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Why Sensuality Is One Of Our Most Sacred Energies

Why Sensuality Is One Of Our Most Sacred Energies

There’s a difference between sexuality and sensuality. It’s our God-given right to exercise both. While sex can be transcendent, sensuality is a sacred energy. The practice of sensual faith reminds us we can exercise our pleasure bodies and still know God.

Not Everyone Is Worthy To Be Invited To Your Spiritual BBQ

Not Everyone Is Worthy To Be Invited To Your Spiritual BBQ

What’s your favorite kind of ritual? Some prefer community rituals. Others enjoy being alone with God. While there’s no right or wrong, there’s a difference between public and private rituals. You deserve spaces for solitude and for community and not everyone deserves access.

How Your Very Presence Might Make Someone Brave

How Your Very Presence Might Make Someone Brave

Keeping the faith is always easier in community. Your very presence might be the thing that uplifts someone to be brave. Martin Luther King Jr often needed such uplifting. On August 28, 1963, when the eyes of the nation were upon him, this dear friend urged him to keep the faith.

The Undeniable Power Of Black Women

The Undeniable Power Of Black Women

Dear Black woman, no matter what the world says about you, never forget you are worthy of love and respect. Since the beginning of civilization, you have ruled, taught, fought, and healed. Life wouldn’t exist without you, and the future is doomed if you aren’t in it.

How Anger Can Be A Source Of Healing And Freedom

How Anger Can Be A Source Of Healing And Freedom

Have you ever been so angry that you wanted to rage? Fight? Cry? While the world loves to tell us to be calm, meditate, and just breathe, the truth is that our anger can be healing. It can serve to help us learn more about ourselves and, of course, tell our truths. Just ask this angry Black woman.

What If ‘Spilling The Tea’ Was A Sacred Community Gathering?

What If ‘Spilling The Tea’ Was A Sacred Community Gathering?

What daily ritual uplifts your spirit? In Senegal, tea time is that ritual. The Senegalese people make tea time a sacred ritual for community gathering. What would our world look like if we all took time to gather in community each day?

Why Whooping Is Our Most Sacred Act Of Resistance

Why Whooping Is Our Most Sacred Act Of Resistance

Whooping. A celebratory form of preaching Black Pentecostal pastors use to end a sermon and segue into a song. You’ll know real whooping when you hear it. A shiver might pass through you, or your hair may stand on end. That’s a sign Spirit has entered the room.

Speaking In Tongues Is A Form Of Black Resistance

Speaking In Tongues Is A Form Of Black Resistance

Before we seek liberation elsewhere, we must first look within ourselves. Liberation lives in our thoughts, prayers, and words. This prayer practice allows for liberation to drip from our tongues as we speak our prayers into existence. Speaking in tongues is a form of Black resistance.

The Undeniable Role Salt And Water Play In Our Spirituality

The Undeniable Role Salt And Water Play In Our Spirituality

We all deserve protection and healing. Salt and water, together and separately, have played an essential role in spiritual practices in Black cultures worldwide, and the benefits are incredible.

How Will You Honor Their Magic Within You?

How Will You Honor Their Magic Within You?

The power to conjure revolution lives within each of us; this power has been passed down to us by strong Black women. How will you honor their magic in you?

How Practicing Our Values Can Inspire Change In Others

How Practicing Our Values Can Inspire Change In Others

What are your core values? Like faith, our values are shaped by how willing we are to surrender to Spirit. This comedian turned Civil Rights activist surrendered, realigned his values, and in doing so, filled the stomachs, minds, and spirits of beloved Civil Rights activists.

Healing Is Not Meant To Be Done Alone

Healing Is Not Meant To Be Done Alone

Grieving is not meant to be done alone. Our bodies keep the score. How do we shake off our rage, pain, and fear? Simple. We call our community to come dance it out. She reminds us of this whenever she dances on a loved one's grave.

This Church Was A House Of Worship And Resistance

This Church Was A House Of Worship And Resistance

We all deserve faith communities that center our resistance and Black liberation efforts. Founded in 1773, this church did just that. But to be a site of resistance, its congregation had to keep a huge secret.

The Little-Known Role Beer Plays In Black Spirituality

The Little-Known Role Beer Plays In Black Spirituality

We all deserve to be remembered. Traditional African spirituality used beer to honor the lives of loved ones who passed on. And even though many think pouring out beer is something only done by rappers and gangs today, the connection is much more spiritual.

We’re Not Always Happy And That’s Okay

We’re Not Always Happy And That’s Okay

You deserve to be happy, but you also deserve to have the space and the time not to be happy as well. Positive vibes only and don’t worry be happy sound great, but they aren’t always realistic. It’s time to have a serious look at happiness.

Why “Amazing Grace” Is One Of Our Most Sacred Hymns

Why “Amazing Grace” Is One Of Our Most Sacred Hymns

Do you remember the last time you experienced grace? Take a moment and cherish that memory. Amazing Grace. One of the most iconic “Black” hymns. It’s a testimony of God’s grace, which our ancestors have sung for over a century. Here is a timeline of how the hymn has uplifted our people.

His Legacy Reminds Us To Walk With God

His Legacy Reminds Us To Walk With God

God is with us everywhere we go, but walking with God is an intentional choice. One man chose to walk with God every day of his life. His story reminds us that taking the path to liberation and sticking with it is a choice.

This Black Congregation Is Older Than The United States

This Black Congregation Is Older Than The United States

The community he founded in 1773 is still going strong. Like him, we have the power to build strong, supportive spiritual communities both inside and outside of the church.

Difference Between Being God-Fearing And Being Scared Of God

Difference Between Being God-Fearing And Being Scared Of God

Are you God-fearing? There is a BIG difference between being God-fearing and being scared of God. Being God-fearing means being in awe of God. Here’s why leaning into our holy fear is liberating.

This Threat To Black Romantic Love Needs Our Attention

This Threat To Black Romantic Love Needs Our Attention

Navigating romantic relationships can be challenging whether you’re happily single, married, or looking for love. For Black relationships, in particular, there’s one thing to keep an eye out for that can harm even the strongest of bonds.

How To Pass on Generational Joy, Not Trauma

How To Pass on Generational Joy, Not Trauma

You’ve probably familiar with talk of generational trauma – where hurt keeps getting passed down through generations. But what about generational joy? We all deserve the good things our past has to offer. Surely if pain is passed down, then joy is, too, right?

How To Manage Disappointment With Power And Grace

How To Manage Disappointment With Power And Grace

Being let down is never easy. The hurt, confusion, and anger from the experience are a lot for us to carry. We all deserve to feel supported, but what happens when those around us are afraid or won’t listen to us when we need them? And how do we respond when we have always had their back?

Why It’s Spiritually Important To Stay Thirsty

Why It’s Spiritually Important To Stay Thirsty

We all deserve to be poured into, so why would God ever want us to thirst? Surprisingly, being thirsty is one of the biggest ways we learn spiritual discipline. And discipline is the step right before devotion.

One Incredibly Powerful Way To Show Love

One Incredibly Powerful Way To Show Love

How do you show love? Even if you don’t think about the ways you show up for other people or even when your daily duties or job requires you to help others, the impact can be enormous. Love is powerful, and to activate it we need only to do one simple thing.

The Most Popular Word In The Bible And The Lesson To Learn From It

The Most Popular Word In The Bible And The Lesson To Learn From It

Throughout the bible, water appears as a metaphor for God’s divine will. Water has continuously guided us towards liberation. To appreciate water is to know God. God’s divine waters live in all of us.