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Author: Imelda Wickham Publisher: Messenger Publications ISBN: 1788123395 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 127
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This book is an attempt by the author to give us a brief human insight into life behind bars in one of our penal institutions. It is written from the perspective of someone who has walked the walk with the prisoner for twenty years and now questions the effectiveness of our criminal justice system. She is an advocate for a Restorative Justice System and sees this model as the way forward. She argues that true justice lies in healing for all involved in criminal behaviour, including victim, perpetrator and society. The second part of the book hears the voices of the prisoners in emotionally charged reflections on the reality of life within a prison cell. The author challenges the use of prisons to deal with addictions, mental health issues and homelessness.Where prisons are needed, as they are for a small cohort of people, they should be open institutions dedicated to rehabilitation based on the needs of the individual and on societal needs of the time.
Author: Imelda Wickham Publisher: Messenger Publications ISBN: 1788123395 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 127
Book Description
This book is an attempt by the author to give us a brief human insight into life behind bars in one of our penal institutions. It is written from the perspective of someone who has walked the walk with the prisoner for twenty years and now questions the effectiveness of our criminal justice system. She is an advocate for a Restorative Justice System and sees this model as the way forward. She argues that true justice lies in healing for all involved in criminal behaviour, including victim, perpetrator and society. The second part of the book hears the voices of the prisoners in emotionally charged reflections on the reality of life within a prison cell. The author challenges the use of prisons to deal with addictions, mental health issues and homelessness.Where prisons are needed, as they are for a small cohort of people, they should be open institutions dedicated to rehabilitation based on the needs of the individual and on societal needs of the time.
Author: Donald Stoesz Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1770671803 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 186
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"Glimpses of Grace" relates the joys and challenges of a prison chaplain through a series of one-page vignettes. The open-ended stories are written with a pastor's heart that seeks to minister to the needs and hopes of offenders who have committed serious crimes. The book takes the reader from opportunities of pastoral care to issues of relationships, authority, and restorative justice. The author explores the challenges of ecumenism and inter-faith dialogue while remaining true to his Christian faith. He looks at ministry from the perspective of volunteers and writes about how staff can be an ally in corrections. He regards offenders as subjects who define the nature of the pastoral relationship. Donald's high view of ecclesiology and solid theological background give this book a unique perspective. Don regards the chapel community as a natural extension of the visible body of Jesus Christ of which the larger church is a part. Don considers how offenders' experiences and other faiths can make one a more devout believer. The profound experiences of the "other" make one look more deeply into the resources of one's own faith....
Author: Jerry Welborn Publisher: ISBN: 9781091888562 Category : Languages : en Pages : 180
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The major theme in Reflections of a Prison Chaplain addresses the unexpected. These uncanny experiences concern the importance of human subjectivity. If glimpsed, these moments can be transforming; they take into account imagination and the power of imagination that drives our choices.Entering into the executions of Sedley Alley and Cecil Johnson is to experience a place where, at first, you think that there is no way out. Moving through the maze we discovered threads, objective threads or crumbs, that suggested a way out: Sedley Alley's dream, a skunk, a pigeon, a football game, a phone call, a rejection, a winning touchdown and finally, the faith of an inmate.People recognize this thread but keep it at a distance. An administrative captain, most likely the executioner, who smells the skunk in prison air after the execution of Sedley Alley catches the thread, but lets it go. There is the woman who participates in an execution and loses her baby or the man who goes into the death chamber alone to work on the sound system and falls through the ceiling. This employee hangs upside down just long enough to lose his sight. "Urban legends are not real threads," so it is said. "Such legends are turns of a collective imagination gone amok."Events that come together in an uncanny fashion beg the question: "What does one do with such experiences?" Do you call in a coincidence squad to identify it as such and then move on? What one does with that event or experience is a subjective move.An important task in life is acquiring the wisdom, the skill and the ability to discern right from wrong and have the courage act on it. This is a subjective move. This move is a choice. It is at the heart of a narrative adventure. It is also at the heart of Christian faith.
Author: Donald Stoesz Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 152557244X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 336
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The manual provides a rationale for chaplaincy by using Winnifred Sullivan's three categories of religious secularism, irreligious secularism, and areligious secularism to outline the essential and transforming value of spiritual care services (preface, introduction). The manual provides a history of justice initiatives and chaplaincy services in a Canadian context (chapters one and two). The manual provides a rationale for spiritual care-giver training by showing how chaplaincy courses at a university level can build on the competencies of leadership and core knowledge that many ministers, rabbis, imams, priests, nuns, and other faith group representatives have. Emotional intelligence, professional practice skills, and diversity are additional competencies needed for spiritual care-givers to become effective prison chaplains (chapters three to six). Six principles shape the content of this book: (1) integration of chaplaincy into corrections (chapters three to six) (2) understanding of prison dynamics (chapters seven to ten), (3) complementary use of sociology and psychology (chapters eleven to fourteen), (4) provision of faith formation, rites and rituals, programs, pastoral care, and a ministry of presence (chapters fifteen to eighteen), (5) ecumenical and multi-faith religious accommodation (chapters nineteen to twenty-one) and (6) professional development (chapters twenty-four and twenty-five). The manual concludes with a statement of best practices by Dr. Thomas Beckner, long-time chaplaincy educator (Correctional Chaplains: Keepers of the Cloak, p. 24). "Chaplains are to have highly polished counselling skills, strong management and facilitation abilities, a working knowledge of various faith group requirements . . . and a strong commitment to serve all residents of the institution regardless of their faith identity or lack thereof."
Author: Donald Stoesz Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525556002 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 87
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This book is a direct response to the two most frequently asked questions that I receive as a prison chaplain: Are offenders remorseful for what they have done? Is it possible for them to change? While the answer to the first question is often a resounding Yes!, this does not mean that it is always possible for inmates to change. Some of them find it too difficult, too much sacrifice, too much work. Others are willingly to make the long journey toward healing and wholeness. The intractability of Tom Riddle in the Harry Potter series is used to look at the challenges of feeling remorse. The story of Jean Valjean details the journey from remorse to forgiveness, from grace to justification, from being reborn to becoming sanctified, from becoming holy to learning how to love. Jesus’ remarks that “he can lay down his life and take it up again” is used to develop a stronger theology of the will. The divine and human will are ever present in enabling change to occur. The sacrificial example of Saint Francis of Assisi shows how voluntary poverty, chastity, and obedience are necessary ingredients in becoming spiritually whole. The book concludes with a reflection on Dismas, the first Christian martyr.
Author: Rosie Deedes Publisher: Sacristy Press ISBN: 1789590329 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 188
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Drawing on her experience of chaplaincy in prison, hospice and university contexts, Rosie Deedes reflects on the nature of good pastoral care and chaplaincy as a model of ministry for our time.
Author: Ryan van Eijk Publisher: Wolf Legal Publishers ISBN: 9789462403307 Category : Languages : en Pages : 382
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Publications on an international level that address prison chaplaincy from different (continental and disciplinary) angles are rare. Most publications regarding prison chaplaincy are monographies by theologians or prison chaplains, or books from (ex-)inmates witnessing their personal conversion. For Justice and Mercy offers international texts on the positioning of prison chaplaincy and examples from the praxis, as well as from several contexts and concepts. The publication is international, with contributions from academics and experienced prison chaplains from all continents. They offer their research and reflections from different scientific disciplines on aspects which are of interest for prison chaplaincy in general. However, the focus is not exclusively on global perspectives. Most articles are written from the Catholic point of view. The reason is that the initiative for this publication was taken by the executive board of the International Commission of Catholic Pastoral Care (ICCPPC) to pay extra attention to its 65 years existence, and to the Year of Mercy. [Subject: Human Rights Law, Theological Studies]
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