"No Place For Me"

Letters to The Church in America

COMING LATER THIS WEEK on “50 Cent A Word”

A three-part series, titled, “Letters to The Church.” The series features John W. Fountain’s original, uncut essay, “No Place For Me,” first published in the Washington Post in 2005, and subsequently in newspapers across the country. Soul-stirring, critically acclaimed and controversial, it is an honest dissection and exploration of the relevance of the Black church in America by a Pentecostal son of the church now disconnected, disillusioned and distanced from the church he once loved.

This week’s offering features the original essay to be followed by a letter from a prominent pastor written to Fountain in response to his essay, and finally by Fountain’s reply years later, his current reflections and an update now nearly 18 years since writing his original essay and penning his book, “No Place For Me: Letters to The Church in America”