My Faith

Y.O.

YOU MAY KNOW ME AS ISSA RAE’S BEST friend Molly on HBO’s Insecure. But what you may not know is that the journey to get there was entirely faith-led. Nothing about the six-year-old girl who emigrated from Nigeria to America and was supposed to become a doctor pointed anywhere to comedy. That, you see, was God’s idea. I was raised Catholic, so God was always a part of my life. But as a freshman in college, I attended a Bible study that completely changed everything. I know that the last thing you associate with freshman year of college is Scripture. But the minister kept referring to God as “Daddy.” Who calls God Daddy? But I’m also really competitive, and I wanted that level of intimacy with the Father. So I said yes…

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Glamour (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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