back at the office today, listening to the gale force winds outside and revelling in the freedom that comes from not having looked too closely at my diary for the next few months… by memory it’s not a busy few months, event wise, and the plan is to focus heavily on worship in prison ……
i was invited to Channings Wood and Exeter Prisons last week to do some workshops with the men who are inside. Channings Wood is Cat C prison, which is medium-low security, Exeter is Cat B, which is medium-high security. In Exeter I was working with men who were in the Vulnerable Persons Unit, which is…
From the prison yesterday: The psalms of boredom are missing from the Bible… How long must I wait, God? Every day is the same Time seems to stand still It’s the same thing just on a different day Time goes by so slowly. How long must I wait, God? The days are marked only by…
I was back at Port Phillip prison yesterday, we were writing more psalms in worship. The men were overwhelmed by the comments people left last week. [welcome to their families who are reading these… You can see the Psalms that Phil and Alf wrote last week here]. These are the Psalms the men wrote yesterday.…
I was back at the prison today – the Marlborough Unit in Pt Philip, [maximum security, men with intellectual disabilities]. I was last there in February when we were writing statements of faith. Today we were writing psalms of lament. There were two men who came to worship today, Phil and Alf. A couple of…
this is the first affirmation of faith i’ve written for the men in the Marlborough Unit. It’s a little rough still. When we were talking on Thursday it became obvious that they weren’t at all comfortable with abstract expressions of faith. They liked that Jesus healed the lepers, they liked that he talked about justice…
cleaning up my desk… found this scrap of paper with stuff i wrote down from a visit in prison… thoughts from the men about faith. We believe there has to be more than one God. We believe if you pray to God, God will help you. We believe that god wants the best for you,…
