A special message from our Director on COVID-19

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...

We have a house! We need your help!

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...

Buy Coffee: Support Redemption Housing.

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...

Knock, Knock, (THIS IS NOT A) Joke!

“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...
The Consolation of Easter

The Consolation of Easter

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...

Explaining The Mass Incarceration Crisis

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...