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Part five of The Sisters of Hagar—“The Brothers & Sisters of Hagar”—reads Leviticus 24 through Acts 7:22 to expose boundary-keeping that denies Nile-Valley roots. Pastor Qadry charges the Black Church to reject colonized preaching, reclaim Ma’atic balance, and let anti-African forms die so a re…

One God. Many Names. One People. is a sermon that reclaims African spiritual legacy within the Christian tradition. Rooted in Psalm 97 and John 17:20–26, the message begins with an ancestral invocation, honoring both remembered and forgotten foreparents who now live among the Orisha—divine reflecti…

In The Sun Rose, So Must We (Genesis 41:45, 50–52, 57), Pastor Qadry reclaims Aseneth, Joseph’s Egyptian wife, as a priestess of Anu and bearer of African cosmic wisdom. While patriarchal traditions reduce her to wife and mother, African memory restores her priesthood and balance. The sermon calls …

In The Witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28:3–25), Pastor Qadry reframes the so-called “witch” as a priestess and healer carrying African wisdom in the tradition of Hagar. The sermon critiques how Saul outlawed mediums yet turned to Endor’s power when desperate, exposing empire’s hypocrisy. Rooted in the pr…