Free on the Inside
Free on the Inside

Author: Sr Greta Ronningen

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781539522935

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Free On the Inside is a spiritual classic. Written from a deep Christian faith and a passionate love for Jesus, it offers hope and concrete guidance for how to survive a season of incarceration with your soul not only preserved but transformed. This book describes how a prison cell can become a monastic cell, how imprisonment can be a time of spiritual rehabilitation, and how those who are incarcerated have a sacred lineage with prisoners in the Bible who found God within their captivity. Sr. Greta Ronningen offers a spiritual path for those imprisoned. She shows how the traumatic roots of destructive behavior can be healed; how wrongs can be forgiven; how broken relationships can be restored; and how prayer and spiritual practice can transform a prison sentence into an encounter with God. With Sr. Greta's compassionate heart and skillful guidance, one can discover how even jails are holy ground.

God Behind Bars
God Behind Bars

Author: John Perry

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2006-08-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 141852588X

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When Charles Colson was released after seven months of prison time following the Watergate scandal, the last thing on earth he wanted to do was go back into those dark, frightening prisons, but God called him to do just that. Thus was born a life-long ministry, and here, for the first time, if the amazing success story of Prison Fellowship's thirty years of work in the darkest places on earth.

Grace Behind Bars
Grace Behind Bars

Author: Bo Mitchell

Publisher: NavPress

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1624057845

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Grace Behind Bars shares the true and dramatic account of how Bo Mitchell, businessman and chaplain for the Denver Nuggets, inexplicably ended up in federal prison only to find God’s true freedom behind bars. Ironically, it’s in a six-by-nine-foot cell that God begins to free this driven Christian leader from his prison of performance and success. In the end, Bo realizes that God’s love is a gift, not something he must earn. But there’s more to the story: Just before Bo enters prison, his wife, Gari, becomes incapacitated by a brain illness and enters her own prison of clinical depression. Readers will see how the couple struggled together as their world fell apart, yet ultimately grew closer to each other and God behind the bars of their trials. This story will not only inspire and encourage readers, it will show them how they, too, can find spiritual freedom in life’s “prisons” if they choose to see God’s hand in their lives.

God in Captivity
God in Captivity

Author: Tanya Erzen

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0807089982

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An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United States It is by now well known that the United States’ incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state and federal prisons are increasingly relying on religious organizations to provide educational and mental health services and to help maintain order. And these religious organizations are overwhelmingly run by nondenominational Protestant Christians who see prisoners as captive audiences. Some twenty thousand of these Evangelical Christian volunteers now run educational programs in over three hundred US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Prison seminary programs are flourishing in states as diverse as Texas and Tennessee, California and Illinois, and almost half of the federal prisons operate or are developing faith-based residential programs. Tanya Erzen gained inside access to many of these programs, spending time with prisoners, wardens, and members of faith-based ministries in six states, at both male and female penitentiaries, to better understand both the nature of these ministries and their effects. What she discovered raises questions about how these ministries and the people who live in prison grapple with the meaning of punishment and redemption, as well as what legal and ethical issues emerge when conservative Christians are the main and sometimes only outside forces in a prison system that no longer offers even the pretense of rehabilitation. Yet Erzen also shows how prison ministries make undeniably positive impacts on the lives of many prisoners: men and women who have no hope of ever leaving prison can achieve personal growth, a sense of community, and a degree of liberation within the confines of their cells. With both empathy and a critical eye, God in Captivity grapples with the questions of how faith-based programs serve the punitive regime of the prison, becoming a method of control behind bars even as prisoners use them as a lifeline for self-transformation and dignity.

Rethinking Incarceration
Rethinking Incarceration

Author: Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2018-03-02

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0830887733

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The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Exploring the history and foundations of mass incarceration, Dominique Gilliard examines Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion, assessing justice in light of Scripture, and showing how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles.

God behind Bars: An Empirical Approach to Prison Ministry in the United States and Germany
God behind Bars: An Empirical Approach to Prison Ministry in the United States and Germany

Author: Daniel B. Lampe

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published:

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 3643916655

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This first empirical study on differences between prison ministries in the US and Germany enables a dialogue between chaplains of both countries. What can they learn from each other? What do they have in common – that thus has been transculturally tested? The divergent theological-philosophical backgrounds of the two criminal justice systems are presented along with their different accentuations of retributing punishment and rehabilitating restoration. Religious extremism of inmates and „switching“ of religious orientation in prisons are discussed, the roles of volunteers assessed, and promising restoration methods presented – such as the so-called „Circles“ or religion-related rehabilitation programs, which have been proven to reduce recidivism by changing inmates‘ mindsets. The book examines chaplains‘ working styles in ten fields of activity as well as their theological and political leanings, their job satisfaction and factors contributing to overload, their time management, and their „dreams“ of what could be done better.

The Cross and the .357 Magnum
The Cross and the .357 Magnum

Author: Philip T. Hicks

Publisher: Bridge Logos Foundation

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780882703206

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This book tells the story of Phillip Hicks who lived the life of the prodigal son that let him to a sentence of life plus 15 years and sent to a maximum security prison. He found Jesus during this time, told the truth at his trial and was miraculously released from prison. An incredible story that will show God's amazing grace and mercy. Filled with miracle after miracle, you will learn how the truth will set you free.

God’s Law and Order
God’s Law and Order

Author: Aaron Griffith

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0674238788

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An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped—and were shaped by—the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive scale. Despite recent reforms, the United States locks up large numbers of people—disproportionately poor and nonwhite—for long periods and offers little opportunity for restoration. Aaron Griffith reveals a key component in the origins of American mass incarceration: evangelical Christianity. Evangelicals in the postwar era made crime concern a major religious issue and found new platforms for shaping public life through punitive politics. Religious leaders like Billy Graham and David Wilkerson mobilized fears of lawbreaking and concern for offenders to sharpen appeals for Christian conversion, setting the stage for evangelicals who began advocating tough-on-crime politics in the 1960s. Building on religious campaigns for public safety earlier in the twentieth century, some preachers and politicians pushed for “law and order,” urging support for harsh sentences and expanded policing. Other evangelicals saw crime as a missionary opportunity, launching innovative ministries that reshaped the practice of religion in prisons. From the 1980s on, evangelicals were instrumental in popularizing criminal justice reform, making it a central cause in the compassionate conservative movement. At every stage in their work, evangelicals framed their efforts as colorblind, which only masked racial inequality in incarceration and delayed real change. Today evangelicals play an ambiguous role in reform, pressing for reduced imprisonment while backing law-and-order politicians. God’s Law and Order shows that we cannot understand the criminal justice system without accounting for evangelicalism’s impact on its historical development.

Behind Bars
Behind Bars

Author: Elaine Gould

Publisher: Faber Music Ltd

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 0571590039

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Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. This full eBook version is in fixed-layout format to ensure layout and image quality is consistent with the original hardback edition. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support the endeavours of software users and devotees of hand-copying alike. The author's understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable. This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis. This is the full eBook version of the original hardback edition.