![]() Parker, and this is CODE SWITCH, the show about race and identity from NPR. But 10 years ago, when I was in college, I started to question everything. I went door-knocking to spread the word of God. When I was in high school, I was baptized and received the Holy Ghost. Sometimes, he'd even let me take a sip from his coffee. I still have a scar on my left knee from when I tripped and fell during a game of tag in the church parking lot, and I can still taste the empanada plantano - a Salvadoran sweet dessert dusted with sugar my dad would buy me from the salon social - the church cafeteria. So many of my childhood pictures are of me with a toothless grin against the brick walls of my Pentecostal church in Houston, Texas. I was raised Pentecostal in the South, and it was a huge part of my identity. ![]() And I mean pray, pray.ĪLVARENGA: I'd been preparing for the rapture since before I knew how to read. JESS ALVARENGA: By the time I was 16, I knew how to pray. A heads-up before we get started - this episode contains explicit language, sexual content and psychedelics.
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