Contents Introduction
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How to Use This Book
1. Starting Well: Surviving Spiritually on the Inside 10 Voices from the NRC: Changing Your Life and Connecting to God 13 How People Change (or Don’t) 19 What Works and What Doesn’t: Wisdom from C and D Blocks 25 From Where I Sit (Chaplain George Adamson, Stateville Prison) 28 2. Read This If You’re Confused About Faith, the Bible, Prayer, and All That 32 Why Jesus? 33 Why Grace? 35 Belonging and Believing 38 Questions People Ask About the Bible 44 The Big Love Story 48 Reading the Bible 55 Ten Words That Could Use Some Explaining 57 3. Forgiveness 60 Love’s Toughest Work 62 The Heart and Art of Forgiveness 64 When It’s Really Hard to Forgive 66 4. Shame 72 Who Are We, Really? 75 From Where I Sit: The Journey from Shame to Joy (Fred Nelson, Pastor) 77 5. Complicated Stuff 88 You, Addiction and God 89 From Where I Sit: You, the Gangs, and God (Various Inmates) 96 Maintaining (or Regaining) a Meaningful Relationship with Your Family 103
Copyright 2012 Revised and expanded e diton 2017 by Fred Nelson
Edited by David A. Zimmerman
Cover and interior design: Rebecca Larson
Logo design by Thor Uremovich
ISBN: 978-1-4675-2429-2
Portions reprinted and adapted with permission.
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