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Escaping Religion Prison

Author : Brian Strubhar
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Religion Prison written by Brian Strubhar and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a testimony to what I went through for nearly 35 years of my life. I have seen and witnessed hundreds of others struggling with many of these same things. My title: "Escaping Religion Prison" is not only me sharing what I experienced, but also what I've heard from others whom I have personally interviewed, or heard when they shared their story. I am not here to say that all religion is a terrible thing, but a religion in itself won't save you, or anyone else for that matter. I have found a completely new freedom in my relationship with Jesus, and have experienced a new peace as I have traveled this journey from deception to clear vision, and from religious bondage to complete spiritual freedom. I will do my best to convey what I have seen and heard. So please be patient with me as there is a lot to share. I am also going to share some of the disgusting parts of religion and its major cover-up of the abuses which often go on behind the scenes in religious circles. I also want to point out that this isn't all-inclusive as you wouldn't want a massive 6000-page manual to read. So I am going to try to be somewhat brief, yet cover in detail what I have personally seen and heard. In the first half of this book, I am going to share the abuses I see in the church. One of the biggest problems in the church today is how religion and church standards are often emphasized and taught over a relationship with the one who can redeem us. You see, religion isn't what saves one's soul. If you believe that the church you attend, or the preacher or leader you follow, is the only right one, or that he has a special edge on scripture and its interpretation, you might find that this book will challenge the way you think. This is a great book for discussion among church leadership, as it's much better to have a plan before a situation happens.

Escaping Your Prison

Author : Isaac Segun-Abugan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943282135
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Your Prison written by Isaac Segun-Abugan and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel trapped in life? Do you live in persistent doubt of your ability to breakthrough? Do you live in constant anticipation of failure, accident, death, sickness or fear of what you don't know? If your answer is yes to any of these, Escaping Your Prison was inspired by the Holy Spirit as your way of escape. In this book, you will encounter some truths that will set you free from the bondage of fear.¿Fear is neither physiological or natural, or a problem of feelings: ¿it is a spiritual affliction. It is an assault of the devil against the minds of its victims. Fear imprisons someone within himself or herself. Fear can paralyze the greatest potential of any unsuspecting believer. If you don't stop it, it will stop you from experiencing the fullness of your colorful destiny. Satan's plan is to try to make you believe in a non-existing cloud of lies contrary to the knowledge of God and to blindfold you from seeing the treasures of God in your life.¿The solution to spiritual diseases are not natural remedies. Through the help of the Holy Spirit, the revelation shared in this book will expose the strategy - and weakness - of Satan and his efforts to stop you from establishing your dominion in life.¿There are more working in your favor than those working against. God is on your side!

Down in the Chapel

Author : Joshua Dubler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146683711X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Down in the Chapel written by Joshua Dubler and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears. Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all. When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.

The Prisoner's Escape Manual

Author : Steve Cleckler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639036264
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner's Escape Manual written by Steve Cleckler and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you sometimes feel like a prisoner? Do you long to be free? Well, if so, you are not alone. We all feel this way from time to time. The truth is, you do not have to be incarcerated behind prison walls and bars of iron to be a prisoner. You might be a prisoner of feeling that there is a great distance between you and your Creator. You might be a prisoner of feeling that you have no purpose and wondering if God really cares and has a plan for you. You might be a prisoner of feeling that you are just living out religion without a real sense of relationship with God. The truth is, spiritual bondage comes in many forms. This book is about escaping spiritual bondage. It is designed to help you see that you were not an accident. You were created in God's image. You have a destiny designed by Him. He has made all the provisions needed to experience relationship and fellowship with Him. This book is about finding a scriptural way out of spiritual bondage. It is about finding spiritual freedom even in the grips of earthly captivity. This type of escape, this type of true freedom, can only be found in Jesus the Christ. Jesus said He came to set the captive free. Do you want to know His freedom? Read and apply The Prisoner's Escape Manual.

Escape Prisons of the Mind

Author : Kaziah May Hancock
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1636613608
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Escape Prisons of the Mind written by Kaziah May Hancock and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape Prisons of the Mind By: Kaziah May Hancock Let me take you by the hand to walk with me down a dark, rocky road as I go thru the school of hard knocks, where only the strong survive. Of course I use colorful language, who wouldn't? Hell, polygamy itself is a kick in the gut. The powerful story that follows is that of an unscrupulous man using religious compulsion in the extreme, to subject and exploit other human beings for his own personal gain. By adding a word where it was convenient and subtracting words so as to give scriptures a whole new meaning, then claiming priesthood power and rights, he locked naïve victims into a trap. Preach long enough, loud enough, often enough and they will begin to believe it. Control the environment. Do not allow your subjects to have outside communication, then capitalize on their labors. And what do you have? Prisons of the Mind. © This is a revised and extended version of that, my first book, now to include the rest of my life after I escaped. It is a true story of survival you will never forget. Oh, and by the way, the people involved in this story were part of the polygamist group eventually led by the child molester Warren Jeffs, who is in prison. I am now a Christian, a recipient of the goodness and grace of God, the God that is GOD. I changed some names to protect the children. The contents are for mature adults only. If you have heard my name, it may be from a news clip on KARE 11 News out of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2006 about where I, as an artist, began painting oil portraits of our Fallen Soldiers. I send the paintings to the families as a free gift. What they don’t know is the oppression I have endured and why my freedom means more to me than life itself.

Escape to Prison

Author : Michael Welch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286154
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Escape to Prison written by Michael Welch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the attention of tourists along with scholars interested in studying what is known as dark tourism. Unsurprisingly, due to their grim subject matter, prison museums tend to invert the ÒDisneylandÓ experience, becoming the antithesis of Òthe happiest place on earth.Ó In Escape to Prison, the culmination of years of international research, noted criminologist Michael Welch explores ten prison museums on six continents, examining the complex interplay between culture and punishment. From Alcatraz to the Argentine Penitentiary, museums constructed on the former locations of surveillance, torture, colonial control, and even rehabilitation tell unique tales about the economic, political, religious, and scientific roots of each siteÕs historical relationship to punishment.

Down in the Chapel

Author : Joshua Dubler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146683711X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Escaping from the Prisons Within

Author : Rogelio Cuesta
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 160647037X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Escaping from the Prisons Within written by Rogelio Cuesta and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping from the prisons within: Ethics as a process of liberation This book is a pioneer in its field: for the first time a book and guide is designed for the incarcerated population. At the same time, it offers and proposes a moral component for not only academic programs but rehabilitation and self help as well. The author proposes a moral therapy as a necessary resource in the process of being and becoming more human. It deals with a humanizing vision of ethics, as it tries to rescue positive and therapeutic elements that are at the core of the human soul. Escaping from the prisons within: Ethics as a process of liberation, aims to incorporate a vital dimension that is missing in our programming to inmates: the ethical component or moral therapy. This therapy assists the reader in escaping from some of our interior prisons: mind, heart, time and environment. Given the strong undercurrent of philosophy and humanistics, the text incites and invites a profound reflection and personal response. By this approach, ethics awaken and nourish not only the thinking man, but especially the doer, the active man, as he becomes aware of the supreme effort and sublime pathway toward self-liberation. Rogelio Cuesta Fernndez was born in Spain. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from the University of Santo Toms in Rome, and a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from New York University. He has extensive experience teaching the humanities and Theology in Europe as well as in the United States. In addition, the author taught for 23 years for the Department of Corrections in a maximum-security facility in New York State.

God in Captivity

Author : Tanya Erzen
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807089990
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book God in Captivity written by Tanya Erzen and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United States It is by now well known that the United States’ incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state and federal prisons are increasingly relying on religious organizations to provide educational and mental health services and to help maintain order. And these religious organizations are overwhelmingly run by nondenominational Protestant Christians who see prisoners as captive audiences. Some twenty thousand of these Evangelical Christian volunteers now run educational programs in over three hundred US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Prison seminary programs are flourishing in states as diverse as Texas and Tennessee, California and Illinois, and almost half of the federal prisons operate or are developing faith-based residential programs. Tanya Erzen gained inside access to many of these programs, spending time with prisoners, wardens, and members of faith-based ministries in six states, at both male and female penitentiaries, to better understand both the nature of these ministries and their effects. What she discovered raises questions about how these ministries and the people who live in prison grapple with the meaning of punishment and redemption, as well as what legal and ethical issues emerge when conservative Christians are the main and sometimes only outside forces in a prison system that no longer offers even the pretense of rehabilitation. Yet Erzen also shows how prison ministries make undeniably positive impacts on the lives of many prisoners: men and women who have no hope of ever leaving prison can achieve personal growth, a sense of community, and a degree of liberation within the confines of their cells. With both empathy and a critical eye, God in Captivity grapples with the questions of how faith-based programs serve the punitive regime of the prison, becoming a method of control behind bars even as prisoners use them as a lifeline for self-transformation and dignity.

Escaping Satan's Prison

Author : Frank Marzullo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892363138
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Satan's Prison written by Frank Marzullo and published by . This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Incarcerated

Author : Cecelia Martin
Publisher : Trilogy Christian Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781685565978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Incarcerated written by Cecelia Martin and published by Trilogy Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are not a prisoner of your past! In this true story, follow a daughter longing for her father's love. Will she accept there is no earthly substitute that can fill the void of her father's embrace? How will she grab on to hope while facing her own inner turmoil? Most importantly, how does she escape the prison of her own mind to gain the right answers? Recount a family navigating through life only to discover peace on the same dark road where it had been taken. Find your escape to freedom through this journey of forgiveness, healing, and grace.

Writing My Wrongs

Author : Shaka Senghor
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1101907312
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Writing My Wrongs written by Shaka Senghor and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age eleven, his parents’ marriage began to unravel, and beatings from his mother worsened, which sent him on a downward spiral. He ran away from home, turned to drug dealing to survive, and ended up in prison for murder at the age of nineteen, full of anger and despair. Writing My Wrongs is the story of what came next. During his nineteen-year incarceration, seven of which were spent in solitary confinement, Senghor discovered literature, meditation, self-examination, and the kindness of others—tools he used to confront the demons of his past, forgive the people who hurt him, and begin atoning for the wrongs he had committed. Upon his release at age thirty-eight, Senghor became an activist and mentor to young men and women facing circumstances like his. His work in the community and the courage to share his story led him to fellowships at the MIT Media Lab and the Kellogg Foundation and invitations to speak at events like TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival. In equal turns, Writing My Wrongs is a page-turning portrait of life in the shadow of poverty, violence, and fear; an unforgettable story of redemption; and a compelling witness to our country’s need for rethinking its approach to crime, prison, and the men and women sent there.

Escaping the Prison of Fear

Author : Scott Lynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971423107
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Escaping the Prison of Fear written by Scott Lynn and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Enforcing Religious Freedom in Prison

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Enforcing Religious Freedom in Prison written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Executive summary: This report focuses on the government's efforts to enforce federal civil rights laws prohibiting religious discrimination in the administration and management of federal and state prisons. Prisoners in federal and state institutions retain certain religious exercise rights under the Constitution and statutes including the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUPIPA), the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and the Civil rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). Many states have similar provisions in their state constitutions and in state law modeled on RFRA. These rights must be balanced with the legitimate concerns of prisons officials, including cost, staffing, and most importantly, prison safety and security. Reconciling these rights and concerns can be a significant challenge for penal institutions, as well as courts.

Escape to Prison

Author : Michael Welch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961501
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Escape to Prison written by Michael Welch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the attention of tourists along with scholars interested in studying what is known as dark tourism. Unsurprisingly, due to their grim subject matter, prison museums tend to invert the "Disneyland" experience, becoming the antithesis of "the happiest place on earth." In Escape to Prison, the culmination of years of international research, noted criminologist Michael Welch explores ten prison museums on six continents, examining the complex interplay between culture and punishment. From Alcatraz to the Argentine Penitentiary, museums constructed on the former locations of surveillance, torture, colonial control, and even rehabilitation tell unique tales about the economic, political, religious, and scientific roots of each site’s historical relationship to punishment.

Through Prison Doors

Author : STANLEY M. MYERS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478757429
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Through Prison Doors written by STANLEY M. MYERS and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you were suddenly faced with the loss of your identity, the loss of friends and close family relationships, the complete loss of freedom and control over your own affairs and the loss of all of your previously devised future plans in a single moment? How would you react to such horrendous losses? In "Through Prison Doors," the author describes a similar scenario, involving the true life experiences surrounding his conviction, sentencing, incarceration, time spent in prison and miraculous release, in spite of a supposed life sentence. He details the spectacular ways in which God's Word became alive in his life, and the lives of other inmates, as well as some of the supernatural acts which God used to provide, protect, guide and prepare him for a future which, in the minds of many, he would never see. The author discloses how God clearly spoke to him through a dream, how God restored lost memories from his past, how God grew the prison Church by more than five-fold in a relatively short period of time, how God restrained him from escaping, even when confronted with opportunities to do so, and how God directed his steps down a particular path which would lead to his eventual release. "Through Prison Doors," focuses on the ability and desire of God to draw his children closer to Him by shining a light into the dark, often sinister world of prison life and by using His Word and His loving touch to transform the lives of ordinary people, no matter where they may be. The book is accompanied by an Appendix containing "Questions for Contemplation and/or Discussion," designed to challenge the thinking of individual readers or to be used in a small group setting. This book is a must-read for those who are incarcerated and their families, former inmates, prison Chaplains and Librarians, those currently involved in Prison Ministry and Outreach and those who are thinking about becoming involved.

Prison Religion

Author : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152535
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Prison Religion written by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at least appear to? What do "faith-based" prison programs mean for the constitutional separation of church and state, particularly when prisoners who participate get special privileges? In Prison Religion, law and religion scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan takes up these and other important questions through a close examination of a 2005 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a faith-based residential rehabilitation program in an Iowa state prison. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State v. Prison Fellowship Ministries, a trial in which Sullivan served as an expert witness, centered on the constitutionality of allowing religious organizations to operate programs in state-run facilities. Using the trial as a case study, Sullivan argues that separation of church and state is no longer possible. Religious authority has shifted from institutions to individuals, making it difficult to define religion, let alone disentangle it from the state. Prison Religion casts new light on church-state law, the debate over government-funded faith-based programs, and the predicament of prisoners who have precious little choice about what kind of rehabilitation they receive, if they are offered any at all.