"Get on the Cart!" Wesleyan Discipleship in an Age of Endemic (Chapter 15 of Thinking Theologically About Mass Incarceration)

Authors

Benjamin Hartley, George Fox UniversityFollow
Glen Alton Messer II
Kirsten Sonkyo Oh

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

Excerpt: "Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said that the so,ul of society "can be measured by its prisons."1 If that is true, then the soul of society in the United States is sick. The statistics on mass incarceration provided elsewhere in this volume illustrate the endemic nature of the problem much like epidemiological data shows the occurrence of a disease, but the stories from prisoners and their families-which the three of us have heard and told-show even more poignantly the depth of the wounds caused by the tragedy of incarceration that defies Christian virtues in this country. We pray this chapter will be one of many applications of healing b<~Jlm to address this societal disease."

Comments

Originally published as chapter 15 of Thinking Theologically About Mass Incarceration, Edited by Antonios Kireopoulos, Mitzi J. Budde, and Matthew D. Lundberg, Paulist Press (2017).

ISBN: 978-08091-5372-5

http://www.paulistpress.com/Products/5372-5/thinking-theologically-about-mass-incarceration.aspx

Recommended Citation

Hartley, Benjamin; Messer, Glen Alton II; and Oh, Kirsten Sonkyo, ""Get on the Cart!" Wesleyan Discipleship in an Age of Endemic (Chapter 15 of Thinking Theologically About Mass Incarceration)" (2017). Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology. 297.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ccs/297