They stand in the church vestibule in Saint-Michel or Côte-des-Neiges, eyes closed, hands raised, belting out hymns as if the louder they sing the closer God gets. The organ swells, the choir sways, the altar call comes like clockwork. Perf
Christians no longer worship God. They worship a place - and they have convinced themselves the two are the same thing. Walk into any lively evangelical or Pentecostal service in Montreal’s Haitian neighborhoods - Saint-Michel, Côte-des-Nei
Let’s be brutally honest, no sugar-coating, no Sunday-morning smile. God is not the problem. Religion - the system, the building, the schedule, the collection plate, the unspoken rules - very often is. In Quebec, where the church once ruled
As a Haitian living in Quebec, I’ve seen it up close my whole life. Churches packed every Sunday, prayer groups running late into the night, tithes collected with urgency, and the constant refrain: “Bondye ap fè yon mirak” - God will make a