So there’s this Hoodoo practice where you write down the name of an adversary on a paper and place the paper in your right shoe, symbolizing your dominance over them as you walk on them (represented by the paper with name written on it)

I present to you this COGIC clip:

FACTS!!!!! Mind you it never clicked until right now.

SideNote: Bishop Blake was the Bishop for my jurisdiction 😂😂😂😂😂.

Same. Even while I grew up with one side of my family branch having that believe and the other being with the “woo woo,” both sides did things like string peppers on thread and put it on the door to “keep the devil away”

That was Hoodoo. We were practicing it without naming it as such.

Funny you say that because I heard the reason we were practicing without a name is due to slavery/ racism. So we had to hide it in plain sight. However, somewhere down the line we lost the plot.

Also, blowing cinnamon in your house on the first of the month for prosperity. ( I do this one) LOL

And here’s my hot take: many, a lot of church kids, especially from the South, have grown up in/adjacent to Hoodoo.

I question if theelders even used the word “Hoodoo” to describe what they did traditionally, which was passed on to us.

I wish we considered historical context more in these convos.

Tbh I don’t think they did. Personally I grew up believing hoodoo was wrong and witchcraft (No disrespect). But being grown and researching and was waiting for a dam minute

Yes sir! Tap in. For me, this is the “work” part of “faith without work is dead”

As a Hoodoo, my practice, my spiritual work, is the actionable component of my faith.

I got you bro.

I need to put in more work.

I don’t believe the Black expression of Christianity, especially among us charismatics, is exclusively Christian. We tarry for the Holy Ghost the same way practitioners of African/Diasporic traditional religions chant to invoke an Orisia, Lwa/Loa, etc.

Yes. Our Founder and Chief Apostle *quickens*

I don’t have a solid answer on that. I hear on one hand that he use roots as representational tools to aide his teaching/preaching. Well, in Hoodoo (which I was brought up around too), many things, if not all, have dual meanings, often deep/spiritual

BROOOOOO I’m thinking the same… there are to many similarities in the COGIC/ Hoodoo religions for it all to be a coincidence.

I gotta learn how to tap into that power

You just can’t join in, you’ve got to be born in *quickens*

Hey! What’s up?!

Yoooo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that “Born in” part gave me a flash back… LMAOOOO

But, Do you know who Charles Mason is? And do you believe he was a root worker/ conjour man ?

Thank you sir

Welcome bro

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They took down the site I’m looking for it again….

They took down the site… I’m looking for it again