The collective pain that many communities are experiencing in the wake of George Floyd’s killing and Derek Chauvin’s trial for committing it provides a chance to reveal and give honor to the place and function of religion, faith, and the church in Black communities.

Today Corregan Brown will join Bathabile to talk about what the Black church has meant to Black folk in times of trouble, historically and in the present day. Corregan is a technologist, blogger, and an occasional musician, poet, and pundit. He writes about race, politics, faith, and current events.

He grew up at the edges of the Black church, spent some time in Reformed Calvinist theology, and now makes his way down a rocky path that occasionally shows signs pointing toward Jesus.