Aubra Love Reading and Book Signing

Local author and pastor Aubra Love presents her new book, Our Lactating God: The Embodied Amen.

In her most recent published work, Our Lactating God, Love hosts a sacred gathering in which we are each invited to remember and rejoice: we are made in the image of God! The book is a transformative disclosure of the author’s remarkable faith journey through oppressive public policy, while honoring the sacred body/mind/spirit connection.

Our Lactating God: The Embodied Amen is a deeply personal meditation on the everyday work of loving upon the embodied image of God within ourselves. As her central theme, pastor and author Rev. Aubra Love uplifts Isaiah’s image of the God who nurses and nurtures us: “Can a mother forget her suckling child?” (Isaiah 49:15)

Embodied as Black and female, Southern and working class, Aubra Love knows the violence of discrimination and the pain of rejection—and she knows the necessity of nurturing the body and claiming life’s joys. Our Lactating God is her testimony, witnessing to a God who does not forget or abandon us, a God who drips with the milk of life for us, a God who comes through in mysterious ways.

A free reading and booksigning with Aubra Love takes place Sunday, August 10, 2025 from 1-2 p.m. at Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood Street in Asheville. Registration is required to reserve your seat. There will not be a virtual attendance option. To register, please go to www.malaprops.com/node/61259.

This event includes a book signing. If you would like a signed book but can’t attend in person, you may order a signed copy from Malaprop’s. If you would like to have your book personalized, use the comments field to provide a name for personalization, e.g. “To Carla.”

Aubra Love is an author, educator, public theologian, pastor and preacher, gardener, ethicist, and grandmother. She is a lifelong movement worker and daughter of the Civil Rights Movement foot soldiers, dedicated to literacy action and Black voter registration in the southeastern states of North America.

A retired commercial banker and nonprofit executive, Rev. Love is committed to community wellbeing and inclusivity. Love is the founder of The Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute, Inc., a national educational ministry. She is an ordained minister whose standing is held in the Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ, where she completed a term as Acting Associate Conference Minister of the Potomac and Chesapeake Associations.

Rev. Love is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and the Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA.