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    • Authors

  • Abu Ali
  • Bryan Bell
  • Darrell W. Maness
  • Elrico Fowler
  • George Wilkerson
  • James Jaynes
  • James Thomas
  • Leroy Mann
  • Lyle May
  • Paul Brown
  • Rodney Taylor, Sr.
  • Timothy White

    • Collections

  • Call & Response
  • Call & Response: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
  • General submissions
  • Mothers' Day
  • Prologue
  • Uncategorized
  • Worship resources

    • Date

  • October 2018
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  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016

    • Title

  • #98 ‘Tough on crime’ policies endanger the public
  • #105 A bucket of chicken
  • #37 A message for Mothers’ Day
  • #3 All that matters
  • #80 Amazing grace
  • #78 Anti-Catholic sentiment as public safety
  • #14 At the zoo, on display
  • #7 Bad men
  • #91 Beyond the wall (part 1)
  • #92 Beyond the wall (part 2)
  • #6 Blood on my sleeves
  • #101 Breaking news
  • #13 Breaking the silence
  • #69 Bringing in the new year
  • #24 Caged canaries
  • #103 Carrying my side of the plexiglass
  • #27 Closure
  • #75 Contradictions
  • #102 Conversation with a dear friend
  • #42 Dad
  • #67 Dance to the flame
  • #96 Demons in the grave
  • #30 Disquieted
  • #76 Do you love your friends?
  • #63 Domesticated
  • #79 Down in the river to pray
  • #84 Easy doesn’t come easy
  • #60 Fear of acceptance
  • #26 Fine dining in prison
  • #77 For freedom
  • #12 Freedom is
  • #40 Friendship
  • #82 Game day
  • #17 Give me a sign
  • #25 Hanging in the jar life
  • #32 Highrise, part one
  • #33 Highrise, part two
  • #73 Hope
  • #97 How do you see yourself
  • #81 How great thou art
  • #4 Hugs
  • #72 Hypertension
  • #89 In your eyes
  • #94 Insane world
  • #48 Inside of outside
  • #64 Invest in rehabilitation, not punishment
  • #99 Judicial pantomime
  • #41 Learning process
  • #62 Leaving Eden
  • #1 Life Lines
  • #87 Mama
  • #52 Marching orders
  • #23 Me and mine
  • #50 My son
  • #18 O Christmas tree
  • #38 One quiet breath
  • #28 Pantoum of the forgotten prisoner
  • #43 Pawn sacrifice
  • #16 Pilgrimage
  • #44 Potential to evolve
  • #10 Prison is time
  • #83 Reality check
  • #90 Refusing to die
  • #19 Release
  • #22 Shelf life
  • #61 Small windows
  • #95 Sorry that I let you down
  • #36 Spaced out
  • #104 Story of mine
  • #86 Supervision failures
  • #85 Synthesizing freedom
  • #74 Talking to my mom in autumn
  • #21 Talking to myself
  • #2 Ten cent a minute
  • #54 The darkness of nights past
  • #34 The elephant in the room
  • #39 The garage
  • #66 The gift of song
  • #53 The great American eclipse 2017
  • #58 The last lifeline
  • #68 The longest night
  • #45 The noisy blanket
  • #55 The plan
  • #57 The right to remain silent
  • #100 The timestretcher
  • #47 The tombs
  • #88 The weather
  • #29 The wind
  • #31 They took my baby away
  • #46 This is us
  • #11 This place
  • #20 Three Shifts of an Eleventh Hour
  • #51 Through the fog
  • #56 To shine, beat the sun up
  • #15 Trumped
  • #9 Twenty years
  • #8 Undead: voices from the grave
  • #35 What now?
  • #59 When I look
  • #93 When killers cry
  • #71 When You Look at Me
  • #65 Where does it end?
  • #5 Who am I
  • #49 You are
  • #70 You Have No Idea

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