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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Penitential Cries to God | |
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| A Prayer for New Birth | |
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| A Mother's Prayer for the Child in Her Womb | |
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| A Prayer for Faith | |
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| A Prayer for Hope | |
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| A Prayer for Love | |
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| A Thanksgiving Prayer for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | |
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| A Prayer for Sanctification | |
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| A Prayer for Africa's Children | |
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| A Prayer for Trust | |
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| A Prayer for the Abolition of Slavery | |
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| A Slave Woman's Prayer | |
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| A Desire to Know Our Characters | |
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| For the Morning | |
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| Prayers from a Pilgrim's Journal | |
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| A Prophet's Plea to God | |
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| And Now What Wait We For? | |
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| A Prayer for Divine Companionship | |
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| A Prayer for Holy Zeal | |
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| A Prayer for the Children of Africa in America | |
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| A Prayer for Purification | |
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| A Prayer for Vision | |
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| O God, This Great Work Is Thine | |
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| Purge Us from All Our Dross | |
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| The Hour of Prayer | |
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| Prayer for Dedication of a Church Edifice | |
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| A Teacher's Prayer | |
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| Instructions in the Midst of Prayer | |
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| A Pastor's Last Prayer for His People | |
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| A Slave Mother's Doleful Prayer | |
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| A Piteous Prayer to a Hidden God | |
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| A Poor Negro's Prayer | |
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| A Sacred Ode: A Prayer for the Consecration of a Pulpit | |
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| A Prayer for the Mourner's Bench | |
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| Poetic Prayer for a New Day | |
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| A Prayer at Westminster Abbey | |
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| Always Pray | |
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| We Bless God | |
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| A Benediction for a Peaceful Soul | |
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| A Prayer for Power | |
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| Doxology | |
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| I Will Look Up | |
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| Matin Hymn | |
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| Thou Lovest Me | |
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| Unuttered Prayer | |
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| A Slave Mother's Prayer | |
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| Some Prayers of Slave Children | |
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| A Bishop's Benediction | |
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| O God, Save Me | |
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| A Conversation with the Lord | |
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| A Prayer for Spiritual Assurance | |
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| As I Am Running | |
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| Lord, Rebuke Thy Servant Not | |
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| Prayer for Consecration | |
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| Our Plea | |
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| Hidden Grief | |
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| Who? | |
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| Ah, Tender Soul | |
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| Again and One More Time | |
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| The Sun Done Rose | |
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| An Offering | |
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| Lead Gently, Lord | |
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| The Warrior's Prayer | |
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| When Storms Arise | |
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| The Soul's Thirst | |
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| A Psalm of the Soul | |
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| A Hymn of Praise | |
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| Elijah's Stay | |
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| A Prayer for the Human Heart | |
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| A Slave Father's Prayer | |
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| Lord God, To Whom Our Fathers Pray'd | |
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| A Hymn | |
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| A Prayer | |
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| The Century Prayer | |
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| Stand by Me | |
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| A Litany of Atlanta | |
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| Give Us Grace | |
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| A Prayer for Endurance | |
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| A Prayer for Vision and Thought | |
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| The Prayers of God | |
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| A Vision at the Great Azusa Prayer Meetings | |
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| An Exhortative Invocation | |
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| I'll Follow Thee | |
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| Out of the Deep: A Prayer | |
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| Storm-Beaten | |
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| Appeal to Heaven | |
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| Lord, Your Weak Servants Bow | |
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| Thou Hast Supplied My Every Need | |
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| A Prayer for the Nations | |
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| Cleave Us a Way, O Lord | |
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| God of Our Weary Years | |
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| A Prayer for Good Friday | |
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| A Prayer for the Synod . . . | |
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| We Are Fully in Thy Sight | |
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| Pagan Prayer | |
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| The Shroud of Color | |
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| Prayer for Freedom from Race Prejudice | |
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| Keep Me from Sinkin' Down | |
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| A Deacon's Campmeeting Prayer | |
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| De Same God | |
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| Draw Me, Dear Jesus | |
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| A Marriage Prayer | |
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| O Lord, Have Mercy! | |
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| The Inward Conflict | |
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| Holy Spirit, Come! | |
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| In This Hour | |
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| One Thing I Crave | |
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| Precious Lord, Take My Hand | |
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| Sunday School Prayers | |
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| We Thank Thee | |
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| Thankful Pleading | |
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| Thy Holy Presence | |
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| A Sunday Morning Prayer | |
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| We Beg Thee | |
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| We Ask Thee | |
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| We Surrender to Thee | |
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| Thy Wonderful Blessings | |
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| Forever and Ever | |
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| The Sweet Voice | |
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| Duty Bound to Pray | |
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| Bless the Low in Spirit | |
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| Grant Me Strength | |
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| A Thanksgiving Prayer | |
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| A Prayer of Contrition | |
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| A Mother's Desperate Plea | |
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| A Familiar Prayer | |
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| Touch Me, Lord Jesus | |
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| God Speed the Day | |
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| Look Thou with Compassion upon Every Heart | |
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| O Shepard Divine | |
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| Our Need for Thee | |
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| We Need Thy Hand | |
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| Return, O Lord | |
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| They Would Pray | |
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| Dear God, Thank You for the Morning Light | |
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| O My God, Please Close This War | |
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| Please Send Our Boys Back Home | |
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| What It Means to Pray Through | |
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| I Ask You, Jesus, to Take Care of Me | |
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| Send It Now, Lord | |
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| Thank Thee for Everything | |
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| Thou Have Widen the Way for Us | |
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| I Let Go of My Accumulations | |
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| O God, I Need Thee | |
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| The Prayer of Florence's Mother | |
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| Lead Me, Guide Me | |
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| A Prayer for a College Woman | |
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| A Pastoral Prayer | |
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| A Prayer for Freedom | |
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| Prayer for Teacher | |
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| The Eighth Psalm | |
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| A Prayer for Love | |
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| Bless Those Who Teach | |
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| Rekindle Our Sense of Wonder | |
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| We Cast Ourselves upon Thee | |
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| Brother Ezekiel Prays Besides Hetta's Deathbed | |
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| Vyry's Prayer in the Wilderness of Reconstruction | |
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| A Child's Prayer | |
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| A Prayer for African American Peoplehood | |
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| The Hasty Word | |
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| We Don't Know How | |
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| Give Me a Clean Heart | |
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| Memorial Prayer at Howard University in Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King | |
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| A Prayer for a Positive Attitude | |
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| Good Friday Declarations of Awareness | |
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| Benediction | |
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| Lord, Help Me to Hold Out | |
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| Dear Jesus, I Love You | |
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| The Prayers of Our Grandmothers | |
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| Help Me, Lord, to Stand for the Kingdom | |
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| Pray for the Christian Family | |
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| You Know the Purpose of Our Gathering, Jesus | |
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| A Prayer Before the Everlasting Fountain | |
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| The Classic African-American Folk Prayer | |
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| The Plea of a Raped Woman | |
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| A Prayer for Healing | |
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| O God, Slow Us Down | |
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| Thank You for Each One of Them | |
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| Lord, We Didn't Come Here to Stay | |
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| A Benediction for a Church Ground Breaking Service | |
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| Trying to See the Light | |
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| A Peace and Affirmation Prayer | |
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| Lord, I'm Willing | |
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| A Plea for Divine Presence | |
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| An Altar Prayer | |
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| O God of Love, Power and Justice | |
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| Dear God, If You Please | |
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| Dear God, My Son Prays | |
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| O God, Death Is All Around | |
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| O God, I Get So Tired of Racism Wherever I Go | |
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| I Call Upon Your Name, Lord Jesus | |
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| We Need Thee, Lord Jesus, As Never Before | |
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| A Pastor's Prayer for a Son on Drugs | |
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| A Pastor's Prayer for Those in Prison | |
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| I Must Tell Jesus | |
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| A Prayer for Liberation That Leads to Liberating Love | |
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| A Lenten Prayer | |
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| Why, Jesus?! | |
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| Afterword: A Scholar's Benediction | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Notes on Sources | |
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| Index | |