Prison Theology, 51 Colonial Circle, Buffalo, NY (2026)

08/17/2022

Good afternoon, if you have not already, please register today to watch the documentary, "Food for the Rest of Us". Once you register, I will forward a screener to you. Please note that access to the film will expire on Friday, Aug 19th. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-focus-on-environmental-racism-food-justice-tickets-398214358867 - Watch the film on your computer and join us for a discussion on Friday evening if you would like. Thanks, Gabrie'l 🧡

Film & Discussion - Food for the Rest of Us (2021) Dir by Caroline Cox

05/30/2021

May 18, 2021 Did the Bodhidharma establish the Shaolin Monastery amidst the Song Mountains? The legendary monks there synthesized and integrated spiritual and physical disciplines (just as many Christian monks did) so that mind overcame matter. The body incarcerated transcends matter and incarnates spiritual liberation from capitalistic, materialistic, and militaristic systems of oppression. Bruce Lee and the Wu-Tang Clan were inspired by the Shaolin monks....

May 18, 2021 Did the Bodhidharma establish the Shaolin Monastery amidst the Song Mountains? The legendary monks there synthesized and integrated spiritual and physical disciplines (just as ma…

05/05/2021

May 4, 2021 We can learn much from the fasting and hunger strikes of people incarcerated. We can learn much from the systematic practice of fasting ascribed by Islamic Ramadan. One is motivated by acts of survival and resistance and one is motivated by the ritualistic tradition of deepening faith and awareness. Both affect society by individual sacrifice. One is extreme and one is tempered....

May 4, 2021 We can learn much from the fasting and hunger strikes of people incarcerated. We can learn much from the systematic practice of fasting ascribed by Islamic Ramadan. One is motivat…

04/26/2021

April 20, 2021 As of this writing, I am awaiting the decision of the trial of the killer of George Floyd. I am thinking through the thought of Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis as it relates to the hegemony of police, race and capital as it is manifested by the American Pontius Pilate Centurion Guard Prison-Industrial Complex. The echoes of pain and history, contemporary circumstance, progressive thought, spiritual essence, prayer life and sacrificial, compassionate action on behalf of primarily poor and oppressed people are key tenets of Prison Theology....

April 20, 2021 As of this writing, I am awaiting the decision of the trial of the killer of George Floyd. I am thinking through the thought of Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davi…

04/11/2021

April 6, 2021 In the first chapter of our first book, I gave examples of letters to prison inmates as a template for how to create a teaching method. We found that if inmates use their time in a purposeful way, they can discover truths about themselves and existence. To Lori I wrote, “I was reading how the man of authority, King Nebuchadnezzar, fell prostrate before Daniel, the prophet, and said to him “Your God must be the God of gods, the master of kings and the Revealer of Mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery.” (Dn 2:47-48) Both you and Daniel share the experience of captivity and the capacity of penetrating the mysteries, with humility. ...

April 6, 2021 In the first chapter of our first book, I gave examples of letters to prison inmates as a template for how to create a teaching method. We found that if inmates use their time i…

03/17/2021

March 17, 2021 Thoughts on Mariposa and the Saint, a one act monologue play recently shown via Episcopalian justice circles and outreach initiatives. Is Mariposa the Saint? High atop the Sierra Nevadas, before the white man made prisons and reservations, this woman’s mother’s people lived and now this mother lived surviving a cruel world when she pulled a knife on a man....

March 17, 2021 Thoughts on Mariposa and the Saint, a one act monologue play recently shown via Episcopalian justice circles and outreach initiatives. Is Mariposa the Saint? High atop th…

02/04/2021

February 2, 2021 “Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.” (Ps 30:5) Lori Carter took these words to turn her “mess into a message,” as she wrote in our 1st publication. She endured the nighttime of prison, and before that, a host of afflictions that do not afflict or affect rich white male people in this country....

February 2, 2021 “Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.” (Ps 30:5) Lori Carter took these words to turn her “mess into a message,” as she wrote in our 1st publica…

01/21/2021

January 19, 2021 “And when the psychosis passed I found myself in a cell in Upstate Correctional Facility and I felt so utterly empty, alone and scarred…” These are the words of Jelani Zulante, who contributed to our 2nd publication. This is how I and many feel after 4 years of intense Christian Republican fascism. The words of inmates, those who are witness to continuous horror, act as a lamentation....

January 19, 2021 “And when the psychosis passed I found myself in a cell in Upstate Correctional Facility and I felt so utterly empty, alone and scarred…” These are the words of Jelani Zulant…

01/08/2021

January 5, 2021 Is Pontius Pilate less of a criminal than Jesus Christ? Is the outgoing president a criminal? Within society, the criminalization of poor people is easy. Jesus was poor, Pilate was rich. Trump can lie, cheat and attempt to steal an election, sexually abuse and manipulate women, support policies that destroy eco-systems and cultures, and exacerbate wealth inequity and the suffering caused by that....

January 5, 2021 Is Pontius Pilate less of a criminal than Jesus Christ? Is the outgoing president a criminal? Within society, the criminalization of poor people is easy. Jesus wa…

12/04/2020

December 4, 2020 3.5 miles from the Candles Holocaust Museum and 9.9 miles from the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary – of –the – Woods, along the Wabash River in Indiana, is the Terre Haute Ex*****on Chamber, where U.S. federal executions occur. Since 1988, when the Supreme Court restored the federal death penalty, all executions have been here. The Supreme Court struck down the law in 1972....

December 4, 2020 3.5 miles from the Candles Holocaust Museum and 9.9 miles from the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary – of –the – Woods, along the Wabash River in Indiana, is the Terre Haute Execut…

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