Chris Hoke

Prison Reentry Organizer | Director of @UndergroundMins and One Parish One Prisoner | Author of WANTED and THE FURURE FOREST (link below)

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

Two childhood friends and I abandoned social media, nearing midlife, for a year of letters—on a shared a Google Doc. These story-rich exchanges, with genre-stretching “comments” down the side, dug way deeper into our stories than we knew about each other: https://t.co/g98YqAoQOO

[Brazos Press @BrazosPress]

🔥Cover reveals!🔥 It's time to share our lineup of Spring 2024 books!

First we have Flannery Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage by @HootenWilson! This book includes O'Connor's unfinished third novel, in print for the first time! Preorder here: https://t.co/8dKkMM4JSD

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

“The old script for masculinity might be on its way out. It’s time we replaced it with something better,” writes ⁦@ChristineEmba⁩ in this essential new thesis. My buddies and I wrote letters to find that “something better”: https://t.co/vx6NjSDxRB https://t.co/GL7Ra92o0c

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Tough-on-crime lawmakers, DAs, police departments, and the cash bail industry often claim pretrial reform puts public safety at risk.

Data from every county, city, or state that has measured the effects of pretrial reform prove otherwise.
https://t.co/I0XfHmKtYs

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

Good ideas often hold up to good research

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

We rounded up 50+ years of evidence showing why it’s good policy to help incarcerated people and their loved ones to stay in touch:
https://t.co/3eShprs4pr

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

@HootenWilson That’s … a wild combo on the consciousness.

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One of the longest surviving traditions of Christian faith joins the other western traditions in *officially* renouncing the way of Jesus. Took ���em a while.

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@DavidDark

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@brainbliss @ARStager Man I need to get back into those waters

[U.S. Catholic magazine @USCatholic]

St. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI both recognized the merits of Marxism even while criticizing its faults, writes @samrochadotcom.
https://t.co/ji6Aka4pPV

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

Best leadership clinic I’ve received in a while:

[🇺🇸Rubén Degollado 🇲🇽 @ruben_degollado]

I don’t talk about it much on here, but I’ve been a school leader of some kind over the last 16 years: an assistant principal, principal, project manager, coordinator, director. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and these are some of the important lessons 1/

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

Same for parenting. Finding this is my deepest work for the decade.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Leadership lesson I return to weekly: Monitoring our own reactivity and prayerfully self-regulating is the primary task of leadership in a fractured and anxious world.

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Abolition prayers go like this:

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This is the secret of my career and the founding of @undergroundmins: I connected with those I met in jail chaplaincy, as my loneliness met theirs. My despair and theirs became something different: wildly honest, tender, hilarious, holy. Now science sees: relationships heal.

[U.S. Surgeon General @Surgeon_General]

NEW: Today, I released a Surgeon General's Advisory on the epidemic of loneliness and isolation facing our country, the destructive impacts it has on our collective health, and the extraordinary healing power of our relationships. https://t.co/P9RnZkLr6G #Connect2Heal 1/8

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@Surgeon_General @prisonculture @undergroundmins

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@ImagesAlbum @brainbliss

[Jack Jenkins @jackmjenkins]

DeSantis, who ran a “God made a fighter” ad in 2022 framing his political career in religious terms, is Catholic.

Pope Francis updated the Catholic catechism in 2018 to decry the death penalty as always “inadmissible” & “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

Good Friday happens all the time with our friends who are arrested, who relapse. When the story and revolution we planned goes to shit. Read here: https://t.co/uQis2gSIXc

[Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk]

We must learn to grow like a tree,
not like a fire.

--Wendell Berry

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

My co-authored work of friendship letters THE FUTURE FOREST also followed our team, the Dodgers, that fateful year. As we roll out this oddbal memoir online, we are giving away 4 DODGER TICKETS!

[The Future Forest: Pandemic Letters @HokeMurphWuck]

We’re giving away FOUR tickets to the Freeway Series at Dodger Stadium.

TO ENTER:
Like and retweet this post✔️
Follow us✔️
Bonus: Join our mailing list✔️

We’ll announce the winner next Monday, March 20th—the first day of spring!