Book Talk: The Black Madonna with Christena Cleveland
Featured Book
The Black Madonna
Meet Black Madonna—Mother of Abundance, Holy Insurrectionist, Our Lady of F Around and Find Out This bold reclamation of the divine feminine offers a new vision of Black Madonna as a unifying figure of refuge, resistance, and renewal. When we are exhausted and burned out, Black Madonna invites us to surrender to her protective embrace and be revitalized by her subversive life force. When disillusionment takes hold, Black Madonna offers radical belonging—urging us to reclaim our own sacred power.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
Public theologian Christena Cleveland will be discussing her newest book, The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance & Nourisher of Souls!
Featured Author
Christena Cleveland
Christena Cleveland expertly blends personal experiences, global stories, and historical records to reveal the cunning colonial forces that poison our social and spiritual landscape, while illuminating our Divine Ancestor as an endless source of spiritual nourishment, liberation, and protection. Intimate invocations and empowering rituals within each chapter help you to nurture your own authentic connection with Black Madonna and feel her loving guidance through the twists and turns of life. This book is a call to mystic-activism—for all of us who are alert to injustice and fervently devoted to co-creating a world of love.
About the Venue
Call & Response Books
Call & Response is a Black woman-owned bookstore based in the Hyde Park / Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago that centers writings and experiences of Black people and other people of color. We offer literature for readers of all ages and provide regular events and programming for community members.
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