Universal Health Care as a Human Right: The Argument of Dietrich Bonhoeffer G. Clarke Chapman, The Edward Mellen Press, 2014 Reviewed by John W. Matthews, Apple Valley, Minnesota What an interesting – and ironic – time to review a book on universal health care in the United States. In January 2017, a President was inaugurated [...]
A Death Row Inmate Finds Common Ground With Theologians
A lot of convicted felons find God while in prison. Some of their stories rise to the level of literature — Oscar Wilde, Malcolm X. Others are less sincere; parole boards around the country are treated to a lot of conversion stories. Few are anything like Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, who is scheduled on Monday [...]
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Georgia death row inmate finds path back to hope with ‘costly grace’
I met Kelly Gissendaner in January 2010 in a nondescript classroom at Metro State Prison for Women in Atlanta. She arrived for class beaming with excitement about the journey she was about to begin — participation in a yearlong academic theology program sponsored jointly by four Atlanta seminaries. Since she has been sentenced to the [...]