A Pimp In The Pulpit: God ain't sleep

A charity play stages the odd couple romance between Stewart, an influential pastor of a southern black church, and Lynn, a college professor and women’s rights activist. Their relationship seems over before it started when Stewart’s bitter ex-girlfriend, Bianca, lands the play’s lead role. In addition, Stewart gets consumed battling trustees bent on ousting him. Lynn doesn’t make things any easier on Stewart as she unearths his past relationships and refuses to tone down her feminism in the century old church that still bars women from the pulpit. Lynn’s scriptural perspective enrages one church leader in particular, a bigoted, philanderer who utilizes abuse and control over women to obstruct Lynn. Relationships long in tact are tested the moment Stewart and Lynn take up their romance. In all, six fully fleshed characters are pitted against one another with such emotional force, their conflict triggers acts of extreme faith, vengeance, heroism, vanity, and sacrifice – spilled over canvases of gender, tradition, and the matriculation of the word of God. Life, for Stewart and Lynn, may have been simpler apart, but they are uncontrollably driven towards each other, for reasons even they struggle to comprehend as they stare down jarring consequences.