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A leading figure in contemporary gospel, Kirk Franklin's life so far has been a mix of the sacred and the profane, including teenage pot smoking and sex, and a more recent addiction to pornography. He was three years old when he was adopted by his 64-year-old churchgoing great-aunt Gertrude from her drug-addicted niece, who'd had to be dissuaded from having him aborted. Franklin's first exposure to religion and to the music that would play a vital part in his life was accompanied by merciless bullying from his peers. In his autobiography, CHURCH BOY, he recounts his teenage drug use, which was financed by his position as music minister at his local Forth Worth, Texas, Baptist church. The accidental shooting death of a close friend led him to renounce drugs, though sexual abstinence was another matter; Franklin puts his experience with drugs and pre-marital sex to good use in advising the more youthful members of his flock against both. But while his musings on a variety of hot religious topics, including homosexuality in the church, are engrossing, it's when he's talking about his music, and the effect that his faith has had on its success, that the minister's story becomes most compelling.
| Size | | Length: | 232 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
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