My transfer to another prison came unexpectedly. I had no idea where I was going. Leg shackles were cuffed to my ankles before I climbed on board the bus. They hurt and made the four-hour trip even more uncomfortable. This was not my first bus ride or my last …
At the heart of one of Paul’s best-known theological formulations describing Christian conversion is a summons to a “ministry of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18). This passage represents perhaps the earliest New Testament articulation of the vocation of restorative justice and peacemaking …
“The Bible preaches against retirement,” Tony Campolo once said. He noted that Jesus even told a parable about a man who planned to retire on his accumulations and busied
himself by building bigger barns to protect his property …