Gene Rivers explains that the Morning Star incident brought the issue to a head and confronted the established Black Church's refusal to engage this growing crisis of violence. Half a dozen clergymen got together and formed what became the Boston Ten Point Coalition. They've helped him to have confidence in himself and what he can do. Steven himself says it's like heaven, because he feels safe there. He thinks he owes his life to the sanctuary and Gene Rivers.
Love gives meaning so that faith and hope have basis in reality for being attainable.
But that doesn't prevent him from being tough. The tough talk is the tough talk of a punk. And because I'm an adult and you're a child I understand that. And we're going to love the child, but we do not mess around. Boston Police Commissioner Paul Evans recognises that the churches have a strength on the streets that the police don't have, and that the 'lock them up' philosophy is not the solution.