Break Every Yoke

Break Every Yoke

Author: Joshua Dubler

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0190949155

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Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of American religion. Once, in an era not too long past, Americans, both incarcerated and free, spoke a language of social liberation animated by religion. In the era of mass incarceration, we have largely forgotten how to dream-and organize-this way. To end mass incarceration we must reclaim this lost tradition. Properly conceived, the movement we need must demand not prison reform but prison abolition. Break Every Yoke weaves religion into the stories about race, politics, and economics that conventionally account for America's grotesque prison expansion of the last half century, and in so doing it sheds new light on one of our era's biggest human catastrophes. By foregrounding the role of religion in the way political elites, religious institutions, and incarcerated activists talk about incarceration, Break Every Yoke is an effort to stretch the American moral imagination and contribute resources toward envisioning alternative ways of doing justice. By looking back to nineteenth century abolitionism, and by turning to today's grassroots activists, it argues for reclaiming the abolition "spirit."


Break Every Yoke

Break Every Yoke

Author: Roger N. Kirkman

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 9780965872102

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In the early 1810s, North Carolina Quakers used a vagary in North Carolina law to protect slaves under their care and provide them with as much education and training as the law would allow. By 1826, these anti-slavery advocates took steps to give these ex-slaves, approximately 2,000, opportunities for freedom outside the South or to remain under the care of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting. By 1830 the Manumission Society had completed this task and went on to attempt to convince the North Carolina Legislature to abolish slavery, to little effect. About half of the Manumission Society delegates left the state for Indiana, where they continued to work for freedmen and abolition.


Break Every Yoke

Break Every Yoke

Author: Timothy Lanigan

Publisher: Break Every Yoke/Rebuilding Yo

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781638370130

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The message of this book addresses the lovingkindness of God, the challenges of reentry for the former prisoner, and the brokenness of the inner city.Loose the bonds of wickedness. Undo the heavy burdens. Let the oppressed go free. Break every yoke. These directives from God are found in a single verse in the Bible. Compassion for others emanates from God. He came to us in person, seeking and saving the lost, encouraging all of us to care for the poor and those in bondage, living under a yoke of oppression.Bonds of wickedness and heavy burdens can be seen in many walks of life. They represent the front lines of Christian ministry. The power of darkness in this world is real. It has resulted in addictions, poverty, and homelessness. Yokes of oppression are pushing many around! But hope in God is an anchor of the soul. The Christian walk in life, being in fellowship with God through faith in Jesus Christ - is the best form of rehabilitation, the best means of recovery, the best way to rebuild your life on planet Earth. Whether your faith in God is a tiny spark or a bright flame, consider being an extension of the merciful lovingkindness of our Lord, and Break Every Yoke.


TO BREAK EVERY YOKE

TO BREAK EVERY YOKE

Author: Ms. J. E. Franklin

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1483663574

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The four works presented in this book are about freedom: breaking free, staying free, and helping others to freedom. A college student travels south to do her part in making Dr. King's dream of freedom for everyone a reality; a mother struggles for over two decades to free her blind son from bondage; a white man finds himself entrapped in the racial laws of the nation's One-Drop Theory; a high school drop-out tries to break free from negative family forces to pursue her dream of being a dancer. The familiar characters may make you laugh, but they may also make you cry; the questions raised may provoke, but they may also stir your imaginations and challenge long-held views. Hopefully, they will leave all of us with a broader understanding of our predicament and of ways in which we may address it.


Smith Wigglesworth Devotional

Smith Wigglesworth Devotional

Author: Smith Wigglesworth

Publisher: Whitaker House

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 1558

ISBN-13: 160374178X

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Answering God’s call, Smith Wigglesworth took God at His word—with dramatic results. Sight was restored to the blind, hearing to the deaf, health to the diseased, and mental wholeness to the insane. Some dead were even brought back to life. Your faith will expand as you read Wigglesworth’s challenging insights into faith-filled living. Like Wigglesworth, you will find that you can… Dare to do exploits for God Quench your spiritual thirst Conquer fears that have defeated you Receive the Master’s healing touch Take authority over Satan Be an effective soul winner Find God’s power for daily living As you daily explore these truths from the Apostle of Faith, you will connect with God’s glorious power, cast out doubt, build up your faith, and see impossibilities turn into realities. Your prayer life will be transformed as you experience the joy of seeing powerful results when you minister to others.


The God Impulse

The God Impulse

Author: Jack Alexander

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1493409573

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For Jesus, truth and mercy went hand in hand. Where he preached he also healed. He didn't outsource one or the other to biblical scholars or nonprofit ministries. He presented the truth of the gospel through his words and his actions, and he did it all in a hands-on, relational way. And the reaction was the same wherever he went--people were amazed. Today we seem to have lost this powerful pattern of self-giving love, focusing on truth at the expense of mercy or on mercy at the expense of truth, and often failing to build genuine, lasting relationships with the people around us. In The God Impulse, Jack Alexander helps us recover Jesus's model, showing through biblical and modern real-life stories that God's first impulse toward us is mercy. He then sets forth a pattern for us to follow--to see, go, do, and endure--that not only spreads truth and love to those around us who are suffering but also causes them to gasp in amazement and consider the claims of the gospel for themselves.


What Jesus Demands from the World

What Jesus Demands from the World

Author: John Piper

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1581348452

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for every healthy tree bears good fruit --; Demand #28 : love your enemies--lead them to the truth --; Demand #29 : love your enemies--pray for those who abuse you --; Demand #30 : love your enemies--do good to those who hate you, give to the one who asks --; Demand #31 : love your enemies to show that you are children of God --; Demand #32 : love your neighbor as yourself,


Down in the Chapel

Down in the Chapel

Author: Joshua Dubler

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 146683711X

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A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears. Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all. When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.


Daily Walk Devotion

Daily Walk Devotion

Author: Chuck Musselwhite

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-03

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Our faith in Jesus is a daily walk with Him. Each day we look to Jesus for everything we need as we walk through life. Strengthen your daily walk with these 365 daily devotions to encourage and challenge you.


Prayers That Heal the Heart

Prayers That Heal the Heart

Author: Mark Virkler

Publisher: Bridge Logos Foundation

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780882708522

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In this book you will learn a counseling approach in a ministry of prayer that uses seven specific prayers: Breaking generational sins and curses Severing ungodly ties of the soul Replacing negative expectations Renouncing inner vows Receiving divine pictures/visions Casting out demons Experiencing the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus You¿ll thoroughly process one issue at a time, utilizing all these prayers. The "Contributing Strands Worksheet" will help you easily work through the prayers by yourself or with a counselor.