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Hard Questions, Heart Answers

Name: Hard Questions, Heart Answers
Author: Rev B.A. King
ISBN: 9780553067101

by Rev B.A. King

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Overview

Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, is an ordained minister, an attorney, and one of this country's most admired speakers. As this remarkable collection of her sermons and speeches makes clear, she shares with her father a rare gift for oratory and the wisdom and compassion to inspire others.

The collection begins with words designed to "disturb the comfortable." Tackling such controversial subjects as our disaffected youth, gun control, and the death penalty, King paints a compelling picture of the spiritual decay and deep-seated racism that infects our society. In the second part of the book, a selection of sermons focusing on "comforting the disturbed," King's belief in the power of faith to restore our communities, morally and spiritually, rings forth. The church, she asserts, must return to its helping and healing mission, and each of us, looking into our hearts, must put aside our differences and remember that each human life is precious.

About the Author, Rev B.A. King

The Reverend Bernice A. King received her law degree and masters in divinity from Emory University. She is the assistant pastor at Greater Rising Star Baptist Church in Atlanta, where she oversees the church's youth and women's ministries. Reverend King is a frequent speaker on the national lecture circuit. She lives in Atlanta.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Echoes of Martin Luther King Jr.'s prophetic cadences resound throughout this collection of 17 public addresses by his youngest daughter. But the young Dr. King, with degrees in divinity and law from Emory University, is no carbon copy of her father. Part Bible-quoting Baptist preacher, part statistics-savvy community organizer, King motivates through popular proverbs, familiar anecdotes and urgent earnestness but promotes no specific plan of action. Be proud of our shared heritage, she tells African Americans, and join forces-"anything short of a collective vision is myopia"-to achieve "respect for life, respect for elders, respect for self, hard work, courtesy, honesty, and obeying the law." Women, recognize your strength. Men, walk your talk: "Sanctified men shake things up." King's passionate oral style survives its translation into print, though a video of King in the pulpit would no doubt pack more wallop than any book. Author tour. (Dec.)