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.
Richard Shaw is a chaplain who has to take the Word of God to prisoners. This might appear like a responsibility of chaplains and therefore a duty that must be performed, regardless of prevailing circumstances. However, there is more to ministering and spending time with prisoners than just talking about God and his salvation.
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.
Prison life has been portrayed in movies and books as harsh as well as unbearable. It is a situation where peace is not existent. This is the environment that religious leaders are expected to spread the God News. It leaves you wondering what the definition of hope is in an environment where you await death. A minister has problems talking about repentance and forgiveness.
Prison is a ministry where people will be assigned yet not everyone can manage that. Shaw chose to work in prison because it was a special calling. This experience revealed a world of difference between people who are free and those living behind bars. According to Richard, it takes the grace of God to minister in this environment.
There are more questions that ringer about prisons and their role in the society. This is a confined space for both the free and those who are locked. Prisoners naturally do not want to be there. In fact, many of them recognize their faults as soon as reality hits that they are imprisoned. Do the prison warders love the job of being the lords and gods over these prisoners? The answer lies deep in the book.
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.
The book is a fast read and enlightening text that will change your perspective of people in prisons. It gives you a different idea of prison life and the people who work in the system, directly or indirectly. From the book, no one ever enjoys a minute behind bars, for whatever reason.
Richard Shaw is a chaplain who has to take the Word of God to prisoners. This might appear like a responsibility of chaplains and therefore a duty that must be performed, regardless of prevailing circumstances. However, there is more to ministering and spending time with prisoners than just talking about God and his salvation.
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.
Prison life has been portrayed in movies and books as harsh as well as unbearable. It is a situation where peace is not existent. This is the environment that religious leaders are expected to spread the God News. It leaves you wondering what the definition of hope is in an environment where you await death. A minister has problems talking about repentance and forgiveness.
Prison is a ministry where people will be assigned yet not everyone can manage that. Shaw chose to work in prison because it was a special calling. This experience revealed a world of difference between people who are free and those living behind bars. According to Richard, it takes the grace of God to minister in this environment.
There are more questions that ringer about prisons and their role in the society. This is a confined space for both the free and those who are locked. Prisoners naturally do not want to be there. In fact, many of them recognize their faults as soon as reality hits that they are imprisoned. Do the prison warders love the job of being the lords and gods over these prisoners? The answer lies deep in the book.
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.
The book is a fast read and enlightening text that will change your perspective of people in prisons. It gives you a different idea of prison life and the people who work in the system, directly or indirectly. From the book, no one ever enjoys a minute behind bars, for whatever reason.
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