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The Gathering: City Prayers, City Hopes

The Gathering


City Prayers, City Hopes

Jeannine Otis

List Price: $10.00

PAPERBACK , 112 pp , 4.75 x 6.5

  • Seabury Books
  • Feb/2007
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-59627-045-9
  • 7045

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This collection of prayers and reflections from rappers, both known and unknown, and inner city and incarcerated youth, is a powerful, unconventional expression of spirituality. Of great relevance for those speaking to the hip hop culture and experience ("Prayer for the DJs"), it cuts across boundaries.

I've did some bad things in my life,
from getting high to bad fights.
Plus lying, stealing & getting nice.
I knew that all those things weren't right.
But now I have Jesus to make things tight.
Even though the devil still tempts us to cuss, I just block him out & think about Judas.
I will never betray God for the devil ever again.
Well,I can't say never, but I'll strive not to sin.

-Incarcerated Youth, USA

Jeannine Otis is the coordinator of Safari East Cultural Productions, musical director of the free choir at St. Mark's Church in the East Village of New York City, and a singer and business manager with HipHopEMass.

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