It’s Sunday morning and the faithful have gathered. Today my oldest son is in Mississippi on a work project with a group from his church. Here at Hometown Friends Church we are singing “Soon and Very Soon” the way white people sing it—bland, unemotional, inhibited. It’s the best we can do. Black Gospel is not our native tongue and no amount of clapping will help us look any less like posers. We will never do well with songs like this, but I guess there’s no harm in trying.