I read Toni Morrison’s Paradise as a vision of worldmaking through black maternal religious practice. Employing character analysis, I trace how material and somatic practices are religious actions of coming into voice, or as I argue, processes of self-regard. I argue that in Paradise, regard emerges as a central fulcrum of transformation. I read Morrison’s own writings on self-regard alongside political theorist Wairimu Njoya to theorize how regard more broadly, and self-regard specifically emerge as religious practice of attunement, care, and attention. Finally, I (re)turn to Morrison’s initial address thirty-one years ago, and the ways in which her plenary took root. I place womanist ethicist Katie G. Cannon’s reflections on Morrison’s address in conversation with the practice of regard. Black women’s reproductive labor is one of the sites of ultimate religious reflection; a place where questions of justice, right relationship, possibility, harm, evil, accountability, desire and agency are enfleshed.