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Welcome home, cojourners. I'm glad you're here for another episode.

I'm Dr. Tema, licensed psychologist, ordained minister and sacred artists, here to help facilitate your journey back home to yourself.

And on today, we have a very, very special guest.

Since we switched to video format, it is the first

gentleman to join us on the podcast, none other than my father, as should be the appropriate

person, Bishop John Richard Bryant. Welcome, Dad. Thank you. It's good to be in with you.

I'm a trailblazer in many are trailblazer in many ways.

Well, I want to give you all some background about my father.

He is the son of the late Bishop Harrison James Bryant and Edith Holland Bryant.

He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a graduate of Baltimore City College High School.

He also is a graduate of Morgan State University in his hometown.

After college, Bishop Bryant joined the Peace Corps and served as a volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, from 1965 to 1967. He earned his Master's of Theology in 1970,

three years before I was born, from Boston University School of Theology, and a doctor

of ministry degree in 1975 from Colgate Rochester Divinity School. He has many honorary degrees from various schools

at universities, and he also has led the movement of really revitalizing the Pentecostal

movement in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He has 103 men and women.

Is that right? Children in the ministry. I kept saying 100. It's more than, all right,

103, men and women who have entered Christian ministry under his pastoral leadership.

He pastored three churches in Massachusetts and in Baltimore, Maryland. And it is from the church in Baltimore, Maryland, where I grew up, Bethlehem E.m. Church, where he was elected in 1988 as the 106th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He served in the 14th District,

which is West Africa, where he presided over 101 churches and 25 schools. He also served in the 10th

district, in the 5th district, in the 4th District.

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