The yada yada Prayer Group Gets Down Author:neta jackson A robbery, a lynching and a mourning mother shake up the Yada Yada Prayer Group. — I had never felt so violated! The Yada Yada Prayer Group was "getting 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 ten-inch knife--a knife that drew blood. — We wondere... more »d if we'd ever get back to normal after this terrifying experience. I assumed we would (although normal doesn't usually describe the twelve of us mismatched women anyway).
But then a well-meaning gesture incited a backlash of anger in the group, forcing us to confront generations of racial division, pain and distrust. Initially, I thought, Surely, I Jodi "Good Girl" Baxter, am not responsible for other people's sins---am I? But a shocking confrontation in my third-grade classroom forced me to face my own accountability, and God used the Yada Yada Prayer Group to show me what true forgiveness really is.« less