What is your perception of people who are in jail or who have been incarcerated? Naturally, they are not the kind you would desire to spend time with or engage in conversations. In fact, many people wish they had tags or marks on their foreheads to make them easily recognizable. It is not until you have read Naked as a Jailbird that it dawns on you that they have a human face and desires, just like you.
The author is Richard Shaw, a chaplain who has a responsibility to minister in prisons. However, for him it is more than a ministry. It is a calling that makes him different from all other chaplains who might be given the responsibility. Every minute spent with these incarcerated human beings points at a different experience about salvation, God and humanity.
According to Shaw, human beings consider prisoners as outcasts, criminals and people who walked behind bars with their eyes wide open. It is his encounters that paint a different picture of jail and the people behind bars. The book captures their journeys to the current situation and reasons why their incarceration will never be justified. This is also a reflection of the justice system and the role it is playing in rehabilitating these perceived criminals.
And how is prison life? Where is hope while the justice system has condemned you to life in prison? What is the role of religion in such a setting, a religion that preaches on forgiveness and repentance? These are deep philosophical questions that Richard seeks to explore in this book. The answers will surprise you just like some of the cases described in this book.
How about the ministers assigned to prisons? Is this a responsibility that everyone and anyone can take up? This question is tough to answer. There is a valley of difference in the people imprisoned and those roaming free. If a minister or worker is to find satisfaction and make prisoners to feel humane, it will take the Grace of God. Richard Shaw testifies to this.
The author questions the role played by prisons in the society and world today. They are supposed to be agents of change, yet this is not demonstrated in what one finds with imprisoned people. In fact, the writer points out that people change as soon as the reality strikes that they are imprisoned. However, they are never accorded the benefit of living the change outside. This makes prison a gate to eternal condemnation, an aspect that is not part of their foundation principle.
The choice of such words as naked points at a helpless situation. It leaves you thinking about the form of nakedness that people in prison experience. This is a place with no secrets. How does it affect the people who go in and how do they live? The book exposes what else these people are stripped of apart from their cloths.
This is a fast read title that will change your perspective about life in prison and the people behind bars. Your perspective of prisoners and prison life will never be the same. It also gives you a chance to look at those who work in the environment differently, based on the reality they encounter on daily basis.
The author is Richard Shaw, a chaplain who has a responsibility to minister in prisons. However, for him it is more than a ministry. It is a calling that makes him different from all other chaplains who might be given the responsibility. Every minute spent with these incarcerated human beings points at a different experience about salvation, God and humanity.
According to Shaw, human beings consider prisoners as outcasts, criminals and people who walked behind bars with their eyes wide open. It is his encounters that paint a different picture of jail and the people behind bars. The book captures their journeys to the current situation and reasons why their incarceration will never be justified. This is also a reflection of the justice system and the role it is playing in rehabilitating these perceived criminals.
And how is prison life? Where is hope while the justice system has condemned you to life in prison? What is the role of religion in such a setting, a religion that preaches on forgiveness and repentance? These are deep philosophical questions that Richard seeks to explore in this book. The answers will surprise you just like some of the cases described in this book.
How about the ministers assigned to prisons? Is this a responsibility that everyone and anyone can take up? This question is tough to answer. There is a valley of difference in the people imprisoned and those roaming free. If a minister or worker is to find satisfaction and make prisoners to feel humane, it will take the Grace of God. Richard Shaw testifies to this.
The author questions the role played by prisons in the society and world today. They are supposed to be agents of change, yet this is not demonstrated in what one finds with imprisoned people. In fact, the writer points out that people change as soon as the reality strikes that they are imprisoned. However, they are never accorded the benefit of living the change outside. This makes prison a gate to eternal condemnation, an aspect that is not part of their foundation principle.
The choice of such words as naked points at a helpless situation. It leaves you thinking about the form of nakedness that people in prison experience. This is a place with no secrets. How does it affect the people who go in and how do they live? The book exposes what else these people are stripped of apart from their cloths.
This is a fast read title that will change your perspective about life in prison and the people behind bars. Your perspective of prisoners and prison life will never be the same. It also gives you a chance to look at those who work in the environment differently, based on the reality they encounter on daily basis.
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