Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
We had so much goodness in our conversations around the idea of sabbath as resistance that we decided to release them as separate episodes. In this episode, Ruth and guest Cole Arthur Riley continue the discussion with a conversation around whether or not sabbath is just for the privileged few. Cole shares how she experiences rest in honor of her ancestors who were not allowed to do so, and the two discuss the tender places sabbath can take us.
Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the author of the NYT bestseller, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and The Washington Post. Cole is also the creator and writer of Black
Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body.
Mentioned in this episode:
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Music Credit:
Kingdom Come by Aaron Niequist
Tender Moment from Transforming Center Resource Music in Solitude
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