reason.

Turn Your Everyday Actions Into Offerings

Turn Your Everyday Actions Into Offerings

We all deserve to feel cared for. Offerings are usually made at the foot of altars or on church collection plates, but what if we considered every action an offering?

Devoting Ourselves To Spirit Is How We Defeat Darkness

Devoting Ourselves To Spirit Is How We Defeat Darkness

“Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit…was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.” – Luke 4. The Devil will always try tempting us, but when we devote ourselves to God we’ll always find paths of liberation amidst the anti-Black wilderness.

Our Power Lies In Our Protest. Our Protest Is Rooted In Faith

Our Power Lies In Our Protest. Our Protest Is Rooted In Faith

“By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested?” – Isaiah 53:7. Often we wait for leaders to guide us in our protest efforts, but we are all capable leaders. Our power lies in our protest. Our protest is rooted in faith.

We Honor Our Ancestors When We Remember Them Laughing

We Honor Our Ancestors When We Remember Them Laughing

Black laughter is more than medicine. It’s an important weapon in our spiritual warfare toolkit. Our ancestors laughed in the face of anti-Blackness, whooping and hollering as a form of resistance. And so should we.

These Dolls Aren’t Just Child’s Play, They’re Spiritual Tools

These Dolls Aren’t Just Child’s Play, They’re Spiritual Tools

Not all of our spiritual gestures have to be grand. Within many Afro-Diasporic traditions something as simple as gifting someone a doll can be seen as the utmost sign of respect. Just look at Xhosa women and their powerful Ndebele dolls.

This Small, Simple Act of Joy Can Transform Pain Into Power

This Small, Simple Act of Joy Can Transform Pain Into Power

The indomitable spirit of our ancestors found solace and strength in the art of joyful resistance. And with this one simple act, we can manifest the promise of a brighter future for generations to come.