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WATCH | 2025 Nathaniel Colver Lecture with Cole Arthur Riley

On April 25th 2025 the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Baptist Theological Union, and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion hosted the 2025 Nathaniel Colver lecture featuring Cole Arthur Riley. Riley is the author of the New York Times bestsellers This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us and Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and The Washington Post. Riley is also the creator and writer of Black Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body. This event is funded by the Nathaniel Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund.

May 1, 2025

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