Tag: mass incarceration
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The Blessing is Outside your Comfort Zone
“The blessing is outside your comfort zone.” I recently heard this quote on a podcast about the spiritual practice of running. But this truth extends beyond the topic of physical exercise. A month ago, I was escorted to a classroom in the men’s maximum-security prison twenty minutes from my home. I was there to teach […]
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Visiting the Prisoner
Two Sundays ago, I preached for my alma mater’s homecoming worship service. In this sermon I talked about how Christ calls us to people and places outside our spaces of affluence and comfort, to those who are invisible and insignificant in society, to those we would not think to go to ourselves if there were […]
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In Need of Jubilee: Reflecting on Mass Incarceration
By 7:30am, my six students and I were on our first of two buses that would take us across town to the southeast neighborhood of Washington, D.C. We were proud of ourselves for catching the right buses and making the hour and fifteen minute commute successfully. No small feat for anyone trying to get to […]
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Protecting our Hopefulness
I just returned from a trip to Washington DC where six students and I studied the issue of mass incarceration. I will write more about this trip soon, but for now I just want to highlight the inspiring work of Bryan Stevenson. Stevenson is a lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice […]
Teri McDowell Ott 