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Music critics say during his more than 20-year-long career, Kirk Franklin has revolutionized gospel music, blending it with R&B, rap, pop, and hip-hop. He has received 10 Grammy awards and has sold more than 10 million albums. Correspondent Kim Lawton caught up with Franklin in Baltimore during his most recent concert tour, where they talked about his Christian faith and his desire to \u201cmake God famous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThese are shaky times,\u201d says Christian gospel, R&B, rap, pop, and hip-hop artist Kirk Franklin. \u201cI\u2019m praying and hoping maybe one thing that I\u2019ve said, from somebody who came from nothing, could maybe still give just a little bit of hope that it can get better.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":31413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-literature-and-the-arts","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"\nKirk Franklin | November 23, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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