Cole Arthur Riley - Black Liturgies (N314)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Poet and author Cole Arthur Riley joins us to talk about her desire for a spirituality that was more human and a more liberating expression of faith. This journey led to the emergence of Black Liturgies. From prayers and poetry to breath practices and ancestral writings, this digital project explores spirituality that embraces embodiment, lament, rage and rest. And draws deeply from both contemplation and activism.

Following the interview Tim and Anna reflect on their own evolving faith journey, and ponder what role embodiment, lament, rage and rest might play in it.

Interview starts at 13m 53s

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm your host Tim Nash, and this is my co-host Anna Robinson.
0:42.7	Hello. Thanks for joining me for a chat today, Anna, because it's a very busy time for you,
0:47.3	isn't it? And you've managed to squeeze me in. Yes, it is a busy time, but I really wanted to
0:52.1	get the opportunity to chat about this interview. so I'm really thrilled to be here.
0:56.3	How are you, Anna?
0:57.3	Yeah, I'm all right. I'm a bit stiff, to be honest.
1:00.0	Why?
1:00.4	Well, baseball's out the window.
1:05.6	Tim's always asked me about baseball, which I did once, never went back.
1:08.9	I have played some hockey. Did you know I used to play hockey back in the day?
1:12.6	I did know that. Yeah, I did know that you used to play hockey. A long time ago, I had a career-ending injury. I used to play Premier National League alongside some incredible players who were a lot better than me. But yes, it was a long time ago, 25 years ago, in fact, and I dusted off the old, I don't even actually have the right kit anymore. So I dusted off the really old kit. I have a wooden stick. That's not the thing now. And just went to play with my daughter's joined a local club team who were lovely. So I thought I'd go along and just train with them and help them a little bit because they're a new team and they're young. And so, yeah, so that was really fun because obviously
1:49.0	I can do it. It's all in, you know, the muscle memory, even from, but my body was like, what are you
1:55.6	doing? Oh my goodness. And someone hit me, the ball. I straight went down into the kind of low position that you do in hockey. And oh my goodness, my muscles in my leg and my butt are just absolutely killing me. I'm having to stretch like seven hours a day just to sort of survive. But really fun to play again. But I just have to be careful because I have got a nasty injury in my knee I had a
2:18.7	reconstruction accruciate reconstruction but found out recently that it didn't work properly and I've got
2:23.6	I've got a screw sticking out into the back of my um tendons and ligaments and things um it shouldn't
2:30.1	be there so it swells a lot and gets painful. So anyway, that's me. But great fun.
2:34.8	Yeah. Have you done anything fun recently?
2:38.8	I mean, nothing sort of new or different, but I did get a bit of a lift last night, actually,
2:44.4	because for the first time in two months, I recorded a victory against my snooker buddy.
2:48.8	I went eight weeks without beating him. But last night,
2:51.6	I kicked his ass, Anna, humiliated him. Congratulations, Tim. At one point in the second frame,
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