{"product_id":"pink-robe-chronicles","title":"Pink Robe Chronicles","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePink Robe Chronicles\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWomanist Wisdom for Healing, Liberation, and Love\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelva L. Sampson\u003cbr\u003eBroadleaf Books, 2026\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9798889831891\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 198 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8.6 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor Black women who've grown weary of shrinking back\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pink Robe Chronicles began in a moment of heartbreak. In August 2016, Rev. Dr. Melva L. Sampson wrapped herself in a tattered pink robe, pressed \"Go live\" on Facebook, and preached from her living room--grieving the police killing of Korryn Gaines and the silencing of her own voice in the pulpit. That livestream became a sanctuary. Week after week, she showed up in her robe, offering meditations on justice, healing, and spiritual insurgency. What started as a digital hush harbor grew into a movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, in this powerful new collection of womanist wisdom, Dr. Sampson weaves together sermons, essays, letters, and reflections that center the lived experiences of Black women navigating identity, trauma, joy, and liberation. With fierce honesty and poetic depth, she chronicles her journey from silence to sovereignty, bringing ancestral wisdom, theological insight, and radical love into a sacred space for the weary and the rising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter closes with prompts, meditations, and affirmations that invite us into reflection, healing, and embodied truth-telling. \u003ci\u003eThe Pink Robe Chronicles \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a space to rest, rage, and reimagine. It is a love letter to Black women's brilliance, a call to collective healing, and a reminder that our stories are sacred--and our voices, unchained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRev. Melva L. Sampson, PhD, \u003c\/b\u003eis a preacher, practical theologian, and digital innovator whose groundbreaking ministry, The Pink Robe Chronicles, has created sacred space for healing, imagination, and liberation. An assistant teaching professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, she weaves womanist wisdom, ancestral memory, and Afrofuturist vision into her scholarship and storytelling. Her work bridges the digital hush harbor, embodied spirituality, and communal flourishing, inviting readers into a practice of love, resilience, and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTricia Hersey\u003c\/strong\u003e is a bestselling author, multidisciplinary artist, theologian and community organizer. Tricia is the visionary and founder of The Nap Ministry, the originator of the 'rest as resistance' framework, and creates sacred spaces where the liberatory power of rest can take hold in collaboration with communities all over the world. She is the author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling book \u003cem\u003eRest is Resistance: A Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nap Ministry's Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWe Will Rest!: The Art of Escape\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67744603439418,"sku":"271891","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/2929\/9514\/files\/PinkRobeChronicles.jpg?v=1792523922","url":"https:\/\/edenbookstore.shop\/products\/pink-robe-chronicles","provider":"Eden Seminary Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}