In Tennessee, Is Redemption Only for the Powerful?
It's a strange infatuation, a theology almost, centered on the elevation of white supremacy.
Amazing Grace in the ‘Killing House’
You cannot sever justice from love.
Dear Gov. Lee: Pray with These Brothers in Christ on Death Row
Gov. Lee, please be like Jesus and pray with the men in Unit 2.
Washing the Blood Off Our Hands
We have a system that kills but that has no killers.
Will Grace Prevail as Tennessee Execution Looms?
No one is above reproach. And no one is beyond redemption.
Christians Can’t Allow the Bible Belt to Be the ‘Death Belt’
It makes me wonder if Christians have missed the whole point of the gospel.
Christians Are Why the Death Penalty Lives On
The Bible Belt is the death belt in America.
An Open Letter to Tennessee (and Others in America’s Heartland Who May Be Listening In)
Tennessee, perhaps you should rethink your state book proposal. Because the ancient text you’ve selected doesn’t have incredibly favorable things to say about government officials who leverage religion for personal, financial, and political gain.
It’s Time to Stop Killing: A Former Tennessee Prison Chaplain on Capital Punishment
JULY 8, 2014 | BY: MICHAEL MCRAY -- I am firmly against capital punishment. I live in Nashville, Tennessee, where the state’s "death row...
It's a Sad Day in Tennessee: the Electric Chair is Back
MAY 23, 2014 | BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- As the national tide turns away from execution - on Thursday, Gov Bill Haslam signed a bill to bring...