by Scott | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Grace and peace, Here at Redemption Housing we are in the business of dignity restoration through the practice of sacred neighboring with returning citizens. There would be no neighboring without you! So, I would like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to our...
by Scott | Aug 29, 2020 | Guest Post
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Dianne Faust, who served as an intern in summer 2020 under a fellowship from Sacred Sector, which supports emerging leaders in the faith-based non-profit sector. Dianne applied training from Sacred Sector to help us...
by Scott | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Grace and peace Redemption Housing community, As Philadelphia strives to limit the impact of COVID-19 in our city, we are all facing uncertainty, hard decisions, and unprecedented changes to our daily lives. We want to be sensitive to everyone’s needs at this...
by Nick Lordi | Aug 28, 2017 | Word from the Directors
Redemption Housing was recently awarded a modest grant, providing the funding to launch the Next Level Program! Because it is often difficult for returning citizens to earn a living wage, even when they are doing everything right, they might find themselves struggling...
by Nick Lordi | Jul 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Redemption Housing partners with the Quaker City Coffee Company to reduce recidivism in Philadelphia. From now until September 15th, for every purchase made through their online store, Quaker City Coffee will donate $1 to Redemption Housing. Make your coffee...
by Nick Lordi | Jun 14, 2017 | Word from the Directors
Each year, as many as 35,000 people return to Philadelphia from incarceration, often struggling with the same question: “What now?” Returning citizens face a lifetime of barriers, but the first few days and weeks are particularly daunting. They are released from...
by Blog Admin | May 11, 2017 | Word from the Directors
“Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father...
by Blog Admin | May 4, 2017 | Pastor's Blog
While Christian saints found spirituality in isolation, forced isolation, or solitary confinement, is torture. The world is a pretty distracting place, isn’t it? All the commotion of everyday life can make it extremely hard to quiet your mind and meditate on God....
by Blog Admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Devotion
At times I make the mistake of seeing those in need as somehow less than or as “others.” I can acknowledge my place of privilege and, in that privilege, it can be easy to offer help to the poor or to the oppressed out of pity. During this Easter season, I have been...
by Nick Lordi | Apr 6, 2017 | Video
Cory Booker shares the reality of our mass incarceration crisis. While our nation is home to 5 percent of the worlds’ population, we house 25 percent of its prisoners. The federal prison population has increased by over 800% in the last 30 years. Don’t you think...
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