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Heart and Soul: Fork in the Road: Fork in the Road - Two journeys out of violence

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Jahaziel

05/04/2019 GMT

Fork in the Road - Two journeys out of violence

Fork in the Road

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Rappers with different takes on Christianity

London rappers Jahaziel and Guvna B both grew up in violent environments, but while one has turned his back on Christianity, the other uses his music to express his faith.

In the final part of Fork in the Road, Jane Little meets two more people who have been through similar life changing experiences, but have had their faith affected in different ways.
 
Jahaziel and Guvna B are both rappers, and products of the housing estates of London. They have both seen street violence,  friends hurt, and witnessed the decaying effect on the lives of young black men.
 
Jahaziel was one of the biggest selling Christian rappers, but now he has left his faith. He tells Jane how he just couldn’t regurgitate the ideas that he had been fed since he was a boy, and how his fans turned on him when he turned his back on Christianity.
 
Guvna B grew up in a similar gang-ruled neighbourhood of London. He now shares his strong Christian faith through his own music, winning a MOBO in 2010. Jane hears how his music is his relationship with God.
 
After hearing their individual stories of growing up amid gang violence, Jane brings them together to discuss how, despite those similar circumstances, they have taken different paths in faith.

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Heart and Soul: Fork in the Road

Jane Little finds out how similar experiences can affect two people's faith differently.

In this series of three programmes Jane Little meets two people who have been through the same events or similar experiences to talk about how it has affected their lives and their faith.

Starting off by speaking to them separately, she will hear their individual stories, and then bring them together so they can share with Jane and each other how those events, which were so similar, led to one of them losing their faith and the other having their faith strengthened.
 
Jane will explore the role of war, sexuality, abuse within faith community’s, terrorist attacks and gang violence, meeting two fascinating people who have something major in common only for it to lead them down such different paths.

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