The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing
The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing
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Overview
In her work as executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, Meeks has fought tirelessly to shed light on racism and provide tools and experiences to enable faith communities to work to combat it. In this new book, she shares highlights and insights from her journey and offers a much-needed meditative guide for the weary and frustrated. By looking inward and at each other clearly, she argues, good people of all backgrounds can forge a long term and individual path to making a difference. With personal stories and thoughtful direction, she takes the listener on the trajectory from self-awareness to recognition of the past to a new and individual way forward.
Meditation topics include how to work through fear and rage, how stories can help heal, honoring your ancestors while looking toward the future, what it really means to love one another, and the meaning of social justice.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9798874860707 |
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Publisher: | Tantor |
Publication date: | 06/25/2024 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry is the Episcopal Church's twenty-seventh presiding bishop. He was the bishop of North Carolina from 2000 to 2015. Bishop Curry has a national preaching and teaching ministry and is a regular on TV and radio and a frequent speaker at conferences around the country.
L. Malaika Cooper is a writer, travel professional, and occasional comic. She is also an avid hiker and yogi and has traveled to more than thirty countries. A journalist by vocation, she has written for major publications. Her short stories have been published in various anthologies, and she is currently working on an urban fantasy trilogy. Cooper has performed improv and is studying dialect and voice acting. A Washington DC native, she presently lives in Houston, Texas.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword Michael B. Curry ix
Preface xiii
Part 1 An Invitation to a New Way to See 1
Meditation 1 Searching for Inner Truth 2
Meditation 2 The Shadow is Galling: Exploring the Inner Community 8
Meditation 3 We Wear Masks 15
Meditation 4 Be Not Afraid 20
Meditation 5 Let's Talk about Rage 24
Meditation 6 Can I Get a Witness? 30
Part 2 Now That I See 35
Meditation 7 Loneliness 36
Meditation 8 What Has to Die? 39
Meditation 9 Courage 43
Meditation 10 Faith and Race 47
Meditation 11 Loss 51
Meditation 12 Can I Walk This Path? 54
Part 3 Unweaving the Web 57
Meditation 13 Facing the Wounds 58
Meditation 14 Racialized Trauma 62
Meditation 15 Look in the Right Place 68
Meditation 16 The Search for Remedies 72
Meditation 17 It is Not Magic 78
Meditation 18 Why Black People Are Still Talking about Race 80
Part 4 What's Love Got to Do with Racial Healing? 85
Meditation 19 What Kind of Love Does It Take? 86
Meditation 20 Whose Love is It, Anyway? 90
Meditation 21 Is There Any Love Here? 92
Meditation 22 Stop Talking Until You Have Love 95
Meditation 23 No Cheap Love, Please 98
Meditation 24 Reimagining Love and Racial Healing 102
Part 5 Going below the Surface and Creating New Space for Healing 105
Meditation 25 No Trespassing 106
Meditation 26 Invisibility Blues 109
Meditation 27 Looking for More than an Ally 112
Meditation 28 Trust 117
Meditation 29 Visibility 121
Meditation 30 Don't Get Too Weary 125
Part 6 Brokenhearted 129
Meditation 31 The System Killed My Little Brother 130
Meditation 32 Can We Have a Word? Victims Want to Be Heard 136
Meditation 33 Reflection on Integration 140
Meditation 34 Killing Fields 144
Meditation 35 Broken Hearts Cure Illusion 149
Meditation 36 The Gift of Being Brokenhearted 152
Part 7 The Outer World Needs You 155
Meditation 37 Let Me Tell a Story That I Like 156
Meditation 38 Quit Worrying about Critical Race Theory 160
Meditation 39 The Media Need to Stop Being Racism's Press Agent 163
Meditation 40 Colorism and Ubuntu 167
Meditation 41 Disappeared Communities: Where Are They Now? 171
Meditation 42 Reclaiming Hope through Remembering 176
Part 8 Since It's a Journey, Stay Ready to Travel 179
Meditation 43 On the Road Again 180
Meditation 44 George Floyd Died, So You Need to Stand Still 183
Meditation 45 COVID-19 Invited Us 187
Meditation 46 Do You Really Want Reparations or Not? 191
Meditation 47 Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired 195
Meditation 48 Our Island Home Needs Us 201
Afterword 207
Notes 209