Christian Coping In Prison

This book is a surprising mix of academic research and human relationships. Readers will scarcely note the thoroughness of the research as they turn the pages because the work is of intense human interest. There is a strong autobiographical theme because the author, an Anglican priest, uses his painful experience behind bars as a tool for empathy and for outreach. The insights to prison life are scary. Serious questions are posed about the purpose and value of the custodial system. The author’s own conversion experience, in prison, is deeply moving because he finds an acceptance he had never known when free. His return to ‘freedom’ holds shocks for him, and lessons for all of us who are content in our churches, enjoying the fine liturgy and the company of like-minded people. This book sits like a time bomb under the complacent and the self-righteous.