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Get Out of Jail Free: JUNKIE.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012. A policy I've adopted since I became a prison chaplain is that I don't allow prisoners to call a person who is addicted to drugs a "junkie". In the Chaplaincy area of the jail, I have always told them, different rules apply. Prisoners can swear and curse to their hearts' content in my presence and I don't tell them off, even though I don't like it personally. It's well known that if we label people with negative terms then their own sense of identity will be reinforced as being t...
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Get Out of Jail Free: Prisoners Week
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Monday, 19 November 2012. Somehow a whole year has gone by and we are at Prisoners Week again, or Prisons Week if you're in Englandshire. Here. Is the link to the Prisoners Week Scotland website if you want to know more. Credit to Jon Birch, the artist behind the cartoon. 25: 31-46. And elsewhere (Hebrews 13:3) we're told we've to remember those in prison as if we were in prison ourselves. Christians who read this might like to adopt our official Prisoners Week prayer. Say it every day this week if y...
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Get Out of Jail Free: Appealing Cartoon. :)
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Thursday, 15 May 2014. Appealing Cartoon. :). Ive recently come across your blog as Im interested in prison chaplaincy! I really like your blog and your creative reflections. 28 May 2014 at 10:26. CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD? On the Day of Pentecost Peter quoted the prophet Joel (Acts 2:21And it shall be that everyone who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.). Peter did not tell them to say the sinners prayer. What was Peters response to their question? 3 REPENTANCE: Make the commitment to tur...
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Get Out of Jail Free: Time Passes.
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Sunday, 23 February 2014. I started blogging to try to raise awareness of prisons and prisoners among any folk who cared to read my posts. Then I kept blogging because as well as that I was enjoying reading other people's blogs and felt like part of a community, whilst still hoping to do the aforementioned awareness raising. See someone reads your bleeterin quine. Twitter in particular has killed the art of blogging. I may have more time to join you soon in rekindling my love of the Blog. I s...Just foun...
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Get Out of Jail Free: The Ascension and Having the Full Picture..
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Monday, 21 May 2012. The Ascension and Having the Full Picture. It was lovely yesterday morning to conduct worship services in two rural Kinross-shire congregations, in beautiful settings on bright sunny days after the recent depressing weather. The people in both places were lovely, radiant in their faith. We were thinking about the Ascension of Jesus and all that it means to us. If you're not familiar with the story you can read it here. Thursday just past was Ascension Day (40 days after Easter).
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Get Out of Jail Free: The Giving Garden - a good news story for a change!
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Thursday, 31 May 2012. The Giving Garden - a good news story for a change! I want to tell y'all about my Totally-Brilliant-Afternoon. I was invited to attend the official opening of "The Giving Garden" and it's such an inspirational thing I want to share the joy. The vision, now on course for fulfilment, was for the waste ground to be made into a big allotment growing vegetables and fruit that could be donated to the food project. The first crop is now planted and the first harvest is anticipated wit...
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Get Out of Jail Free: Should I Wear a Clerical Collar?
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Thursday, 27 February 2014. Should I Wear a Clerical Collar? In this country, the majority of Christian prison chaplains of both Reformed and Roman Catholic traditions do not routinely wear the "dog collar" at work. I pretty much only wear mine if I'm to be involved in a memorial service or, as I did recently, I'm conducting a wedding. As an experiment, I'm going to start wearing my clerical collar one random day per week. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). GET OUT OF JAIL FREE. View my complete profile.
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Get Out of Jail Free: Faith Versus Doubt
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Sunday, 26 February 2012. Today I was reading the newspapers online, as I do. (I'm far too tight-fisted actually to buy a newspaper when you can get the news for free on the internet.). Anyway, I came across this article. Here is what struck me as I read about Richard Holloway's new book, and also as I read all the comments online:. Can sharing our doubts be self-indulgent sometimes? Is it helpful for the upbuilding of congregations and people we are called to lead? My own inclination is that part of bei...
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Get Out of Jail Free: Ask a Silly Question...
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Tuesday, 25 February 2014. Ask a Silly Question. Prisoners may spend the latter part of their sentence in open conditions where (under licence) they are able to come and go from the prison somewhat - home for short breaks to reestablish family relationships, for instance, or out to work placements to practise for holding down a job, or even to the supermarket to get used to budgeting and shopping again. To which he immediately gave the reply, "I'm in for murdering nosey bus drivers"! GET OUT OF JAIL FREE.
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Get Out of Jail Free: Prison Service, Military Service and Remembering.
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Saturday, 29 September 2012. Prison Service, Military Service and Remembering. The percentage of ex-forces prisoners in Scotland is on the rise. It is the same in other parts of the UK. Probably the rise is partly to do with the difficulty former soldiers often find in settling back into Civvy Street, especially those soldiers who've been traumatised by what they've seen, heard and done in warzones. Or making it be known during his sentence. Each establishment across the SPS estate now has a Veterans in ...
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