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Catsandbooks
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1. I made a Kamala spread in my journal! 💙
2. My husband brought me back a little pot from CO 🪴😂
3. I started a Libro.fm membership since I've been reading most of my books by audiobook lately
4. Free drink from my favorite local cafe
5. Much needed rain storms 🌧️

#5JoysFriday

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 2mo
DebinHawaii A lovely list of joys! 💛💛💛 I especially love your journal spread-it turned out so well! 💙💙💙 Thanks for sharing & helping spread the joy! 🤗 2mo
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Bethanyroe
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Pickpick

What a fantastic book. So incredibly endearing and infuriating all at the same time!

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JenniferEgnor
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The author came into this work knowing what he wanted to do, but he didn‘t realize how hard it would be, or that it would change his life even more than those he served. This book isn‘t just about the work of Equal Justice Initiative; it‘s about how we treat others, and the vision of systems of compassion, instead of systems of oppression. The story of Walter McMillian is featured heavily in this book, but there are also stories of other ⬇️

JenniferEgnor criminalized persons. The author was able to help some of them. Not only did he have to go up against a system of injustice, he had to go up against old hatreds; doing this work in the Deep South was dangerous. America has a problem with mass incarceration, and criminality. This book takes a deep look at the flaws in the system, showing the threads of racism that still hold it together, and asks us to look for another way; asks us to look at⬇️ 4mo
JenniferEgnor and within, the individuals that we are so quick to lock away and kill. This way of doing things is not loving, not sustainable, not just. Another way is possible; we must work to achieve it. Highly recommended read. 4mo
JenniferEgnor Link to the website here: https://eji.org/ 4mo
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JenniferEgnor
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There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can‘t otherwise see; you hear things you can‘t otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. What would happen if we just⬇️

JenniferEgnor acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears. Maybe if we did, we wouldn‘t want to kill the broken among us who have killed others. Maybe we would look harder for solutions to caring for the disabled, the abused, the neglected, and the traumatized. If we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to⬇️ 4mo
JenniferEgnor the most vulnerable. 4mo
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JenniferEgnor
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America‘s prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. Mass incarceration has been largely fueled by misguided drug policy and excessive sentencing, but the internment of hundreds of thousands of poor and mentally ill people has been driving force in achieving our record levels of imprisonment. It‘s created unprecedented problems.

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JenniferEgnor
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Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment.

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JenniferEgnor
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In debates around the death penalty, I had started arguing that we would never think it was humane to pay someone to rape people convicted of rape or assault and abuse someone guilty of assault or abuse. Yet we were comfortable killing people who kill, in part because we think we can do it in a manner that doesn‘t implicate our own humanity, the way that raping or abusing someone would. I couldn‘t stop thinking that we don‘t spend much time⬇️

JenniferEgnor contemplating the details of what killing someone actually involves. 4mo
Sincerely.Sarah Wow this is so compelling. 4mo
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GatheringBooks
We Care: A First Conversation about Justice | Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli
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#SummerSouls Day 8: We care because we are #Friends. Recent Libby ebook find. Review is forthcoming. 💕

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🫶🏻😘❤️ 5mo
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Julz422
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Such an important work. I think even the non Christian should read this as it is more about our history with racism and the realities of the underprivileged more so than living a distinctly Christian life.

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