Mar
25
11:30pm
Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body--Lyvonne Briggs in conversation with Nsé Ufot
By Charis Books and More/Charis Circle
Charis welcomes Lyvonne Briggs in conversation with Nsé Ufot for a discussion of Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body. Sensual Faith is an invitation for women to discover a healthier approach to spirituality and sexuality that centers pleasure rather than shame, from body-and sex-positive preacher and author Lyvonne Briggs.
“Home is not an address. Home is where you feel safe. And your body is aching to be your home.”
How you view your body and your sexuality is informed and strengthened by spiritual practices, but how many of us can say that religion has drawn us closer to our bodies? That’s because worship spaces that are intended to be spiritual safe houses have not historically been welcoming to our bodies, forcing us to leave our flesh at the door. This ideological amputation is at best a disservice and at worst a sin. The remedy? Radical self-hospitality.
In Sensual Faith, Lyvonne Briggs charts a path for us to practice spiritual wellness that aligns and harmonizes our bodies with pleasure and sexuality. By centering the rich traditions of ancient West African spirituality, Sensual Faith offers a radically inclusive model of companioning one’s self. Filled with wellness rituals, journal prompts, affirmations, and practices, Sensual Faith shows us how to celebrate our bodies as our very homes.
“Pleasure is your birthright,” writes Briggs, so whether it’s accepting your flesh, nurturing your intuition, learning the language of consent, or sumptuous self-care, let radical self-hospitality guide you to healthy sexuality.
Lyvonne Briggs, MDiv, ThM, an Emmy Award winner, is a body- and sex-positive womanist preacher, speaker, coach, and creator. Briggs is the host of the Sensual Faith podcast and the founder of beautiful scars, a healing-centered storytelling agency focused on fostering pleasure and resiliency; visionary of the Proverbial Experience; and curator of Sensual Faith Sunday, a series of virtual spiritual gatherings to nourish your soul. She has been featured in Essence, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post, and Sojourners named her one of “Eleven Women Shaping the Church.” A New York City native and proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Lyvonne Briggs is currently based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nsé Ufot is the Founder of New South super PAC and founding chief executive officer of the New Georgia Project (NGP). A nonpartisan, civic engagement nonprofit organization started by Leader Stacey Abramsin 2013. Under her leadership, New Georgia Project has helped nearly 700,000 Georgians register to vote. Each year, NGP organizers and volunteers have millions of high quality, face to face conversations with young Georgians, Georgians of color, women and femmes. Their organizing efforts combined with producing popular mobile video games, the bold and aggressive political research agenda she leads, and the smart ways in which they leverage culture and cultural organizing; has lead to a historic increase in voter participation and earned New Georgia Project credit for “flipping Georgia” in the 2020 Presidential elections and helping Georgians elect its first African American and first Jewish United States Senators.
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