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Overdue

A Dewey Decimal System of Grace

Overdue

A Dewey Decimal System of Grace

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£12.99

Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814664117
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 26/08/2019
Width: 13.7 cm
Height: 21 cm
Valerie Schultz almost stumbled into prison ministry, a happy accident of a beginning. Initially fearful of the scary people she’d meet and the dark place she’d be working, she found that some inmates were dangerous, but many were kind; some were mean and some were friendly; some were misogynistic and some were respectful; some were quiet and some were loud. In short, they were a lot like the non-incarcerated population.

As Schultz went from volunteering to working in a clerical position and then running a library on a yard, she learned to see the prisoners as human beings. They possessed all the quirks and gifts and flaws, the nobility and the sin, that define humanity—every single one of them a human being created and loved by God. It was no challenge to find God in all things in prison, because God was palpably everywhere.

In Overdue, Schultz shares what she learned and the grace she received during her fourteen years inside an American prison. Her experience and insights will transform how you see the people around you and the world we all share.
Contents:
Introduction xi
000 Information & General Works
   Here’s the Deal 1
   Library Work 18
   Used Books 20
   Overdue 22
   The Letter R 24
100 Philosophy & Psychology
   Precious and Precarious 27
   The Grace of Acceptance 29
   No In-Between 31
   Psych Reports 33
   Sex Offenders and Me: An Uneasy Alliance 36
200 Religion
   Visits with Brothers 40
   Christmas in Captivity 45
   A Thief in the Night 48
   Unforgiven 51
   A Congress of World Religions 58
300 Social Sciences
   Normal/Not-Normal 61
   Men Are from Mars . . . 68
   . . . Women Are from Venus 72
   Institutionalization 73
   Eat a Peach 74
   Family Visits 78
   A Moment of Silence 80
   Inmate Turner 83
   Lessons in Appreciation 86
400 Language
   The Work Glossary 88
   Spanish Lessons 90
   Stumped by the Code of Prison 92
   The Language of Grief 95
500 Pure Science
   Inventions 98
   Animal Lovers 101
   Cat Lessons 104
   Flies for Henrietta 106
   Naturalists on the Yard 110
600 Technology
   Or Lack Thereof 113
   College Comes to Prison 116
   My Alarm 120
700 Arts & Recreation
   The Regulars 123
   The Rumor Mill 128
   Tattoos 132
   The Things They Left in Books 134
   Sports Fans 137
800 Literature
   The Transformative Power of the P Encyclopedia 139
   Writing on the Inside 140
   Getting the Written Word Out of the Prison 145
   The Caged Bird 146

Valerie Schultz

Valerie Schultz is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Give Us This Day, America magazine, and in her regular column for the Bakersfield Californian. She is also the author of the book Closer: Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God. She and her husband Randy have four daughters.

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