Almost 20 years ago a jury acquitted four white police officers of the brutal beating of Rodney King. Angry crowds turned violent, and for two days LA burned. Frightened citizens went to places of worship to hear words of "hope and healing". Included here are the messages they heard. The speakers are "black, white, Hispanic, Asian, male, female, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Buddhist. Their backgrounds and their witnesses are different, but all spoke with one intent: to find embers of hope in the ashes of LA."
Dreams on Fire, Embers of Hope: From the Pulpits of Los Angeles After the Riots, edited by Ignacio Castuera (TPB, 1992, $1.75)
