House of Roots and Bones: BMCB Practicum Courses

BMCB BCH 711 — How Big Mama Reads Scripture
This practicum teaches the department’s complete method for reading Scripture as text, prayer, testimony, instruction, spiritual authority, and living Word. Students learn to ask what a specific Biblical passage meant, what action it teaches, and what the passage actually claims. Historical context is considered before a passage is applied to Hoodoo practice.
BMCB BCH 712 — Scripture as Rootwork
This course examines the many ways Scripture enters Black American Hoodoo beyond simply reciting verses as conditions. Students study Biblical material for protection, prosperity, spiritual warfare, guidance, and petition. Scripture written on petitions, and verses placed with materials, are examined. The course teaches students to work Scripture because they understand its authority and meaning.
BMCB BCH 713 — Choosing Scripture by Condition
This course trains students to select Scripture only after the spiritual condition has been identified. Students compare passages for enemies, protection, healing, grief, justice, provision, reconciliation, and more. Case exercises require students to defend Scripture selection from the text itself.
BMCB BCH 714 — Praying Scripture Over Roots
This course teaches students to select and pray Scripture over roots according to both the Biblical text and the traditional purpose of the material. Students work with strengthening, protection, luck, mastery, court, drawing, and other root conditions. Prayer is constructed from the actual condition and students explain why the root and Scripture belong together.
BMCB BCH 715 — Praying Scripture Over Candles and Lamps
This course teaches Biblical prayer over candles, lamps, and spiritual lights. Students select Scripture for protection, justice, healing, remembrance, provision, or other diagnosed purposes. Dressing, lighting, spoken prayer, maintenance, observation, and completion are integrated into one sequence.
BMCB BCH 716 — Praying Scripture Over Baths and Washes
This course integrates Scripture with personal baths, house washes, cleansing water, protection washes, and restorative treatments. Students study Biblical language of washing, purification, crossing, healing, and renewal. They practice selecting prayers appropriate to what is being removed and what should replace it afterward.
BMCB BCH 717 — Praying Scripture Over Mojo Hands
This course teaches students to integrate Biblical prayer into construction and maintenance of mojo hands. Scripture is selected according to the hand’s actual purpose and traditional function of its contents. Students pray during preparation, assembly, tying, dressing, and maintenance where appropriate.
BMCB BCH 718 — Scripture for Ancestor Work
This course examines Scripture used around remembrance, genealogy, family continuity, mourning, thanksgiving, and ancestral practice. Students study Biblical genealogies, remembered predecessors, and memorial acts while maintaining theological distinctions. The course gives Christian Hoodoo practitioners a thoughtful Biblical vocabulary for tending family memory.
BMCB BCH 719 — Scripture for Healing
This course examines the selection and prayer of Scripture for illness, recovery, comfort, strength, convalescence, and spiritual healing. Students distinguish healing prayer from claims that a particular disease will disappear or cured. Case exercises, Psalms, and pastoral texts are compared and students learn to pray alongside medical care.
BMCB BCH 720 — Scripture for Protection
This course examines Biblical protection language for people, homes, families, travelers, workers, children, and businesses. Students distinguish refuge, guarding, courage, consecration, deliverance, and fortification within Biblical language. The course teaches that Biblical protection establishes a condition in which a person can stand.
BMCB BCH 721 — Scripture for Uncrossing
This course examines Scripture used when removing crossed, burdened, contaminated, or oppressive conditions. Students study Biblical language of cleansing, deliverance, release, refuge, and restoration and learn to incorporate it into baths, washes, candles, and other uncrossing methods. The course emphasizes proper diagnosis so cleansing texts are used with discernment and purpose.
BMCB BCH 722 — Scripture for Justice
This course examines Scripture concerning justice, oppression, false witnesses, corrupt authority, vindication, and the protection of vulnerable people. Students compare prophetic, Psalmic, and narrative texts and learn to distinguish true justice from personal punishment. Case exercises require students to identify what a just outcome looks like before selecting Scripture.
BMCB BCH 723 — Scripture for Court Cases
This course specializes in Scripture for legal proceedings, authorities, testimony, favor, and vindication. Students study Esther, Psalms, Proverbs, and other texts while integrating prayer with preparation, legal representation, and court-case rootwork. The course teaches how to approach the courthouse with both the Word and good sense.
BMCB BCH 724 — Scripture for Enemy Conditions
This course addresses Biblical prayer when genuine hostility, malicious action, or oppression has been established. Students examine imprecatory Psalms, prophetic judgment, and prayers for exposure, restraint, and deliverance while maintaining spiritual responsibility. The course teaches how to pray against enemies without allowing enemy consciousness to consume the work.
BMCB BCH 725 — Scripture for Reversal
This course examines Biblical narratives and prayers where traps fail, accusations collapse, and intended harm returns upon its source. Students study Esther, Psalms, and prophetic passages and learn to distinguish reversal from removal, punishment, or revenge. The course teaches reversal as the turning of an established condition with clarity, evidence, and proper jurisdiction.
BMCB BCH 726 — Scripture for Road Opening
This course examines Biblical images of roads, gates, wilderness pathways, and entering new territory. Students diagnose why movement is blocked before selecting Scripture, using Exodus, Joshua, Isaiah, Psalms, and other texts. The course integrates prayer with roadwork, practical action, and follow-up so the right opportunities open and the right roads are chosen.
BMCB BCH 727 — Scripture for Money & Provision
This course examines Scripture concerning work, provision, debt, generosity, and material need. Students reject prosperity-gospel assumptions and study Biblical provision through manna, gleaning, labor, and wisdom. The course teaches students to select Scripture according to actual financial conditions and to build provision through prayer, work, and spiritual discipline.
BMCB BCH 728 — Scripture for Love & Reconciliation
This course examines Scripture for affection, courtship, reconciliation, marriage, and relationship healing. Students study Song of Solomon, Ruth, Psalms, Proverbs, and Gospel teachings and learn to distinguish love texts from those misused out of context. The course teaches appropriate diagnosis so reconciliation work is realistic, respectful, and spiritually sound.
BMCB BCH 729 — Scripture for Family & Household Peace
This course examines Scripture concerning family, children, elders, household conduct, and peace. Students study Biblical families honestly and use Scripture to support reconciliation, forgiveness, boundaries, and healthy communication. The course integrates prayer with household cleansing and peace work to create stability without ignoring real conflict.
BMCB BCH 730 — Scripture for Grief & Death
This course prepares practitioners to use Scripture around death, mourning, and remembrance. Students study lament, comfort, resurrection hope, and the ministry of presence without silencing grief with clichés. The course includes funeral, bedside, memorial, and private grief prayers and honors the reality tha