Underground Ministries
@undergroundmins
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We equip local communities to embrace men and women as they return from prison.
Skagit Valley, WA
Joined March 2020
This is the secret of my career and the founding of @undergroundmins: I connected with those I met in jail chaplaincy, as my loneliness met theirs. My despair and theirs became something different: wildly honest, tender, hilarious, holy. Now science sees: relationships heal.
NEW: Today, I released a Surgeon General's Advisory on the epidemic of loneliness and isolation facing our country, the destructive impacts it has on our collective health, and the extraordinary healing power of our relationships. https://t.co/P9RnZkLr6G
#Connect2Heal 1/8
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California fires: Landmark firefighting law sparks hope for people who were formerly incarcerated
mercurynews.com
“When they’re with us, they’re choosing to be better people for themselves, for their friends and family, for their community,” said Cari Chen, the forestry and fire recruitment program…
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Thanks as always to Scott Erickson for lending his evocative art to our work.
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Good Friday happens all the time with our friends who are arrested, who relapse. When the story and revolution we planned goes to shit. Read here: https://t.co/uQis2gSIXc
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This is what undergirds our One Parish One Prisoner reentry movement involving local congregations everywhere: “we imagine a world without prisons and then we try to create that world.”
undergroundministries.org
“We imagine a world without prisons and then we try to create that world.” Father Greg Boyle, founder of @HomeboyIndustries Last night Greg, Laura Miera, Christy, and Jeanette talked at Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and it was so good. Glad to be there. @practofthepres /1
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Modeling these relationships of trust and embrace expose the lie of the criminal legal system. This is what we seek to multiply, starting with prison letters then Reentry partnerships together.
In 1971, as part of a prisoner trustee program, then Governor of Georgia Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter hired Mary Prince to be their daughter’s nanny after she’d been convicted of manslaughter.
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A beautiful piece that calls bluff on the lockup system’s favorite myth:
i wrote about crime, why we always seem to think it's going up, and the beautiful world that's costing us.
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We got modifiable STICKERS coming soon. For all our Reentry teams—and countless others for whom this is true—to boldly celebrate these relationships. (Inspired by the beautiful pioneers at @NoExceptionsPr1 ). Learn more at https://t.co/FAcP2pDmLy
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These are the tender and harrowing stories that have pulled me and thousands more into relationship and Reentry work alongside the incarcerated:
In prison, I had a cellmate who couldn't get medical treatment. He died in the cell with me. A thread...
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Underground Ministries is helping small communities crack open the gates of Hades—prison system—one Reentry friendship at a time. Join us: https://t.co/AAkYXkv8nK
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One Parish One Prisoner from @undergroundmins is an amazing opportunity for churches to participate in resurrection work.
One Parish One Prisoner ministry connects churches with incarcerated friends in Washington state. Teri McDowell Ott interviews church members about their experience of faithful connections with incarcerated persons. https://t.co/CkbF9uCUf2
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Excited to share my cover story for the @presoutlook this month—about our work in WA mobilizing churches to practice a resurrection ethic through prison Reentry relationships. https://t.co/Q8wfNG4L1y.
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Hugs for thugs. Prison Reentry. Worlds colliding. Humor and healing. Looks proper after the first ep! Watch @ThisFoolHulu with us at Underground Ministries.
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Just finished editing the transcript from my second interview with @ChrisHoker of @undergroundmins for Radix Magazine. It is the highlight of all my interviews so far. Cannot wait to share it soon!
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We are constantly inspired by the men and women we get to work with who are leaving prison—and leaving behind their old violence, forsaking their guns, asking for help to learn a new way. The formerly incarcerated are way out in front. They can lead us into the future.
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2.2 million people – parents, children, siblings, friends – are locked up. Lisa Guenther describes the “social death” of incarceration. So Good Friday and Holy Saturday are every day in America. The tombs are full. We need a resurrection movement:
pres-outlook.org
Chris Hoke calls readers to recover the original vision of Easter in an age of mass incarceration.
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I wrote a feature piece for @presoutlook on Easter, the Abolition of Hell, and how we can practice that Resurrection everywhere via prison Reentry work. Right on time for the heart of Holy Week:
pres-outlook.org
Chris Hoke calls readers to recover the original vision of Easter in an age of mass incarceration.
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Totally gonna use this in our One Parish One Prisoner Kickoff Orientation. This sums up the entire thing. Half our work is helping disarm community folks from the pressure of the left column, with permission to relax into the right—in relationship with their releasing friend.
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