The Pink Robe Chronicles

"In a time when I have become increasingly disillusioned with the pastors of this world, Sampson remains one of the few spiritual guides I trust. Poetic and clear, she invites us into the journey of her own reclamation of voice, body, and mind. This book will expand your imagination for the divine and train you to encounter again your own face. From the moment I opened it, I understood with an urgency: These pages are sacred ground." --Cole Arthur Riley, New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh



"The Pink Robe Chronicles is a womanist archive of truth-telling, memory, and spiritual insurgency. This work adds vital language to our canon of dreaming as a Black, womanist technology of resistance. Dr. Melva Sampsons Afrofuturist Altar Calls are grounded in lived theology, ancestral intelligence, and ethical imagination. She can summon liberated futures because she has faithfully chronicled the work required to build them. A sacred offering of witness, sanctuary, and becoming whole in public." --ebonyjanice Moore, author of All the Black Girls Are Activists



"Some books find their way into our lives, and it is clear that the ancestors and the generations yet to come conspired to get them to us. They knew that those pages contained whatever we needed in order to be whole and well for the journey ahead. The Pink Robe Chronicles is one such book, and I stand in awe of the healing that will come as a result of it being in this world." --Candice Marie Benbow, author of Red Lip Theology



"When Melva Sampson showed up online in her pink robe, you got her--unfiltered, unbossed, defiant, vulnerable, righteously angry, and healing--in real time. These live digital reflections formed a community because in speaking for herself, she voiced what so many others felt. Reading The Pink Robe Chronicles immerses you in the middle of Melva Sampsons stories without feeling like you missed anything. Youll read it in one sitting because youll need the next insight now, but youll keep pulling the book off your shelf for the poems, meditations, and reflections. Full of honesty and heart, The Pink Robe Chronicles is poised to be a new womanist classic." --Monica A. Coleman, PhD, author of Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology and Bipolar Faith: A Black Womans Journey with Depression and Faith



"This sacred dialectic narrative examines questions of revolutionary Black girlhood and womanist formation in a world that seeks to silence, surveil, erase, and shame Black girls and women. Merging womanist analysis with storytelling, Sampson speaks us into wholeness by insisting on bodily autonomy, spiritual agency, radical truth, remembering, sacred audacity, and righteous rage. The Pink Robe Chronicles is a necessary political technology of defiance and sacred reckoning that will move readers from scarcity to audacious possibility." --Tamura Lomax, PhD, author of Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering



"The Pink Robe Chronicles is a beautiful expression of womanist theology for the twenty-first century. With vision, passion, and deep love, Melva Sampson weaves together wisdom born of struggle, faith forged in community, and a prophetic commitment to healing and liberation. The Pink Robe Chronicles is theology at its best--a sanctuary to imagine a new world and cultivate a new humanity shaped by justice, renewed by tenderness, and open to the transformative power of ancestral faith." --Corey D. B. Walker, PhD, dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity, and Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities