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Rev. Leon Kelly, Moses in the land of gangsters

REV. Leon Kelly is on speakerphone in his downtown office, speaking to a man in another city. As his visitors wait for him to finish the call, it becomes apparent that the man lived in Denver some years ago, that he was involved in gang activity here and that he came perilously close to death because of that activity. “Do you remember when they wheeled you into the emergency room,” Kelly asks the man, “with a bullet in your head?” The man on the other end of the line chuckles softly, his close familiarity with Kelly obvious from the tone of his voice. “Yeah, I remember, bro,” the man says. “I also remember that you were right there with me.” Those four words — “right […]
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