It took me 4 days to read this book. A book about Ivan as he serves a 10 years sentence for being a spy in a Russian gulag. It is here where the theme of authoritative oppression is an everyday fact as the inmates try to survive in a cruel, spiteful, violent environment.
The prisoners [...]
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A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Solzhenitsyn
Posted in Books, Politics, Prison, Reading on Monday, November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Something special – a prayer for Prison
Posted in Chaplaincy, Christ, Christianity, Christology, Compassion, Conflict, Emergent, Emerging, Freedom, Good Theology, Holiness, Liturgy, Prayer, Prison, Reconciliation, Restoration on Thursday, October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have used this prayer – excellent and real!!
http://holdthisspace.org.au/prison-chaplains-workshop/
This is a holy space and a sacred time. Not because god is here in any special way – God is no different in this place to anywhere else – but because [...]
Some ramblings from me…. thoughts etc.
Posted in Armed Forces, Chaplaincy, Prison, Royal Air Force on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is it that we want from life? Over the years, I have often worked towards attaining something. Very rarely has that something been anything other than material things… money for gifts, items that were for the house, a car that either needed repairing or replacing and things like that.
I am now 47 years of [...]
RAF Result – not good…
Posted in Chaplaincy, Personal, Prison, RAF on Monday, October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yes folks, the letter arrived with a decision I didn’t want. I have not managed to get into the RAF as a Commissioned Officer to be a Chaplain. Having said that, I have been invited to attend again, pending the decision regarding me being diagnosed with the earliest stages of Glaucoma. I have been given [...]
Nobel laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another year and a half in detention
Posted in Burma, Compassion, Ethics, Integrity, Politics, Prison, Unity, Violence on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced today, but it’s the Burmese generals who jailed her who have committed the real crimes. Join the call for justice for the Burmese people by signing the petition to put the generals on trial.
Dear friends, Today, the ailing Nobel laureate and democracy icon Aung San [...]
Loving an angry God…
Posted in Angry, Christianity, Compassion, Prison on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an excellent article which reflects so much in society regarding crime, criminals and prison…..http://fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/loving-an-angry-god/
I am both opposed to theological systems that have at their heart an angry, wrathful God whose justice much be satisfied – but I am also understanding of those who, having been raised or nurtured in pious settings, take theHoly [...]
God in unexpected places….
Posted in Altruism, Christ, Christianity, Compassion, Institution, Personal, Prison, Unity on Sunday, August 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have had to think very carefully about this article before I put it into words.. You don’t expect some things in the world that we live in dominated by selfishness, the ‘I want now’ society and the ‘get what you can, while you can’ overthrow from the Maggie years. So here goes…
A couple of [...]
Sex change inmate seeks prison move
Posted in Gender, Prison on Monday, July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape committed while she was a man has claimed the refusal to move her to a women’s prison is a violation of her human rights.
The inmate, who can only be identified as Prisoner A, was described by her lawyer in the High Court as “a woman [...]
Sinners, all of us…
Posted in Christianity, Prison, Theology, Unity on Friday, July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://annedroid-annedroid.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-came-across-this-quote-from-eugene.html
I came across this quote from Eugene Peterson on a forum today and I think it’s so good I’ll nick it and post it here: "The churches of the revelation show us that Churches are not Victorian parlours where everything is picked up and ready for guests. They are messy family [...]
