Melissa Williams Melissa Williams

Why Do So Many Black Christians Reject Hoodoo—When It’s in Our Roots?

It made me wonder: Why do so many Black Christians reject practices like Hoodoo, when those same practices live in the bones of our history and sometimes in the very rituals of the church? Is it because the blending was so subtle, so seamless, that later generations didn’t realize what we held onto?

That question sent me down a path that felt less like research and more like remembering.

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