Speaker Series: The Sacred Black Feminine

About the presentation: Our sociological imagination is deeply connected to our spiritual imagination and vice versa. When we have been conditioned by a society that elevates and centers whiteness and maleness, we tend to elevate and center whiteness and maleness in our spiritual lives as well. But the Sacred Black Feminine — a Black-and-female iteration of the divine that is deeply rooted in ancient Christianity's Black Madonna — calls us onto a more liberating path that affirms and honors the sacredness of Black people, women, and non-binary people, and indeed ALL people. Join social psychologist and public theologian Dr. Christena Cleveland as she vividly describes her transformative, 400-mile walking pilgrimage across central France in search of centuries-old Black Madonna icons, and discover how the Sacred Black Feminine longs to transform you as well.  In person only

About the speaker: Christena Cleveland, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and…