Spirituality & Self Help
- Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
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“Camille Sapara Barton is a gift to all of us. ... This is what emergent strategy looks like at the precipice.”
—adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure ActivismAn embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community—practical exercises, decolonized rituals, and Earth-based medicines for healing and processing loss
We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our grief—deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person’s experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Sapara Barton’s take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss.
Deeply practical and easy to use in times of confusion, trauma, and pain, Tending Grief includes rituals, reflection prompts, and exercises that help us process and metabolize our grief—without bypassing or pushing aside what comes to the fore. Sapara Barton includes exercises that can be done both alone and in community, including:
* Altar practices to honor and connect with ancestors known and unknown
* Locating, holding, and dancing your grief
* Sharing circles for processing communal loss
* Water, fire, and nature-based rituals
* Honoring the survival utility of numbness—and knowing when it’s time to release it
* Peer support and integration
* Herbal medicines and plant-based healingSapara Barton honors each and every experience: The loss of displacement from homelands, from severed lineages and ancestral ways of knowing. The grief of colonization and theft. The deep heaviness that burrows into our bodies when society tells us our bodies are wrong. Practical tools and rituals help readers feel into their grief, honor what comes up, and move forward in healing.
Written specifically to center and hold the grief of BIPOC readers, Tending Grief is an invitation to reconnect to what we’ve lost, to find community in our grief, and to tend to our own suffering for our individual and collective wellbeing.
- Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Ralph Richard Banks
$17.00A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.
Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.
That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry.Is Marriage for White People? is the first book to illuminate the many facets of the African American marriage decline and its implications for American society. The book explains the social and economic forces that have undermined marriage for African Americans and that shape everyone's lives. It distills the best available research to trace the black marriage decline's far reaching consequences, including the disproportionate likelihood of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, single parenthood, same sex relationships, polygamous relationships, and celibacy among black women.
This book centers on the experiences not of men or of the poor but of those black women who have surged ahead, even as black men have fallen behind. Theirs is a story that has not been told. Empirical evidence documents its social significance, but its meaning emerges through stories drawn from the lives of women across the nation. Is Marriage for White People? frames the stark predicament that millions of black women now face: marry down or marry out. At the core of the inquiry is a paradox substantiated by evidence and experience alike: If more black women married white men, then more black men and women would marry each other.
This book not only sits at the intersection of two large and well- established markets-race and marriage-it responds to yearnings that are widespread and deep in American society. The African American marriage decline is a secret in plain view about which people want to know more, intertwining as it does two of the most vexing issues in contemporary society. The fact that the most prominent family in our nation is now an African American couple only intensifies the interest, and the market. A book that entertains as it informs, Is Marriage for White People? will be the definitive guide to one of the most monumental social developments of the past half century.
- Trippy : The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
Trippy : The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
Ernesto Londoño
$18.99A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis.
- NOW IN PAPERBACK WITH NEW ORIGINAL MATERIAL -- Since the initial publication, there will undoubtedly be further decriminalization and therapeutic uses for psychedelics for mental health. We will update book accordingly in new Readers Group Guide material.
- Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Londoño ascended to the top echelons of American journalism at an early age. He covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Washington Post and later joined the New York Times, where he served on the editorial board and as Brazil bureau chief. As a trilingual, bicultural narrator, Londoño writes poignantly about the role of psychedelics in healing his depression and changing his outlook on the intergenerational mental health battles within his own family.
- The therapeutic potential of psychedelics is widely regarded as a potential game changer in mental health treatment. The Food and Drug Administration is widely expected to approve the use of MDMA-assisted therapy in 2024. Two states (Colorado and Oregon) and several cities have recently decriminalized psychedelics as their recreational and therapeutic use grows.
- Takes readers behind the scenes of the first MDMA trial conducted at a Veterans Affairs hospital, which marked the first time the federal government administered psychedelics as an experimental medicine since the 1960s. It also sheds new light on the decades-long quest to use religious freedom laws to expand access to illegal drugs in spiritual settings. Trippy will be the most thorough examination to date of the emerging field of therapeutic psychedelics.
- The book was acquired with both the author and The New York Times, who will promote it heavily through advertising (on site and email newsletters) and earned media. The #1 NYT bestseller THE 1619 PROJECT by Nikole Hannah-Jones was a similar arrangement.
"New York Times correspondent Londoño debuts with an arresting survey of the “medicinal psychedelic field” and where it’s headed...a scrupulous study of a fascinating development in mental health care.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Blending solid research and personal experience, the author points to a new frontier for trauma treatment.”
—Kirkus
“An engaging memoir…Trippy is a fascinating account of the world of medicinal psychedelics.”
—LA Times
“A moving, tender and thoughtful exploration of a complicated subject. If you want to understand psychedelics better, this is a great place to start.”
—Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost Connections
"A compulsively readable romp through a burgeoning scene that has immense potential for both harm and healing."
—Dan Harris, New York Times bestselling author of 10% Happier and host of the Ten Percent Happier podcast (1/7/2025) - Take Your Seat at the Table Study Guide
Take Your Seat at the Table Study Guide
Anthony O'Neal
$29.99Use this tool to take ownership of your life and become the person God created you to be.
In Take Your Seat at the Table Study Guide, bestselling author and podcaster Anthony O'Neal provides you with practical tools and guidance if you want to take the message of Take Your Seat at the Table to the next level in your own life.
Designed to be used in conjunction with Take Your Seat at the Table, this Study Guide is perfect for individuals, small groups, and churches seeking to:
* Become empowered to make the best financial, career, health, emotional, and relational decisions
* Identify the keys to fostering strong relationships with friends and family, build a "work tribe” that will help you achieve your goals
* Develop a vision for thriving in every phase of life
* Discover an eternal quality of life filled with meaning, true abundance (including financial freedom), and joyThe Take Your Seat at the Table Study Guide equips you to take charge and step into the life God wants you to live. Just about every significant decision, conversation, prayer, celebration, or affirmation takes place around the table--are you ready to take a seat at the head of your own table?
- Remain in His Love: 90 Devotions to Help You Dig Deep and Draw Closer to God (A 90-Day Devotional)
Remain in His Love: 90 Devotions to Help You Dig Deep and Draw Closer to God (A 90-Day Devotional)
Jackie Greene
$27.99Come on a 90-day journey with pastor, Bible teacher, and author Dr. Jackie Greene as she encourages you to dig deep into His Word and discover and enjoy a love that never ends.
Do life's challenges and distractions prevent you from developing or maintaining a deep, consistent, intimate relationship with the Father? Dr. Jackie Greene has been there but love--God's love--changed everything for her, and it can change everything for you too. When Dr. Jackie finally learned to surrender, receive God's love, and spend time in daily devotion with Him, resting in His love, she discovered a life-transforming revelation: His love remains consistent and unfailing despite her mistakes and flaws.
By digging into His Word and spending time with Him, you can develop and enjoy a flourishing, reliable connection and a love that never ends. In this 90-day devotional, you will
* develop a daily habit of spending time with God and drawing into lasting fellowship;
* experience healing in your areas of brokenness;
* become anchored in your role as God's daughter; and
* discover your true worth and the joy of abiding in His love!Give yourself a priceless gift and spend the next ninety days experiencing intimacy with God through Scripture, prayer prompts, and devotional messages and gain the life-transforming revelation of the love of God and what it means to live loved and cherished.
- I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back from Getting Everything You Want
I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back from Getting Everything You Want
Pinky Cole
$29.99Pinky Cole—founder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegan—takes you back to your moments that seemed hopeless to help you discover how filled with possibility they really were.
We've all been told we can't do it. That we're not enough. That we grew up in the wrong neighborhood or had the wrong parents or made the wrong choices. That we can't be anything but a failure. . .What they don't tell you is that every obstacle and mess-up in your life has only prepared you for success.
Pinky has spent her life dreaming of financial security. After a fire destroyed the New York City restaurant she put everything into building, she was back to square one, working hard for someone else's dream. Her life has been a series of lessons that have given her the tools to build a business that drew the attention of some of the world's top investors.
In I Hope You Fail, Pinky tells her own story to empower you in yours. She'll share her ten counter-intuitive hopes for you, including:
* I hope you don't believe in yourself. . .because the journey to discovering who you truly are is the key to unlocking the life you want.
* I hope you don't get that raise. . .because money doesn't equal respect, but it can show you how much you are truly valued at work.
* I hope the customers don't show up. . .so you can have the feedback you need to reevaluate your approach and find one that works.Filled with practical advice and motivational gut-punches, I Hope You Fail will teach you how to learn from your WTF moments and find fuel in your losses.
- Million Dollar Action: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making Wealth Happen
Million Dollar Action: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making Wealth Happen
Rachel Rodgers
$22.99In We Should All Be Millionaires, Rachel Rodgers—Black woman, mother of four kids, and self-made millionaire—shared her personal story of how she climbed from crushing debt and financial stress to wealth and abundance, running a multi-million-dollar company.
Her book inspired thousands of readers to construct a new attitude about money, claim their power, and build the financial security that we all need and deserve. Now comes the companion guide to help take that attitude and turn it into action.
This one-of-a-kind guide:
* Summarizes the most important concepts from We Should All Be Millionaires in a brief, succinct way, so these concepts stick firmly in your mind.
* Shifts the focus from “knowing” to “doing,” by giving you small action steps that you can start taking immediately.
* Provides checklists so that you can complete steps, tick things off as you go along, and track your progress.The goal for completing this workbook is to help all readers develop a new attitude about money, get more cash flowing into their bank account, and realize more emotional riches, too: hope, peace, power, and joy.
- Breaking the Patterns That Break You: Healing from the Pain of Your Past and Finding Real Hope That Lasts
Breaking the Patterns That Break You: Healing from the Pain of Your Past and Finding Real Hope That Lasts
Tori Hope Petersen
$19.99Experience lasting healing and real hope as you learn to break free of destructive patterns in your life.
At some point everyone finds themselves wondering…
Why do I keep falling into the same patterns that leave me feeling broken?
Will I ever move past the pain and experience healing?
Is there something wrong with me?In Breaking the Patterns That Break You, bestselling author Tori Hope Petersen shares the profound ways she finally found relief and healing from the pain of her past, and how you can too. Tori gently shows you why it's important to recognize the destructive personal, relational, and generational patterns in your life so you can finally find freedom. As Tori weaves together vulnerable storytelling, therapeutic insights, and biblical teaching, you will feel as though she's sitting across from you, holding your hands, and inviting you into a journey that changed her life and can change yours. You will learn how to:
* Identify and disempower destructive cycles
* Dismantle codependent tendencies in order to gain and maintain healthy relationships
* Feel less alone in your inevitable human brokenness
* Rebuild a truer perspective of selfBreaking the Patterns That Break You will give you the hope and tools you need to get unstuck and find healing that lasts. If you are willing to do the hard work, it's possible to break the patterns that have broken you and see yourself for who you truly are—good, safe, and loved.
- Incantations Embodied: Rituals for Empowerment, Reclamation, and Resistance
Incantations Embodied: Rituals for Empowerment, Reclamation, and Resistance
Kimberly Rodriguez
$16.99Kimberly Rodriguez, a first-generation Xicana Indigena artist, poet, and activist, invites readers on a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment through her book, Incantations Embodied: Rituals for empowerment, reclamation, and resistance, serving as a catalyst for reclaiming our stories, truth, and power.
In Incantations Embodied: Rituals for Empowerment, Reclamation, and Resistance, author Kimberly Rodriuguez takes readers on a profound and transformative journey towards self-discovery and empowerment. Within its pages lies a poignant exploration of the human experience, interwoven with elements of spirituality, healing, and personal growth.
At its core, Incantations Embodied serves as a triumphant homecoming—a return to the essence of one's being. It invites readers to embark on a sacred journey, emboldening them to embrace their true selves with unwavering honesty and compassion.
Through Rodriguez's captivating stories, enlightening prose, and enchanting rituals, this book becomes a powerful catalyst for reclaiming our stories, our bodies, our identities, our voices, and ultimately, our power.
In a world where societal norms and expectations often stifle individuality and self-expression, Incantations Embodied stands as a resounding call to break free from these chains. It seeks to dismantle the oppressive narrative that has been ingrained in our collective consciousness, urging us to question and challenge the colonized structures that have kept us disconnected from our own truth.
The book serves as a powerful guide for self-realization, urging individuals to transcend their limitations and embrace their innate potential. With each turn of the page, a profound shift occurs—a blossoming of self-awareness, strength, and resilience.
"Incantations are our liberation. With the power of words, we become conjurers, bringing our wildest dreams to life." - Kimberly Rodriguez
- Care Package: Harnessing the Power of Self-Compassion to Heal & Thrive
Care Package: Harnessing the Power of Self-Compassion to Heal & Thrive
by Sylvester McNutt, III
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Have shame, guilt, or codependency seemingly become insurmountable hurdles in your life? Do you struggle with forgiveness, setting boundaries, and putting yourself first? Are negative self-talk and people-pleasing tendencies preventing you from feeling fulfilled?
Sylvester McNutt III, life coach and host of the Free Your Energy podcast, shares the stories of his own traumas and challenges to reveal the lessons he’s learned to overcome obstacles and truly thrive.
To help guide you down your own path of healing, Sylvester provides:- Strategies for managing stress, setting boundaries, and cultivating healthy habits
- Practical tactics for processing childhood trauma and being present as an adult
- Tools to move beyond the feelings of pain that are holding you back
- Inspiring advice that will urge you to keep moving forward
Healing from pain is not easy, but it is possible. With Sylvester’s guidance, you will find the inspiration to release, to forgive, to vibrate higher, and to practice self-care every single day. - The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color
The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color
by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez
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This groundbreaking work illuminates the phenomena of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color, and provides a much-needed path to reclaiming health and wholeness despite the heavy burden of systemic, intergenerational, and attachment trauma resulting from racism in our country. Readers of color will find affirmation of their experience of C-PTSD from both a social justice and psychological lens, and learn techniques for reclaiming wholeness.
It’s time to heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit.
If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma—such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence—you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and keeping close relationships. Sometimes you may feel very alone in your pain. But you are not alone. This groundbreaking work illuminates the phenomena of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color, and provides a much-needed path to health and wholeness.
In The Pain We Carry, you’ll find powerful tools to help you understand and begin healing from repeated trauma. You’ll discover ways to feel safer in your body, build self-compassion and resilience, and reclaim your health and wellness by reconnecting with your sense of self and your ancestral wisdom. You’ll learn how trauma is connected to grief, how it can affect both the mind and the body, and how it can persist from one generation to the next. Most importantly, you’ll find the validation you need to begin mending your heart, and the skills you need to live a life of intention—even in the midst of an oppressive system.
It’s time to find relief from the trauma and burdens you have been carrying and start celebrating and rediscovering who you are. With this guide, you will uncover your own strength in order to work toward healing C-PTSD within the external constraints you face to live a life of resilience, empowerment, reflection, and perseverance.
- Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free
Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free
by Sabia Wade
$28.99*ships in 7-10 business days
Birthing Liberation presents reproductive justice as the pathway to equity and the birthplace of liberation.
Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator, speaks to the intersections of systemic issues—such as access to health care, house transportation, and nutrition—and personal trauma work that, if healed, have the power to lead us to collective liberation in all facets of life.
Collective liberation rests on the idea that in order for us all to have equity in this world—from the safety of childbirth, to the ability to bring a baby home to a safe community, to having access to resources, safety, and opportunities over the long term—we must all become liberated individuals.
Birthing Liberation creates a path to social and systemic change, starting within the birthing world and expanding far beyond. - Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
by Tracey E. Hucks
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Tracey E. Hucks traces the history of the repression of Obeah practitioners in colonial Trinidad.
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume I, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of “obeah.” A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifying African witchcraft. These preoccupations revealed the fears that bound whites to one another. At the same time, persons accused of obeah sought legal vindication and marshaled their own spiritual and medicinal technologies to fortify the cultural heritages, religious identities, and life systems of African-diasporic communities in Trinidad. - Color-Courageous Discipleship: Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community
Color-Courageous Discipleship: Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community
by Michelle T. Sanchez
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Discover a Christ-centered approach to antiracism that will empower you to be transformed as you transform your world.
Michelle Sanchez has discovered through her own journey that it’s impossible to separate racial discipleship from our relationship with God. In fact, deeper racial discipleship catalyzes a deeper relationship with God. Whenever we choose to courageously resist racism, we will discover new opportunities to encounter Christ in fresh and exciting ways.
Color-Courageous Discipleship is our guidebook to a deeper connection with God through the adventure of racial discipleship. Grounded in the gospel, this practical and thought-provoking book:- Reveals multiple ways that the racial dynamics of our society have already formed us—and what we can do about it.
- Explores what it means to biblically and proactively address racial inequity for the sake of God’s glory.
- Equips us to engage in challenging conversations about racial reconciliation with grace and truth.
- Offers hope, creative answers, and a way forward both individually and as a beloved community.
Sprinkled throughout, enjoy interviews with color-courageous disciples like Eugene Cho, Efrem Smith, Sheila Wise Rowe, Esau McCauley, Michael Emerson, Daniel Hill, and more. Learn how to engage your everyday spiritual practices in ways that will both strengthen your witness and revitalize your faith.
Whatever your race or background, Color-Courageous Discipleship invites you to experience more of Jesus as you courageously pursue racial righteousness. - Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity
Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity
by Charles Price
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Illuminates how the Rastafari movement managed to evolve in the face of severe biases
Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, their political and religious significance minimized. But they have not been vanquished.
Charles Price’s Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity reclaims the rich history of this relatively new world religion. Charting its humble and rebellious roots in Jamaica’s backcountry in the late nineteenth century to the present day, Price explains how Jamaicans’ obsession with the Rastafari wavered from campaigns of violence to appeasement and cooptation. Indeed, he argues that the Rastafari as a political, religious, and cultural movement survived the biases and violence they faced through their race consciousness and uncanny ability to ride the waves of anti-colonialism and Black Power.
This social movement traveled throughout the Caribbean, Africa, Central America, and the United States, capturing the heart and imagination of much of the African diaspora. Rastafari spans the movement’s struggle for autonomy, its multiple campaigns for repatriation to Africa, and its leading role in the Black consciousness movements of the twentieth century. Not satisfied with simply narrating the past, Rastafari also takes on the challenges of gender equality and the commodification of Rastafari culture in the twenty-first century without abandoning its message of equality and empowering the downpressed.
Rastafari shows how this cultural and political context helped to shape the development of a Black collective identity, demonstrating how Rastafarians confronted society-wide ridicule and oppression and emerged prouder and more united, steadfast in their conviction that they were a chosen people. - Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation
Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation
by Rima Vesely-Flad
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Explores how Black Buddhist Teachers and Practitioners interpret Western Buddhism in unique spiritual and communal ways
In Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition, Rima Vesely-Flad examines the distinctive features of Black-identifying Buddhist practitioners, arguing that Black Buddhists interpret Buddhist teachings in ways that are congruent with Black radical thought. Indeed, the volume makes the case that given their experiences with racism—both in the larger society and also within largely white-oriented Buddhist organizations—Black cultural frameworks are necessary for illuminating the Buddha’s wisdom.
Drawing on interviews with forty Black Buddhist teachers and practitioners, Vesely-Flad argues that Buddhist teachings, through their focus on healing intergenerational trauma, provide a vitally important foundation for achieving Black liberation. She shows that Buddhist teachings as practiced by Black Americans emphasize different aspects of the religion than do those in white convert Buddhist communities, focusing more on devotional practices to ancestors and community uplift.
The book includes discussions of the Black Power movement, the Black feminist movement, and the Black prophetic tradition. It also offers a nuanced discussion of how the Black body, which has historically been reviled, is claimed as a vehicle for liberation. In so doing, the book explores how the experiences of non-binary, gender non-conforming, and transgender practitioners of African descent are validated within the tradition. The book also uplifts the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer Black Buddhists. This unique volume shows the importance of Black Buddhist teachers’ insights into Buddhist wisdom, and how they align Buddhism with Black radical teachings, helping to pull Buddhism away from dominant white cultural norms. - Creole Religions of the Caribbean, Third Edition: An Introduction
Creole Religions of the Caribbean, Third Edition: An Introduction
by Margarite Fernández Olmos & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
$30.00An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region
Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the overlapping religions that have developed as a result of the creolization process. Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. From Vodou, Santería, Regla de Palo, the Abakuá Secret Society, and Obeah to Quimbois and Espiritismo, the volume traces the historical–cultural origins of the major Creole religions, as well as the newer traditions such as Rastafari.
This third edition updates the scholarship by featuring new critical approaches that have been brought to bear on the study of religion, such as queer studies, environmental studies, and diasporic studies. The third edition also expands the regional considerations of the diaspora to the US Latinx communities that are influenced by Creole spiritual practices, taking into account the increased significance of material culture?art, music, literature, and healing practices influenced by Creole religions. - Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Guide to Excellence
Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Guide to Excellence
by William R. Harvey
$17.99*Ships in 7-10 business days*
From the esteemed President of Hampton University, an insider account that reveals the secret to HBCU graduates’ remarkable success—a distinguished honor roll which includes Vice President Kamala Harris, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ruth Carter, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and many others.
In his more-than-four-decade tenure as the President of Hampton University—one of 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in America—Dr. William R. Harvey has been a champion of the cultural impact and value of HBCUs, demonstrated by the achievements of their numerous notable alumni. Their success is no coincidence. It is the result of a faultless formula that sets HBCUs apart and helps their students thrive—a formula built on core tenets, including displaying moral and wholesome values at all times, continuously pursuing character growth, and embracing communal responsibilities whenever possible.
The mission of Dr. Harvey is to represent Blackness to its highest degree at every opportunity. He is a passionate believer in the remarkability of the Black diaspora in all its complexity and beauty. That conviction drives the timeless lessons he’s adhered to and has instilled in his students: the power of dress to establish respect; the importance of integrity; financial accountability; reverence for elders. It is these tried-and-true lessons and others that have uniquely prepared and propelled HBCU students to success for generations.
The Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Guide to Excellence is a thoughtful and knowledgeable account of what it truly takes to successfully navigate a white world as a Black person while retaining one’s core Blackness. Practical and proven, it lays the groundwork for individual and communal Black prosperity.
- Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God: Voddie Baucham Jr.
Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God: Voddie Baucham Jr.
$19.99More teens are turning away from the faith than ever before: it is estimated that 75 to 88 percent of Christian teens walk away from Christianity by the end of their freshman year of college. Something must be done.
Family Driven Faith equips Christian parents with the tools they need to raise children biblically in a post-Christian, antifamily society. Voddie Baucham, who with his wife has overcome a multigenerational legacy of broken and dysfunctional homes, shows that God has not left us alone in raising godly children.
This bold book is an urgent call to parents―and the church―to return to biblical discipleship in and through the home. This paperback edition includes a new preface and a study guide to facilitate interaction in small-group settings and to help parents put principles into practice.
- Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out
Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out
$0.00Juanita called it "The Crash."
Her counselor labeled it "a major depressive episode." Others called it a nervous breakdown. On the spiritual front, it was a dark night of the soul.
This experience landed Juanita, a busy pastor, mother, and community leader, in bed. When everything in her life finally came to a stop, she found that she had to learn to be―with herself and with God―all over again.
If you are longing for a trustworthy companion through your dark days, this book is here for you. Each chapter includes life-giving spiritual practices to help you discover your own new ways of being.
- The Signs: The New Science of How to Trust Your Instincts
The Signs: The New Science of How to Trust Your Instincts
Dr. Tara Swart MD PhD
$26.99The neuroscientist, medical doctor, and powerhouse author of The Source shares the lost art of listening to your intuition and allowing the signs around you to guide the way to achieving the life of your dreams.
"This is more than a book, it’s a healing experience." — Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of On Purpose Podcast
Have you ever thought of someone just before they called? Or experienced a coincidence that felt too unlikely to be true?
It’s all too easy to dismiss synchronicities or signs like these as chance. But what if they weren’t? And what if, by learning to tune into them, you could access a guiding wisdom that would help you overcome challenges and cultivate personal growth?
In this groundbreaking book, world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart explains how. Bringing together breathtaking real-life stories with teachings from cognitive psychology, near-death experiences, and much more, she’ll show you how to:
* Tap into your most important decision-making tool: your intuition.
* Break free from the distractions and stress of modern life and focus on what matters most.
* Shift your mindset from fixed thinking to openness and wonder, so you can see life’s limitless possibilities.With compelling theories about the nature of consciousness, and transformative tools to create a deep connection with the signs around you, let this book empower you to trust your instincts and thrive like never before.
- PRE-ORDER: Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman's Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
PRE-ORDER: Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman's Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Tara Pringle Jefferson
$28.00PRE-ORDER: ON SALE DATE: December 2, 2025
A self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates the roots of self-care and community care as a sustaining force for generations of Black women. Bloom How You Must is a love letter to the millions of Black women who want a less stressful life but don’t know where to begin.
Self-care isn’t a trend among Black women; it has always been a throughline in our heritage. Consider Coretta Scott King, who along with fellow activists Betty Shabazz and Myrlie Evers-Williams, would enjoy “girls’ trips” to take a break from the stress of the Civil Rights Movement. Remember their contemporary Rosa Parks attended (and led) yoga classes while on the front lines for Black rights in Detroit.
Think of the enduring friendship between Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King, a sisterhood in which they have leaned on each other for nearly forty years while thriving in the glaring media and entertainment spotlight.
Picture Toni Morrison’s overflowing gardens and lush houseplants she tended while writing classics like Beloved and The Bluest Eye.
Recall Audre Lord’s enduring declaration written after her second cancer diagnosis: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Bloom How You Must explores and expands on this self-care legacy and shows how it can help every Black woman today.
Tara Pringle Jefferson excavates the roots of self-care and community care as a sustaining force for generations of Black women and transforms her findings into a blueprint women can follow in their daily lives. A blend of guidebook and journal, Bloom How You Must explores several distinct pillars of wellness, featuring:
* Research from leading wellness experts
* Interviews with women aged 19–99
* Stories of personal experience
* Overviews and explanations of each component of self-care
* Dedicated pages for readers to reflect on each chapter
* Exercises to put wellness into practice
* Easy-to-follow explanatory graphics and sidebarsWith its diversity of insights,practical skills and multigenerational focus, Bloom How You Must is a love letter to the millions of Black women who want a less stressful life but don’t know where to begin. Bloom How You Must gives them the tools they need to improve their health and their daily lives.
- It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told)
It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told)
Dr. Karen Tang
$19.99An inclusive and essential new resource for reproductive health―including period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing―from leading expert and fierce advocate Dr. Karen Tang
"Dr. Karen Tang is a literal godsend to women in a time still filled with great ignorance in medical research and financing of women's health initiatives. Please read her book, follow her on Instagram as I have, and feel blessed as I do to have an advocate for our body, our health, and our human rights." ―Sharon Stone
Did you know that up to 90% of women experience menstrual abnormalities or pelvic issues in their lifetime? Yet these conditions are overwhelmingly misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed. The root causes for these issues, such as PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, PMDD, or pelvic floor dysfunction, don’t receive the stream of funding for research and new treatments that other conditions do, despite affecting up to half the population.
Dr. Karen Tang is on a mission to transform how we engage with our bodies and our healthcare. It’s Not Hysteria is a comprehensive guide to common conditions and potential treatment options, with practical tools such as symptom prompts and sample questions for your provider, to equip readers to take control of their gynecologic health.
Reproductive healthcare, from abortion to gender-affirming care, is under siege. The onus continues to fall on patients to find and advocate for the care they need. In the face of uncertainty and misinformation, It’s Not Hysteria is destined to become a new classic that educates and empowers women and those assigned female at birth.
- Stronger in the Difficult Places: Heal Your Relationship with Yourself by Untangling Complex Shame
Stronger in the Difficult Places: Heal Your Relationship with Yourself by Untangling Complex Shame
Dr. Zoe Shaw
$26.00An empowering invitation to leave complex shame behind, forgive yourself, and live free from the burden of secrecy—by a clinical psychologist with an inspiring personal story.
“With the empathy and kindness of a loving best friend, Dr. Zoe Shaw helps us not only address our complex shame but also untangle it so that it no longer binds us.”—Elayne Fluker, executive coach and author of Get Over “I Got It”
Do you ever feel like your past is holding you hostage? As if the mistakes you’ve made, the pain you’ve endured, or the burdens you carry are too heavy to release?
You’re not alone.
In Stronger in the Difficult Places, Dr. Zoe Shaw opens her heart and her expertise to guide you through the healing process. Offering unflinching honesty but compassionate care, Dr. Zoe shares her own journey of breaking free from complex shame. For years, she believed her past defined her—until she realized she had the power to rewrite the narrative. Now she’s inviting you to do the same.
With wisdom rooted in psychology, science, and faith, Dr. Zoe helps you untangle the stories shame has written over your life so you can embrace freedom. Through personal reflection and practical tools, you will learn how to
• recognize and name your shame story, understanding how it has shaped your self-worth
• break free from false narratives that keep you playing small and doubting your value
• set healthy emotional and relational boundaries that protect your peace
• forgive yourself and embrace self-compassion without guilt or hesitation
• rewrite your future with strength, resilience, and a sense of unshakable worthYou don’t have to live weighed down by your past. Let Dr. Zoe sit with you in your struggles, walk with you through your story, and show you how Stronger in the Difficult Places can be your road map to healing, self-acceptance, and the freedom to live fully as the person you were always meant to be.
- 30 Days to Crush Chaos: A Devotional for Finding Peace
30 Days to Crush Chaos: A Devotional for Finding Peace
Manny Arango
$18.00In this 30-day devotional that aligns with the book Crushing Chaos, respected pastor and Bible nerd Manny Arango charts the theme of chaos in the Bible, empowering readers to establish order in their chaotic lives.
Ready to deepen your trust in God, grow your confidence in His plans for you, and establish order in every area of your life? This thirty-day devotional is your starting place, packed with scriptures, thoughtful insights, reflection questions, journal prompts, and uplifting prayers to make your month-long journey to peace one marked by hope, clarity, and direction.
As you travel from Genesis to the Gospels and back to the Garden, the discoveries along the way will take you from the wilderness of chaos to the radical freedom that Jesus died and rose to accomplish—and to a fresh beginning where order is restored, peace prevails, and new mercies reign.
- RPRE-ORDER: Richer on Purpose: 7 Surprisingly Simple Steps to Creating Wealth on Your Own Terms
RPRE-ORDER: Richer on Purpose: 7 Surprisingly Simple Steps to Creating Wealth on Your Own Terms
Vanessa Adekoya
$25.00PRE-ORDER: ON SALE DATE: December 8, 2025
A powerful and proven path for women to create financial freedom and discover greater purpose from popular financial strategist and educator with modern economic insights and Scriptural truths.
Many of us stay too long in jobs we hate simply because we need the money. And yet there's a tested way you can achieving financial independence while doing work you truly care about.
Combining economic expertise, spiritual insights, and prompts for understanding your skillset more truly, financial strategiest Adekoya encourages you to break free from traditional income models and find the unique way God has gifted you to approach work.
Learn how to:
* Quit your corporate job without going broke
* Find flexible and unique income generating strategies
* Discover your God-given vocational niche
* Identify your strategic offerings
* Distinguish your target audience
* And create value in ways that lead to influence, impact, and incomeYour future is bright. Experience both financial freedom, emotional and mental peace, and the joy of doing work you really love when you join the new wealthy.
- PRE-ORDER: Dear Cycle Breaker: Wisdom and Practical Magic for Reclaiming the Wild Divine Feminine
PRE-ORDER: Dear Cycle Breaker: Wisdom and Practical Magic for Reclaiming the Wild Divine Feminine
Dusah Wiseman
$18.99PRE-ORDER: ON SALE DATE: December 2, 2025
Transformational rituals and channeled messages for unlocking your true potential, healing through the divine feminine, and making the everyday sacred.
The practices and channeled messages within this book support you in going deep within your shadows to unlock the potent medicine of combining your light and dark, reclaiming your inner magic, and unmasking the true potential of your wild, wise, and whole self. When you reconnect with the divine feminine and tap into the ancient wisdom of the powerful women who came before you, you become a walking embodiment of love, magic, compassion, and power.
Writes Dusah, "My divine mission is to be a guiding light for those who are ready to unmask their true power and potential. This is the book that would have saved me from repetitive unwanted cycles. It is a beacon that will resurrect the Goddess who has been playing small for reasons that span previous lifetimes. It will empower the Queen who is finally ready to claim her legacy."
Peel back the layers covering up your true greatness: the lies, the past experiences, the trauma, the masks that your family or society has forced you to don. This is your initiation into a divine co-creation with Spirit—a pathway back to your highest self and a deep connection with Source.
- PRE-ORDER: The Five Blessings of Ifá: Reclaiming Black Futures Through Afro-Indigenous Spirituality
PRE-ORDER: The Five Blessings of Ifá: Reclaiming Black Futures Through Afro-Indigenous Spirituality
Gabrielle Felder
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A fierce and inspirational guide to Black resistance, resilience, and healing, using the principles of Afro-Indigenous spiritual practices
Understanding where you came from is crucial to understand where you are going.
The Five Blessings of Ifá explores how Black communities across the diaspora draw strength from ancestral wisdom, family, community care, and mutual aid, using the principles of Ifá—a West African spiritual tradition—as a guiding framework. Gabrielle Felder provides a blueprint for living a more fulfilled and abundant life through the blessings of Aiku (longevity), Aje (wealth), Aya and Oko (relationships), Omo (children), and Isegun (victory over negative forces), providing practical examples of how Black folks have built resilience and learned to thrive in the face of oppression.
* Longevity exists in ancestral traditions that we cultivate over generations, which Felder explores through practices of traditional herbalism as well as contemporary sustainability and food sovereignty movements.
* Wealth, in Felder’s interpretation, has to do with the richness created by community, including cultural traditions of food, dance, and music that connect seemingly disparate African diasporic cultures.
* Partnership, traditionally understood in Ifá as husband and wife, is reconsidered by Felder to include a wide variety of relationship structures, including familial bonds and queer families.
* To explore the blessing of children, Felder dives into the important history of doulas and midwives in Black communities, and their crucial role in combatting the high maternal mortality rate among Black women in the US.
* Finally, Felder draws out the meanings of the blessing of victory through a wide range of examples of Black autonomy: slave rebellions; the rejection of Euro-centric beauty standards; mutual aid practices among Black revolutionary groups; and the contemporary Black witch movement.As a collective, Black folks have managed to usher in the five blessings of Ifá into our lives despite all odds. This book is a love letter to those who have come before us, and a guide to the possibilities that lie in our collective future.
- Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times
Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times
Rev. Otis Moss III
$17.99A “deeply spiritual and socially radical” (Dr. Obery Hendricks, PhD) guide to uplift our spirits as we work for justice in these politically turbulent times—from Reverend Otis Moss, III, Senior Pastor at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ and one of the country’s most renowned and beloved spiritual and civil rights leaders.
Once again, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first observed in the 1960s, it is midnight in America—a dark time of division and anxiety, with threats of violence looming in the shadows. In 2008, the Trinity United Church in Chicago received threats when one of its parishioners, Senator Barack Obama, ran for president. “We’re going to kill you” rang in Reverend Otis Moss’s ears when he suddenly heard a noise in the middle of the night. He grabbed a baseball bat to confront the intruder in his home. When he opened the door to his daughter’s room, he found that the source of the noise was his own little girl, dancing. She was simply practicing for her ballet recital.
At that moment, Pastor Moss saw that the real intruder was within him. Caught in a cycle of worry and anger, he had allowed the darkness inside. But seeing his daughter evoked Pslam 30: “You have turned my mourning into dancing.” He set out to write the sermon that became this inspiring and transformative book.
Dancing in the Darkness is a “life-affirming” (Dr. Teresa L. Fry Brown) guide to the practical, political, and spiritual challenges of our day. Drawing on the teachings of Dr. King, Howard Thurman, sacred scripture, southern wisdom, global spiritual traditions, Black culture, and his own personal experiences, Dr. Moss instructs you on how to practice spiritual resistance by combining justice and love. This collection helps us tap into the spiritual reserves we all possess but too often overlook, so we can slay our personal demons, confront our civic challenges, and reach our highest goals.
- PRE-ORDER: A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships (Quick & Easy Guides)
PRE-ORDER: A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships (Quick & Easy Guides)
Mariah-Rose Marie
$9.99PRE-ORDER: ON SALE DATE: December 2, 2025
It can be difficult to navigate a lifetime’s worth of relationship patterns to clearly see the best ways to treat the folks we care about—and be treated well in return.
In A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships, Mariah-Rose Marie offers a cheery, articulate, and fun-to-read guide to navigating, recognizing, and reenforcing positive patterns in friendships, romances, families, and work connections, all while taking care of your own head and heart in the process. From tips for engaging in difficult conversations, advice on communicating boundaries, and resources for strengthening bonds, this guide can help you make your relationships stronger and healthier than ever.
The latest volume of the critically acclaimed, bestselling A Quick & Easy Guide series of educational comics.
- How to Work with Complicated People: Strategies for Effective Collaboration with (Nearly) Anyone
How to Work with Complicated People: Strategies for Effective Collaboration with (Nearly) Anyone
Ryan Leak
Sold outBestselling author and transformational speaker Ryan Leak shares research-based strategies for working with even the most challenging people to create more collaborative and productive teams.
Who is the most complicated person you work with?
You probably don’t have to think very hard to answer that question. You already know their name, their job title, their quirks, and their flaws. You have firsthand experience with the mental and emotional fallout they leave in their wake. You’ve seen the problems their complexity creates for everyone on their team. You wish you could fix them, solve them, ignore them, or teleport them to a parallel dimension.
But you can’t.
You have to work with them.
(You could quit, but your next job will have a complicated person waiting for you.)
That means you need effective strategies to collaborate with (nearly) anyone. Especially the picky, prickly, problematic ones.
Drawing from his global consulting experience with teams and leaders from the glitz of sports and entertainment, to the number-crunching world of finance, to the meticulous realms of insurance, pharma, and manufacturing, Ryan Leak provides proven strategies for…
* Seeing challenging individuals as human beings to understand rather than problems to solve
* Detoxing unrealistic expectations and getting comfortable with complicated
* Learning to communicate effectively in complex environments
* Embracing healthy disagreement as a tool to discover better solutions
* Setting boundaries that let people into your world without letting them run your world“The process of learning to collaborate with difficult individuals is transformative—it’s a gateway to greater creativity, stronger teams, and increased productivity,” Leak explains. “On the other side of complicated is the wonderful, wide-open world of effective collaboration and a workplace you love.”
- Rupi Kaur's Writing Prompts Relationships
Rupi Kaur's Writing Prompts Relationships
Rupi Kaur
$25.00Rupi Kaur's Writing Prompts Relationships card deck is an invitation to dive deeper into the core of your most cherished relationships.
Rupi Kaur encourages you to build more honest and fulfilling relationships with help from this thoughtfully curated deck of 70 writing prompts. While focusing on the theme of relationships, use this card deck as a part of your daily ritual to inspire connection and creativity.
Examples of the prompts include:
* How do you want to receive and give love in a romantic relationship?
* Describe a time you let jealousy get the best of you.
* How did your family influence your definition of love?
* How would you end a toxic friendship?We hope it becomes a tool for you to continue discovering more about your inner and outer worlds, and a light to help navigate you through it all.
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