Episode 4 Extras
Episode 4: You Gotta Have Faith-Part 1
Our faith has gotten us through some of the lowest points in life and has taken us to the highest heights. So, there’s no shame in our game that Genesis to Revelation (the first & last books of the Bible) was a 12-yr journey.
Since I mentioned how my faith originated as a child in Jamaica, I was able to find these amazing photos of the actual church, and connected school, both still a central part of the community. Going to church was a part of our school day. Pretty drab until some visiting nuns played guitars during mass! Holy Mother of God! That was the talk of the town for a good while.
Here is where I wrote my lessons on a slate (yup, like Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. Notebooks were for the next class up) jumped rope - we called it ‘skipping rope’ - played tag - we called it “last lick” (lick=hit) under the watchful eyes of the Catholic nuns who ran the school; rulers in hand was all the warning we needed to manage to play without injury on the cement ground. The compound seemed immense back then but little did I know, my next home would be Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn where my bestie-to-be, Leslie, was getting her quarter from her grandmother for candy before heading to church.
Leslie, on right, her mother
and siblings
looking
stylish on a Sunday morning
Concord Baptist Church of Christ, in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, was founded in 1847 by the Black abolitionist Pastor Sampson White. Generations of Leslie’s family worshipped there.
Listen and laugh with us in the full episode on our faith origins and our long-standing unconventional Bible Study.