{"id":5110,"date":"2009-11-24T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:14:52","slug":"november-27-2009-wintley-phipps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2009\/11\/24\/november-27-2009-wintley-phipps\/5110\/","title":{"rendered":" Wintley Phipps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/april-10-2009\/wintley-phipps\/2627\/\">Click here<\/a> to view the original April 10, 2009 story and additional Wintley Phipps videos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor WINTLEY PHIPPS<\/strong> (singing at National Prayer Service, Washington National Cathedral):\u00a0 \u201cAmazing Grace, how sweet the sound . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>KIM LAWTON<\/strong>:\u00a0 Grammy-nominated Gospel singer Wintley Phipps is a familiar voice at big national events. At President Barack Obama\u2019s National Prayer Service following his Inauguration, Phipps\u2019s rendition of \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d brought the entire National Cathedral audience, including the new president and first lady, to their feet. But he says it\u2019s just as meaningful to him when he sings in places like prisons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor\u00a0 PHIPPS:<\/strong> There is a sense that you\u2019re giving hope to people who really need it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>:\u00a0 For Phipps, who is also a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, music is a ministry and, he says, one of the deepest expressions of his Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2009\/11\/post0123.jpg\" alt=\"post01\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong>: Music is almost to me an echo of the sounds of the divine world, and when you hear these sounds, it stirs something deeply spiritual within you.\u00a0 Music also is the most powerful way of impressing the human mind with hope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>: Hope has been a hallmark not only of Phipps\u2019s musical career, but in his charitable efforts as well.\u00a0 In 1998, Phipps founded the Dream Academy, a national nonprofit for at-risk kids. Born in Trinidad, he says hope was crucial in overcoming his own at-risk childhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong>: I was born to a troubled home, and I used to get away from my parents\u2019 troubles \u2014 I had a little red tricycle, and I\u2019d go in the back yard of my house, and I would turn the tricycle on its side and use one of the backside wheels as a steering wheel, and I would sit there for hours, and I would dream that I was flying to faraway places in the world and meeting important people when I was six, seven years old, and then I wanted to be like Tom Jones.\u00a0 I\u2019d go around the house singing, \u201cIt\u2019s not unusual to be loved.\u201d\u00a0 I just wanted to be Tom. But something was missing to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>: Despite a difficult family life, Phipps says his mother always prayed for him and told him that God had a special plan for his life.\u00a0 As a teenager, Phipps embraced her faith as his own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong>:\u00a0 At the age of 16, God walked into my life and said, \u201cI\u2019ve seen your dreams. Give me your dreams, and I\u2019ll let you see what I\u2019ve been dreaming for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2009\/11\/post045.jpg\" alt=\"post04\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Singing at National Prayer Service<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>:\u00a0 He attended an historically black Seventh-day Adventist college in Alabama, where he met Linda, now his wife of 32 years.\u00a0 Then, Phipps says, God began providing opportunities for him to sing in national venues such as a 1984 appearance on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d with Jesse Jackson.\u00a0 He came to the attention of Billy Graham\u2019s team and became a frequent performer at the evangelist\u2019s crusades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong> (singing in Washington): &#8220;Talk about a child that do love Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>: Phipps also became a favorite in Washington. He\u2019s sung for every president since Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong>: I\u2019ve never had a manager or never had an agent, and yet some of the most wonderful moments that a singer could ever dream of have happened to me, and I believe it\u2019s providential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>: The idea for the Dream Academy came after he got involved with a prison ministry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong>: I did not know that so many young men in prison looked like my sons, and when I saw it I was shaken. One of every three young black men in America between the ages of 18 and 30 are in prison today or supervised by the court system either on probation or parole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>: Phipps then learned that 60 percent of the young people who end up in prison are the children of prisoners. He wanted to break the cycle of intergenerational incarceration. The Dream Academy offers after-school mentoring and interactive academic tutoring to children of prisoners and kids falling behind at school.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2009\/11\/post0213.jpg\" alt=\"post02\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong>: One of the most exciting things that can ever happen in a child\u2019s life is to know that , \u201cYou mean God thinks about me?\u00a0 Or God dreams about me?\u201d\u00a0 And he\u2019s got a dream for my life?\u201d\u00a0 And when you catch a little glimpse of what that dream is, wow, it changes everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>:\u00a0 Phipps has enlisted the support of some of his famous connections for the project.\u00a0 One of his biggest benefactors is his longtime friend Oprah Winfrey.\u00a0 The lesson of faith, he says, is that things aren\u2019t always as they seem and that hardship can be overcome.\u00a0 In these uncertain economic times, he\u2019s released a new music DVD called \u201cNo Need to Fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>:\u00a0 It\u2019s a theme he finds throughout the old spirituals that he often performs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong> (singing): &#8220;Swing low sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Negro spiritual teaches us that you\u2019re going come up rough sides of mountains, and you\u2019re going to have difficulties.\u00a0 But faith gives you that ability to weather any storm.<\/p>\n<p>(singing): &#8220;I looked over Jordan and what did I see?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>:\u00a0 It\u2019s the core theme as well for the song that has become his signature, \u201cAmazing Grace.\u201d\u00a0 He finds great spiritual lessons in the history of the song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor PHIPPS<\/strong>:\u00a0 A lot of people don\u2019t realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano, and they just keep recurring.\u00a0 Probably the most famous white spiritual that\u2019s built on this slave scale was written by a man by the name of John Newton who, before he became a Christian, used to be the captain of a slave ship and many believe heard this melody that sounds very much like a West African sorrow chant<em> (hums &#8220;Amazing Grace\u201d)<\/em>.\u00a0 And it has a haunting, haunting, plaintive quality to it that reaches past your arrogance, past your pride, and it speaks to that part of you that\u2019s in bondage, and we feel it. We feel it. It\u2019s just one of the most amazing melodies in all of human history.<\/p>\n<p>(performing \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d on stage): &#8220;To sing God\u2019s praise than when we\u2019ve\u00a0 first begun. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWTON<\/strong>: Another lesson, he says, on how hope always triumphs. 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