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Upon This Rock: Miracles of a Black Church, the
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Black American StudiesGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work
ISBN13: 9780060924591
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Feb 16 1994
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
Awards: Helen Bernstein Book Award
Freedman's vivid, wonderfully affecting book . . . is journalism of the highest order, a compassionate account of a year in the life of an extraordinary man, a charismatic Brooklyn preacher named Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood, . . . . A sharply focused, triumphant hymn-shouting wonder of a book documenting the spiritual and worldly struggles of a people grappling with everyday realities that would test the convictions of a saint. --Entertainment Weekly (A)
Upon This Rock provides a route back to hope for all readers. --Christian Science Monitor
In this widely acclaimed bestseller, Samuel Freedman, the author of Small Victories, tackles another explosive issue, this time race in America, by taking an in-depth look at the pastor of a thriving Black church in one of New York's most desperate slums.
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