In Ron Suskind’s book, Hope in the Unseen, Suskind criticizes the Scripture Church, the church Cedric and Barbara attend, calling attention to Bishop Long and the corruption in the church. Bishop long is the head pastor if the scripture church raising it into what it is today; the large populace of the church are poor African Americans, however Bishop Long himself is a well of man being in possession of a “comfortable house in Mitchellville, Maryland”(148) quite foreign to his constituents who live in small houses or no house at all. Suskind is criticizing Bishop Long not giving the money back to the people in need but to only keep it for himself and profit while many of his pupils live without a dollar to spare. Often in Cedric’s life his mother, Barbara has given her last dollar to the church something that Bishop long has often requested of his flock saying that if you give your last dollar “Then, and only then, will you know what faith is all about.”(30).
