I love my skin. I love my body. I love my brilliance. I love me. Self-love is about celebrating oneself.

How can that be done in the midst of the busyness and challenges of life? Faith Matters Network is proud to present our second annual Womanist Wisdom series focused on Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas’ third tenet of womanism: redemptive self-love. The series asks the question, how can I love myself, regardless? Gleaning from our diverse group of beloved wisdom-keepers provides the opportunity to renew our commitment to loving ourselves.

Our second session in this series features Emmy Award winner & body-and sex-positive womanist preacher, speaker, coach, and creator, Lyvonne Briggs. For far too long, colonized religion has conditioned us to be at war with our bodies and we deserve so much more. Join us for an exciting conversation moderated by FMN's Ristina Gooden. Together we'll explore how Black women can reclaim our bodies and desire, shed religious and cultural sexual shame, and recover our birthrights of love, rest, and pleasure.

Lyvonne Briggs is a body- and sex-positive womanist preacher and speaker. She is the host of Sensual Faith Podcast and the author of Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body (Convergent/Penguin Random House out March '23). She is the co-host of Sanctified, a faith-based, Spotify-exclusive podcast on Jemele Hill’s Unbothered Network. A spiritual life coach and TEDx speaker, she has been featured in Essence, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post, and Sojourners named her one of "11 Women Shaping the Church.” Briggs is a graduate of The Lawrenceville School, Seton Hall University, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary. A New York City native, she is currently based in New Orleans, LA and you can follow her across platforms: @LyvonneBriggs

Your ticket purchase of more than $15 will go towards sponsoring our 2024 Womanist Wisdom Scholarship.

"Sensual Faith" w/ Lyvonne Briggs