Khary Bekka comes from a religious family—his grandfather was a Baptist minister and his grandmother was a fervent Pentecostal. “So I was basically a church boy,” he recalls, “went to Sunday school and everything.”
Shortly after turning 18, though, Khary participated in a gunfight where an innocent bystander was shot and killed. He received a sentence of 25 years to life, and his faith in God plummeted. Years later, while incarcerated, he was doing research for a book he planned to write about the Civil War, and the Quakers kept coming up in his reading. Curious, he began attending Quaker meetings at Sing Sing.
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