Joshua Byron Stancil

Executive Director of Living With Convictions, Inc., a Catholic ministry to men and women navigating prison and reentry

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@CaitlinPacific We’re still very much in Trust-me-bro territory

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@EdwardPentin @HolySeePress You don’t need a synod to figure out you shouldn’t incardinate a serial rapist

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@budman_mark The tendency toward blocking is an indication of our culture’s willful immaturity

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My nonprofit, Living With Convictions, operates two transitional homes for men starting over after prison. Please give us a follow here on X, and on FB and IG. Visit our website and sign up for our newsletter. Thanks!

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Lewis, the first resident of St Michael House, puts his considerable talents to use in rebuilding the wraparound deck. Thanks so much, Lewis! 🥳

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@HannahDCox We’re simple folk

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@tonyannett I’m genuinely curious why you think Francis is the one and only pope whose priorities will become permanent. His pontificate has not been especially long, historically speaking, and his reign has been deeply divisive. I’m not sure how this equals “permanent change.”

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My nonprofit, Living With Convictions, just opened its second transitional home and welcomed its first resident. Please follow us on X, FB, and IG, and visit our site to sign up for our newsletter 🙌🏼

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St Michael House, our second transitional home, welcomed its first resident Saturday afternoon! Here's Lewis, only hours after his release, holding the keys to the front door 🥳

#returningcitizens #reentry #catholicchurch #transitionalhousing #catholic #secondchances

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@dlongenecker1 Yes

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“Love is the prime gift. Whatever else is freely given to us becomes a gift only through love.” (Josef Pieper)

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Yesterday, one of our Kolbe House residents, Aaron, received a beautiful gift from the mother of Lisa Michaels, one of our board members: a handmade quilt, on which she'd written, "You are loved."

#reentry #secondchances #returningcitizens #catholic #catholicchurch

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While on a Zoom call with a couple of Living With Convictions board members, I felt compelled to show off my groovy new LWC coffee mug

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https://t.co/AiIRt8oqhT

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I hope you’ll consider a tax-deductible donation to help us in this massive undertaking. The need is huge: four of the five bedrooms are already spoken for—and the house is still weeks away from opening. Thank you so much for your help!

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BIG NEWS!
Renovations on our new transitional home have begun, and should be completed in about three weeks. A five-bedroom house, this new property will more than double the number of men we can help with housing and essential services!

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Interesting article about the unusual history and uncertain future of Rublev's Trinity
https://t.co/doRMUXMjVF

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“We humans find ourselves traveling in the strange medium of time, somewhere between our mysterious origin as creatures outwardly very much like the animals, yet with inward capacities vastly surpassing then, beckoned by something immense.”

Anna Silvras

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Prison wasn’t the final word on Danny Trejo’s life. He began again, and has enjoyed decades of sobriety and memorable film roles. Congrats!

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I’m 55 years clean and sober today by the grace of God! I’ve done this one day at a time, and for anyone out there struggling YOU CAN TOO!

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@LouieVerrecchio I bought that trick back in my teens. I was visiting a magic shop and the magician performed it for me. “I gotta have that,” I said, and paid. When he showed me the secret, I thought he was lying. “Ain’t no way that fools people.” But it does, even up close. Nice job.

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@SamRochadotcom The song has problems—overweight poor people with EBT cards obviously aren’t the ones destroying the country. But to imply the song is a paean to fascism is simply absurd.

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Prayerbook of priest who saved Charles II’s life on display in Staffordshire hall https://t.co/E1OL0p2nG9

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Meet Brian. After prison, he struggled with homelessness till joining us at Kolbe House. Visit our website for the complete video

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@SteveSkojec I could agree with that if his story actually had some internal coherence. But it doesn’t. And when someone pops up with a ridiculous-sounding tale and nothing more, no evidence to buttress it—then I can enjoy it as a fun little campfire story but that’s it