I've been feeling lost, but First Friday Open Mic at the First Baptist church in JP, really revitalizes my soul. My pain is left outside the church doors and I enter a sanctum of safety, love, and community. There's lots of rad spoken word, people, and food.
Everyone is accepted at this church, regardless of race, beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, and more,
First Fridays are an open space. Poets preach about Ferguson, Feminism, Friendship, being of color, being queer, love, sex and more.
They are Anti sexism, racism, heterosexism, cisgenderism and other shitty things.
All in all, its just a beautiful space.
People sometimes use their beliefs to shun people, and hate others, for no good reason.
My God loves everyone. My love is my faith. I don't want to choose. I won't choose.
I invited my peeps, Julyn and Stevie, who haven't been feeling the faith lately, and brought them to the open mic so they could check it out.
Afterwards, I asked them a couple questions about the experience.
The church sounds like a wonderful place in general. I never heard of a church like the one you described here (it is the first time that I have heard of this). However, I sounds like you needed this for the last few days,since you didn't feel well the past few days. I am happy you had a good time none-the-less. The video was insightful and silly funny :) (full of giggles)
ReplyDeleteBut i only have one complaint-after watching the videos-it was hard to comment for some reason because when i was typing it was not letting me finish typing but controlling the video even after i paused. :(
Yeah it really helped :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could come with next time
I'm sorry about that, damn technology!