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A Prayer for Those Sentenced to Die Behind Bars
O Merciful One, we ask that you send your tender mercies to men and women suffering unjustly in prisons for minor offenses.
Report: As of 2012, there were 3,278 prisoners serving sentences of li…
Mysteries and the Spiritual Sleuth
Remember Algebra class and "solving for x"? A puzzle. An Unknown. A math mystery. Turns out, math and the spiritual life are not so far apart. In fact, in the Alphabet of Spiritual Literacy, x is a …
A Prayer for When the Unthinkable Happens
On July 20, 2012, a few minutes into the midnight screening of the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman entered the theater, set off tear gas grenades, and then shot into…
A Prayer in Response to the Orlando Mass Shooting
Comforting God, we awoke this morning to news of the deadliest mass shooting on United States soil in modern history. Once again we are called to prayer and reflection about gun violence and hate cr…
"F" is for Forgiveness
"Forgiveness is the only way to free ourselves from the entrapment of the past."
— Richard Rohr
I was recently approached by a young mother who told me that she was having trouble with f…
A Prayer for the Victims of Domestic Violence
Shekinah, we ask for your guidance and direction to protect wives assaulted in their own homes by husbands and partners.
Fact: Serbia is in the grips of a domestic violence crisis: official figur…
A Civil Rights Issue: Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
In an article for alternet.org Chris Hedges examines the strong connections between being poor and going to prison in the United States. Of the 2.2 million people locked up at the moment, 97% of fed…
Skyrocketing Prison Population Devastating U.S. Society
On Commondreams.org Sarah Lazare shares the dire impact of four decades of massive imprisonments in the United States. This report by the National Research Council (an arm of the National Academy of…
Locked Up and Locked Out
On April 11, 2014, the New America Foundation held a program titled "Locked Up and Locked Out: Securing a Second Chance at Economic Citizenship for Ex-Offenders." Monica Potts was on a panel which r…