{"id":36297,"date":"2024-05-31T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=36297"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:27:52","slug":"bridgerton-star-adjoa-andoh-embraces-her-christian-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/05\/bridgerton-star-adjoa-andoh-embraces-her-christian-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bridgerton&#8217; Star Adjoa Andoh Embraces Her Christian Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36372\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/05\/Adjoa-Andoh-bidgerton_credit-Netflix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36372\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/05\/Adjoa-Andoh-bidgerton_credit-Netflix-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBridgerton\u201d star Adjoa Andoh recently discussed the importance of the role faith has played in her life and how the church has always been her \u201cgo-to space.\u201d Andoh explained, sharing that her parents even met through her mother\u2019s vicar, \u201cFaith was big in my mother\u2019s family.\u201d The actress attended her village\u2019s chapel and church, saying, \u201cI was the kid that went three times on a Sunday, did the flower arranging and went to Bible class in the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As she got older, Andoh stopped going to church as regularly but \u201cwould always go to church on high days and holidays, wherever I was.\u201d She explained, \u201cIt\u2019s a place of peace, and I think a late teenager\/early 20s person needs peace. It would always be my go-to space; that never changed.\u201d Andoh started attending church regularly again when her eldest daughter started going to a church school. She said, \u201cI was just coming home, really. I just needed the shove. And that\u2019s been my church ever since. I got married there. My daughter got married there. I became a reader in 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7Asc25KpjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7Asc25KpjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Adjoa Andoh (@adjoa.andoh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of her sermons is even available on YouTube, where she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zN6WgQ47I4A\">reminded<\/a>\u00a0viewers that \u201cwe are family. God\u2019s family. Our faith is in a God of redemption and justice and love.\u201d Andoh\u2019s children are equally passionate about their faith. Her middle daughter, Daisy, is even studying for a Ph.D. in theology.\u00a0\u201cWe have great conversations about thinking about the Bible in the context of when it was written,\u201d the actress\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/3-march\/features\/features\/interview-with-adjoa-andoh-bridgerton-actor-with-her-roots-in-the-soil\">said<\/a>\u00a0of her family. \u201cWho was it written for? Who it was written by? What was going on at the time?\u201d Andoh still thinks of church as a safe place to process thoughts and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>She explained, \u201cFor me, church is the place where we come in all our differences and all our difficulties. It\u2019s the place where you can be a hot mess; you don\u2019t have to be fine. It\u2019s you and God. As a community, we need to open those spaces so people always feel welcome.\u201d Andoh continued, \u201cOur job [as Christians] is to make the space so people can be in conversation, in relationship, in the peace, the solitude, the comfort \u2014 whatever they need \u2014 with God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBridgerton\u201d star Adjoa Andoh recently discussed the importance of the role faith has played in her life and how the church has always been her \u201cgo-to space.\u201d Andoh explained, sharing that her parents even met through her mother\u2019s vicar, \u201cFaith was big in my mother\u2019s family.\u201d The actress attended her village\u2019s chapel and church, 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