Get Out! Of Solitary Confinement
ExodusFoundation.org rsvp@exodusfoundation.org We are at the end of a heated primary race. I know all of the candidates for Sheriff in...
Second Chances Close to Home
In the minds of many people in church leadership, the prison and the prisoner have been "the uttermost parts of the earth"—people that we...
Rev. Dr. Harold Trulear Speaker for Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration
St. Davids, PA, January 12, 2018: Eastern University was honored to welcome to our Windows on the World lecture series today, as part of...
WELCOME HOME: COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
You ever heard of “community corrections?” If not, you have heard of probation and parole. Well, now they are called “community...
WELCOME HOME: WHAT ’13TH’ TEACHES US ABOUT AMERICA & THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
“Doc, you gotta watch 13th!.” I heard that a million times after the new Netflix documentary 13th (by acclaimed director Ava Duvernay)...
WELCOME HOME: “CAN I TRUST YOU?”
Can I trust you? You may not have said that lately, but you thought it. You thought it about another person, a family member, a cop,...
Prison Ministries Encourage Personal, Spiritual Growth
Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention. WETUMPKA, Ala. (BP) -- When an...
WELCOME HOME: STAYING OUT SHOULD NOT BE YOUR GOAL
Chris Rock is funny. I can do without the vulgar language, especially the “N” word, but his humor opens up some serious stuff. Like,...
WELCOME HOME!: THOSE WHO SOW WITH TEARS…
Do you know that you’ve been cried over? I saw it yesterday in a small church in Virginia. About a dozen people gathered for morning...
Churches & Prison Ministry: There’s nobody like that in my church!
“So far, so good…”The sentiment echoed in the back of my mind constantly, as I surveyed the faces of others on my cell block. I felt...
