Today's Fresh Blogs...

• We Are Not Our Behavior

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Restorative Justice, Sexual Ethics

  that I work in the criminal justice reform arm of Prison Fellowship advocating the principles of restorative justice. These principles encourage responsibility, forgiveness and reconciliation between offenders, victims and communities, and offer hope to ALL criminals, including sex offenders. In the original article I mentioned above, the second

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• I Surrender All Never Sounded So Sweet

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Restorative Justice

  Churches across the country are working with the U.S. Marshals Office, local law enforcement, and courts to put a new twist on the old "I Surrender All" altar call. The Fugitive Safe Surrender program was the creative brain-child of U.S. Marshal Pete Elliot. As he was immersed in his Stairmaster workout one day, thoughts of a fellow

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• More on the Dancing Inmates

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice

  Once Filipino prisoners participated in the cleanup of the worst oil spill in the Philippines by shaving off their hair, and now, as Zoe wrote a while back, they are participating in reenacting musical acts from Michael Jackson, Queen, Sister Act and Black Eyed Peas. The production is performed by over 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial

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• Countdown to Rwanda

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Restorative Justice, Transformed Lives

  In just four days (not that I'm counting), fellow Point blogger Catherine Claire and I (plus two other friends) will be taking some time off work and leaving on a jet plane for Kigali, Rwanda, to meet survivors of the 1994 genocide--100 days of brutal slaughter that pitted neighbor against neighbor at the tip of a machete. Not only that, but we

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• The Forgiver and the Forgiven

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:46 am

  Tags: Restorative Justice

  As we've said, Zoe and I have just returned from two weeks of interviewing some 25 people in Rwanda: survivors, killers, and experts in the field of reconciliation. One of our main observations from the trip is that of the people who have been forgiven versus the people who have forgiven them, the forgiven often seem more plagued with despair than

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• Q&A with Mark Earley, Day One of Five: Kingdom Carpe Diem

  Published: September 3, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Religion Society, Restorative Justice, Transformed Lives

  Catherine: Mark, thanks so much for joining us on the Point blog today. Today is the launch of your new daily one-minute radio program. Can you tell our readers a little bit about the program and why you've started it? Mark: Well, our Breakpoint radio program has been very successful over the years. Many of our radio stations, however, are moving

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• Q&A with Mark Earley, Day Two of Five: Whats All the Fuss about Worldview?

  Published: September 4, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: Religion Society, Restorative Justice, Transformed Lives

  the prophet Amos, Let justice flow down like a mighty river, but it's another thing to build the irrigation system that delivers that justice. So there's a system in which we're not just working to see individual lives changed, but to build an irrigation system in communities that allow the love of Christ to impact lives and impact

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• Aint nobody coming

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:05 pm

  Tags: Apologetics Theology, Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice

  A front page article in Sunday's Washington Post highlighted the very real challenges that newly-released ex-prisoners face during their return to free society. If you want to get some good ideas for how you can get involved in helping people making this transition, I recommend Pat Nolan's excellent book When Prisoners Return. Besides the near

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• Q&A with Mark Earley, Day Three of Five: Dont I Know Him from Somewhere?

  Published: September 5, 2007, 8:56 am

  Tags: Apologetics Theology, Politics Government, Religion Society, Restorative Justice, Sexual Ethics, Transformed Lives

  Catherine: Now a lot of our readers out there may be scratching their heads saying, The name Mark Earley is familiar to me, don't I know him from somewhere? Can you tell our readers about what you were doing before you came to PFM and how God led you here? Mark: Immediately before coming to PFM, I served as Attorney General of Virginia for

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• Where Justice Meets Mercy, or Does It?

  Published: September 5, 2007, 8:12 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Restorative Justice, Transformed Lives

  required to balance true justice with true mercy. True justice doesn't diminish the full impact that someone's crime (in this case, the effect of the murder on the victim's family) has wrought. True mercy acknowledges justice's cause, and chooses to forgive anyway. No one has the right to force the family of the victim to look in John's

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• RE: Journey of Forgiveness

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:10 pm

  Tags: Restorative Justice, Transformed Lives

  Kris, thank you for those moving words. The notion of forgiveness as a journey was something we heard again and again in Rwanda from survivors and people who work waist-deep in the mucky business of peace-making. The co-chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda, Antoine Rutiyesere, talked to us about that process, not only on

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• Justice Fellowship head featured on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:48 pm

  Tags: Restorative Justice

  Check your local listings (days and times around the country will vary) and watch for Pat Nolan on PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly this weekend. Pat is the head of PFM's Justice Fellowship branch.

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• The Wilberforce Agenda

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:11 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Persecution, Life Issues, Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Restorative Justice

  This National Review article by John O'Sullivan is still subscriber-only, though I hoped it would be widely available by now. It's too bad, because the piece -- which talks about how, in the spirit of William Wilberforce, evangelicals could work with other groups to promote "an agenda of moral issues, covering national and international

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• Apologies from a Sniper

  Published: October 4, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Restorative Justice

  one of the principles of restorative justice is that of encounter. Many people like Ms. Witz earnestly desire a letter, a meeting, a phone call, some kind of contact with the person who caused them or their family harm. Sometimes the encounter is simply a chance to have some unanswered questions resolved. Other times as in this case there is

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• Are You an Angel Tree Child?

  Published: October 8, 2007, 3:25 pm

  Tags: Inspiration, Marriage Family, Restorative Justice

  I know this is a long shot, but would Columbus have touched American soil had he not taken a long shot (okay, there's my cheesy hat tip to this national holiday)? I'm trying to track down grown-up Angel Tree kids, and I'm using a blog to do it. So, if you were impacted by Angel Tree (Prison Fellowship's ministry to children of prisoners) as a

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