Episode 8 - Bishop John Selders

Rev. James interviews Bishop John Selders the Bishop who loves to tell yo’ mama jokes. Bishop Selders is both deep, hilarious, and a huge fan of pop tarts! Listen to this week’s episode as he gives advice on how to make it through the COVID-19 pandemic with your hope in tact along with how he experiences church in a Keenen Ivory Wayans film.

“When we laugh we open up the possibility to be changed and to be different on the other side of the laugh. Again, that is connected to hope and joy and transcendence.”

“The sojourn for black folks living here in the last 400 years ain’t been no cake walk. So there is a resilience that is embedded in surviving generational trauma and struggle and oppression. I will couple this with a universal. Any people’s group has had struggle, oppression and trauma in their sojourns. In order to persevere and get through, you got to find ways both to not take yourself so serious and take the world that serious. Right? For me and my family we teased each other a lot. There was lots of playing the dozens with the skills you learned in the hood. Right? In my time, we called it joning; if you couldn’t jone then you was probably going to be a pitiful cat in the hood. If you didn’t have a couple of ‘yo mama’s’ in your pocket, you wasn’t going make it in the hood.”

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