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I can't get him out of my head...

by Paula Neal Mooney ...or, more precisely, out of my Spirit, that is. I had the pleasure of interviewing Israel Houghton of the popular group Israel & New Breed probably two years ago now. "I did that inteview on my knees I was so grateful," I told my former copy desk chief friend Jim Kavanagh, formerly with the Akron Beacon Journal , now proudly with CNN. I probably should have mentioned that it was a phone interview with Israel "Iz" Houghton , but I'm sure he got my point... Anyway, Israel was so gracious to grant a newbie like me my first "celebrity" interview. He'd just returned from South Africa, where he'd recorded the amazing Alive in South Africa CD and DVD. Israel confirmed some of his dramatic testimony: White mother impregnated by a black man, kicked out of the house, contemplating abortion till she ran into a woman who told her "You are not forgotten" and led her in the sinner's prayer right on a California s...