Tag: Rose
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In the Name of the Father 22: Servant
Servant walks into the desert, and he feels tired. He feels weak and empty. He has been fasting for three days and he is exhausted. He did this for all of us. He did this because we asked him to. He did this because it is in his nature to serve. He walks for what…
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In the Name of the Father 20: Guardian
As Guardian walks the desert, he feels the sun. He is hungry and he drops the bottle of Fighting Cock in his hand. It lands tip down and in moments, all the bourbon has drained into the sand. He stumbles on sobbing. In the distance he sees an object and turns his feet in that…
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In the Name of the Father 18: Sasquatch Part 7
Wanna see it fall? Wanna see everything that Harmony built, everything that Brother Faith, Brother Justice, Brother Hoss, Rose, and Unity Church gave Adam crumble to the ground at his feet and burn to ash? In order to understand the true issue between Adam’s fall from God, we have to get one last gift from…
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In the Name of the Father 15: The Fall of Harmony Baptist Church
I’m not sure how much longer it could have gone on. Brother Haste’s home was obviously an unhappy one. He had fought a war against his daughter for wanting to marry a black man. He scoured the Bible, looking for any passage that might make it a sin for her to marry who she loved.…
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In the Name of the Father 10: Harmony Part 2
As I grew, the men of the church respected me more and more. Rose was in a hurry to tell me every time word got back to her about how they felt or how they thought about me. Brother Justice took me and Nozzle to a car show once. He had a vintage automobile and…
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In the Name of the Father 9: Sasquatch Part 3
Does the Lord delight in my work? The question came to me after a talk with Sasquatch. See, my work is dark. I wrote Chaste and was told by a reviewer that it was evil. She told me she and her husband did not want a Jesse Teller book ever sent to them again. There…
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In the Name of the Father 7: Harmony Part 1
I had never felt anything like it before. I don’t even think it was the sermon that brought me out of my seat in the pew and forward to the pastor’s call. It was the way I had felt since I walked in the building. I had been told to shake all the men’s hands…
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In the Name of the Father 6: Camelot Part 2
“The last order of business today is, should we allow Jesse Teller to leave Harmony?” Pastor Haste said. A grumble dropped like a pattering of rain on the crowd at the Wednesday night Business Meeting as the motion hit the floor. Servant sat in the back of the church, looking with a deep sadness and…
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In the Name of the Father 5: The Rise of Rose
I said a cuss word and my mother slapped me. This is not unnormal. Mothers have been slapping cursing kids for as long as there have been mothers, cursing, and kids, but this time she did it with a snarl. “How dare you use that language in my house!” she snapped. She lifted her fist…
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In the Name of the Father 2: Man of God
“This mutha fucker right here.” Servant pointed at the holiest man he ever knew in front of the entire congregation of Harmony Baptist Church, and no one gasped. No one stood up and yelled him down. He is the most devout of us all. Servant is a saved Christian doing God’s work. Watch very carefully,…
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