The question may seem silly to those of us for whom a college education was always part of our natural path to full adulthood. But many incarcerated people come from backgrounds of poverty, violence, and trauma. The kind of future-oriented imaginations that most of our traditional students grow up with are foreign to people whose […]
Monthly Archives: April 2021
The Prisoner’s Mite
The parable of the widow’s mite (Luke 21:1-4) is familiar to many. An impoverished widow contributes two small coins as an offering to the temple coffers. These coins represent a huge sacrifice for her. We can imagine her praying “Take all that I have, Lord, for all I have is yours.” The Hope-Western Prison Education […]
Why Visit The Prisoner?
(And what to bring when you do) On Good Friday we read in Isaiah: He was spurned and avoided by people,a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,one of those from whom people hide their faces,spurned, and we held him in no esteem… Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have thought any […]