Opening Unto Mystery: A Conversation with Dr. Elyse Ambrose
January 18, 2022
Elyse Ambrose, Ph.D. (they/them) is a blackqueer ethicist, creative, and educator, whose research, art and community praxis lie at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and spirituality. Ambrose’s forthcoming book, A Living Archive: Embodying a Black Queer Ethics (T&T Clark, Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics series) centers blackqueerness in constructing communal-based sexual ethics. Ambrose currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethical Leadership and Society at Meadville Lombard Theological School as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.
You can find out more about them at elyseambrose.com
In this episode I sit down with blackqueer ethicist, creative, and author, Dr. Elyse Ambrose to discuss mysticism’s role in the everydayness of life. They name mysticism as “an openness to mystery… an orientation to life.”
Dr. Ambrose explores the transformative power of truth-telling and the ways in which we mirror one another, naming the ways in which we avoid the difficulty of transformation "in the interest of preserving our comfort.”
Dr. Ambrose describes contemplation as a "listening with one’s whole self. That’s attunement through the body, attunement through previous experiences, and being able to integrate all of that.”
Bio:
Bio:
Elyse Ambrose, Ph.D. (they/them) is a blackqueer ethicist, creative, and educator, whose research, art and community praxis lie at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and spirituality. Ambrose’s forthcoming book, A Living Archive: Embodying a Black Queer Ethics (T&T Clark, Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics series) centers blackqueerness in constructing communal-based sexual ethics. Ambrose currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethical Leadership and Society at Meadville Lombard Theological School as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.
You can find out more about them at elyseambrose.com