Starlight Cathedral

This is the revised review; I attended a service there last Sunday.
It’s a tiny church — tiny congregation, building that won’t seat much more than sixty or seventy, and the pastor is also the church organist and choir leader (the choir consists of the congregation’s children).
This is a black Spiritualist church of the kind you read about in Jason Berry’s _​The Spirit of Blackhawk._ The pastor’s wife has a title — First Lady — and she and the pastor work under the leadership of the Archbishop and his wife, the Queen Mother — who founded the church. They are not the pastor’s parents, as I thought at first. The Archbishop’s and Queen Mother’s portraits are painted on the wall of the church behind the main altar, which has room not only for Jesus but also for Mary and several candles. There are side altars with St. Francis of Assisi and other saints.
The sermon was mostly generous and warm — the pastor repeatedly referred to the congregation as «brothers of Jesus» and redefined brainwashing as being «washed clean of pessimism.»
Toward the end of the service, the pastor invites the congregation to come up for individual blessings. Each is accompanied by prophecy and advice — before he got to me, I assumed the pastor knew each parishioner intimately, but after he gave equally relevant advice to me, a total stranger, I began to wonder. For one of the parishioners, he actually prescribed candles to burn — yes, just like you can get in a botanica or pagan-​supply shop (and now you know where the pagans learned how to do it).
If you’re looking for a church that recognizes real psychic-​spiritual gifts and has plenty of Pentecostal zap, this might be the place.