by Blog Admin | Dec 5, 2016 | Devotion, Guest Post
Grace and peace, My name is Lori (Rev. Lo.) Banfield, MTS and I am glad to announce that I have recently joined the board of Redemption Housing. As a Chaplain of Discipleship working with disenfranchised populations for over three years, I have had the pleasure to...
by Blog Admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Guest Post
I work as a mental health therapist at an agency around the corner from the Adult Probation and Parole Department in Philadelphia. It is not uncommon to arrive to work in the morning and find a line of folks stretching down the block as they wait to get in and meet...
by Blog Admin | Aug 10, 2016 | Guest Post
Did you think that Jim Crow ended in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act? Think again. Michelle Alexander argues in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness that racism is so pernicious that it doesn’t go away. It just changes form.In this book,...
by Blog Admin | Mar 28, 2016 | Guest Post
Last summer, I got a Facebook message from a relative of a family friend. Their daughter was locked up in a Philadelphia prison, and they wanted to know if I could host her for the night she got out and then put her on a bus back home. They assured me that she would...
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