Underground Ministries

We equip local communities to embrace men and women as they return from prison.

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

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.

[Alessandra Harris Author @AlessandraH17]

California fires: Landmark firefighting law sparks hope for people who were formerly incarcerated https://t.co/dkkVj0h3FL

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

Thanks as always to Scott Erickson for lending his evocative art to our work.

[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

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

This is what undergirds our One Parish One Prisoner reentry movement involving local congregations everywhere: “we imagine a world without prisons and then we try to create that world.” https://t.co/nZHwOJIbbz

[Carmen Acevedo Butcher @cab_phd]

“We imagine a world without prisons and then we try to create that world.” Father Greg Boyle, founder of @HomeboyIndustries Last night Greg, Laura Miera, Christy, and Jeanette talked at Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and it was so good. Glad to be there. @practofthepres /1

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

Modeling these relationships of trust and embrace expose the lie of the criminal legal system. This is what we seek to multiply, starting with prison letters then Reentry partnerships together.

[Katie Donahoe @KatieGetsReal]

In 1971, as part of a prisoner trustee program, then Governor of Georgia Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter hired Mary Prince to be their daughter’s nanny after she’d been convicted of manslaughter.

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

@eramshaw @prisonculture @19thnews @cjnorwoodwrites @undergroundmins

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

A beautiful piece that calls bluff on the lockup system’s favorite myth:

[thucksgiving @TylerHuckabee]

i wrote about crime, why we always seem to think it's going up, and the beautiful world that's costing us. https://t.co/snEBCYxqzl

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

We got modifiable STICKERS coming soon. For all our Reentry teams—and countless others for whom this is true—to boldly celebrate these relationships. (Inspired by the beautiful pioneers at @NoExceptionsPr1 ). Learn more at https://t.co/FAcP2pDmLy

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

These are the tender and harrowing stories that have pulled me and thousands more into relationship and Reentry work alongside the incarcerated:

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

Underground Ministries is helping small communities crack open the gates of Hades—prison system—one Reentry friendship at a time. Join us: https://t.co/AAkYXkv8nK

[Teri McDowell Ott @terimcdowellott]

One Parish One Prisoner from @undergroundmins is an amazing opportunity for churches to participate in resurrection work.

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

Excited to share my cover story for the @presoutlook this month—about our work in WA mobilizing churches to practice a resurrection ethic through prison Reentry relationships. https://t.co/Q8wfNG4L1y. @undergroundmins

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

Hugs for thugs. Prison Reentry. Worlds colliding. Humor and healing. Looks proper after the first ep! Watch @ThisFoolHulu with us at Underground Ministries.

[Ryan J Pemberton @ryanjpemberton]

Just finished editing the transcript from my second interview with @ChrisHoker of @undergroundmins for Radix Magazine.

It is the highlight of all my interviews so far. Cannot wait to share it soon!

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

We are constantly inspired by the men and women we get to work with who are leaving prison—and leaving behind their old violence, forsaking their guns, asking for help to learn a new way. The formerly incarcerated are way out in front. They can lead us into the future.

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

2.2 million people – parents, children, siblings, friends – are locked up. Lisa Guenther describes the “social death” of incarceration. So Good Friday and Holy Saturday are every day in America. The tombs are full. We need a resurrection movement: https://t.co/pkMlZk5l5q

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

@reubenjmiller @undergroundmins

[Chris Hoke @ChrisHoker]

I wrote a feature piece for ⁦@presoutlook⁩ on Easter, the Abolition of Hell, and how we can practice that Resurrection everywhere via prison Reentry work. Right on time for the heart of Holy Week: https://t.co/pkMlZk5l5q

[Underground Ministries @undergroundmins]

@AlessandraH17 Here’s an editorial preview of a feature article I wrote on exactly this—coming out next week:

https://t.co/FHfneLYvs2