Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down

A robbery, a lynching, and a mourning mother shake up the Yada Yadas.

I had never felt so violated! The Yada Yada Prayer Group was "gettin' down" with God in prayer and praise one night when a heroin-crazed woman barged into my house, demanded our valuables, and threatened us with a 10-inch knife--a knife that drew blood. We wondered if we'd ever get back to normal after this terrifying experience. I assumed we would. After all, we'd started praying together at the Chicago Women's Conference last spring, and we'd been through a lot already as spiritual sisters. This was just one more hurdle to conquer, right? But then a well-meaning gesture suddenly incited a backlash of anger in the group, forcing us to confront generations of racial division, pain, and distrust--and stretching our friendship to the limit. And a shocking confrontation in my third-grade classroom forced me to face my own accountability and learn what true forgiveness really is.

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In this second installment of the series, a robbery, a lynching, and a mourning mother shake up the Yada Yada Prayer Group.One night, while the Yada Yadas are "gettin' down" with God in prayer, a heroine-crazed woman barges into the house and, at knife-point, demands their valuables.Then a well-meaning gesture incites a backlash of anger within the group forcing them to confront generations of racial division and distrust. The members of the Yada Yada Prayer Group find themselves learning what true forgiveness is.