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Feeling Low? A Good Laugh May Be Just What You Need

Feeling Low? A Good Laugh May Be Just What You Need

You deserve to laugh until you cry and your stomach hurts. There’s so much bad stuff happening around us that sometimes we need a good laugh. And seriously, laughing’s good for your mental and physical health.

What Does Being Of Service To God Mean?

What Does Being Of Service To God Mean?

To be vessels for God means we dedicate our lives to service. We understand that service doesn’t just stop at “one good deed.” It’s a consistent practice. An endless prayer. Service so sacred that when death greets us, it’s with the words, “Servant of God. Well Done.”

We Come From A Line Of Sacred Magicians

We Come From A Line Of Sacred Magicians

Our ancestors were magicians who were constantly performing acts of creative genius, spiritual warfare, and Black love. They had to. The art of escape was the only option. Here’s why.

How Asking For Care Helps Build Connection

How Asking For Care Helps Build Connection

What’s your favorite way to receive care? Such a simple question, and yet for so many of us it’s hard to admit when we’re seeking connection with and care from our community. But here’s what making a bid for connection can teach us about faith.

Community Care Is Our Phoenix Rising From The Ashes

Community Care Is Our Phoenix Rising From The Ashes

While we sit with the grief of California's wildfires, let us not allow our faith to go up in smoke, too. Now is the time to lean on each other. Now’s the time to ask God, “How can I be a resource to my community?”

What Would You Do If God Mailed You This Invitation?

What Would You Do If God Mailed You This Invitation?

Imagine you get an engraved invitation from God. You open it, see your name, and read these words: “Yes or No?” There’s no other clue, no words on whether this is a blessing or trial that will require perseverance. You feel a tingle course through you. How will you RSVP to God?

How To Be Ten Toes Down With Spirit

How To Be Ten Toes Down With Spirit

When was the last time you stood on business? Sometimes society is quick to try telling us what we can and can’t do. But true freedom means standing on business each and every day, knowing Spirit will guide us through.

Faith Is Believing Our Fight For Freedom Isn’t In Vain

Faith Is Believing Our Fight For Freedom Isn’t In Vain

When life tests us, we might wonder if our efforts to seek Spirit are in vain. Even when it feels like a war is raging on the inside, trust that Spirit is always there to guide us through.

Go Where God Tells You To Be

Go Where God Tells You To Be

We’re children of God, meaning we belong wherever God is present. Be sure and tell them that the next time they try telling you where you’re “allowed to be.”

We Each Have A Unique Way Of Sensing Spirit

We Each Have A Unique Way Of Sensing Spirit

How do you sense the Spirit? Everyone can talk to Spirit. And each of us has our own special way of sensing Spirit. This is what’s called our “sixth sense.” Time to tap in.

The Spirit Resides Wherever There Is Water

The Spirit Resides Wherever There Is Water

Water is a divine teacher and spiritual metaphor. It reminds us to consider how life's currents guide us to the Spirit. Their river is perhaps the most sacred. Why?

What Gospel Music Teaches Us About Devotion

What Gospel Music Teaches Us About Devotion

Whenever we recognize God’s devotion within us, we can create anything we put our minds to. She did, taking this city and gospel music genre by storm, bringing divine thunder in her wake. Where will you focus your devotion?

The Black Love We Need To Bless The World With

The Black Love We Need To Bless The World With

We talk about romantic Black love, but what about spiritual Black love? This type of love is ours to bless the world with. Who are you going to bless with your love today?

Trouble Communicating? Start With Your Throat

Trouble Communicating? Start With Your Throat

There is freedom in speaking your truth. Anti-Blackness works hard to keep us voiceless, but these strategies for unblocking the throat chakra work even harder.

The Soul Of Black Folks Lives In Our Name

The Soul Of Black Folks Lives In Our Name

For generations, they forced names on us: slave, Negro, colored, African-American, “Black.” But we wanted a name For Us, By Us. A name that honored our enslaved ancestors and the culture they created and preserved. A sacred name that celebrates our Soul power.

Why The Love We Receive From Ancestors Is The Most Sacred

Why The Love We Receive From Ancestors Is The Most Sacred

Even more than romantic love, the love we receive from our ancestors has the potential to be the most reciprocal love we will ever know. Here’s how to recognize and return it.

Let’s Get Creative With Our Protest

Let’s Get Creative With Our Protest

You deserve to live in the spotlight. The way you think, create, and use your voice to take a stand gives main character energy. So go ahead, step into your light and shine. Spirit will always be there to give you a round of applause.

Which Talent Did God Bless You With?

Which Talent Did God Bless You With?

We all have been blessed with a talent to remind us that we’re highly favored by God. But sometimes it’s easy to get lost in the ego that comes with talent. This is when we must remember that God intended for our talents to be tools.

Our Beloved Negro Spirituals Were First Sung As Plantation Prayers

Our Beloved Negro Spirituals Were First Sung As Plantation Prayers

We can all agree that singing is sometimes the best way to lift our spirits.That was also true for our ancestors when it came to spirituals. And this makes sense since so many of them were composed by an enslaved man. Here’s why we need to know who he was.

This Common Snack Has Deep Spiritual Roots—And You’ve Probably Never Noticed

This Common Snack Has Deep Spiritual Roots—And You’ve Probably Never Noticed

Our ancestors' devotion to preserving this sacred ingredient gives an even deeper meaning to “soul food.” This ingredient offered them strength when their faith felt shaky. It’s time we remember the sacred history of an ingredient that’s become such a staple we almost forgot its power.

We Are All Living Altars. How Do You Adorn Yourself?

We Are All Living Altars. How Do You Adorn Yourself?

Black adornment practices are divine. In a sense, we are all living altars. What do you wear to feel grounded in the Spirit?

Did You Hear That Sound? It Was Likely Spirit

Did You Hear That Sound? It Was Likely Spirit

Spirit can come to us through whispered prayer. Other times, we hear it in the grand cacophony of gospel singing. But sometimes, it comes to us through strange sounds. Have you heard the myth about what it means when your ears ring?

Three Liberation Lessons This Pisces Season Reminds Us To Embrace

Three Liberation Lessons This Pisces Season Reminds Us To Embrace

It’s Pisces season. Even if you aren’t a Pisces and even if astrology isn’t your thing, now’s the perfect time for us all to start making a habit out of these three practices.

The Sacred Spiritual Power Of Storytelling

The Sacred Spiritual Power Of Storytelling

Storytelling has always been a sacred act of resistance. On SuperBowl Sunday, Kendrick Lamar became a modern-day griot in front of an audience of millions. But he wasn’t the only griot on that stage.

Doubting Your Divine Favor? 4 Timely Reminders To Help Reassure You

Doubting Your Divine Favor? 4 Timely Reminders To Help Reassure You

You deserve it all, including a sound mind, body, and spirit, and divine favor. These four timely lines won’t let us forget that our people have always been worthy of liberation.