Founder & Pastor Emeritus, First Community Church of the Nazarene

“Your treatment of the topic was erudite and yet not dismissive. It gave proper historical and theological context without the scholarly freight that could turn off the ordinary man in the street.”

President Emeritus, Mercy University

“American Christianity sometimes behaves as though it were the central current of historical Christianity. Freedom Weekes‘ book reminds us that Christianity is far older than America, older even than Europe. Before it reached Rome it had taken root in Africa, and Black Americans should be proud to see themselves in the earliest faces of our shared faith in Jesus Christ and among the earliest leaders of that faith.”