From the Editor: December 2021

Cole Arthur Riley's @BlackLiturgies offers ‘food for hungry souls.’
Illustration of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and her quote, "Access to a dark night sky - to see and be inspired by the universe as it really is - should be a human right, not a luxury for the chosen few."
Theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, and author of The Disordered Cosmos Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / Illustration by Hazel P Mason

JEANIA REE V. MOORE, a Sojourners columnist since 2019 who’s working on her doctorate at Yale, explains why she thinks Cole Arthur Riley’s @BlackLiturgies, featured in this issue, is so important, especially now: “At a time when social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic precluded most forms of Christian liturgy and threatened to make permanent the temporary church closures,” Moore writes, “Riley traversed the digital divide and rerouted traditional channels for spiritual expression.”

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