Articles About Jens
Religious Articles By Jens
Prison Reform Articles By Jens
There are many more articles by Jens on the two pages for his first two books at the Lantern Books website.
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List of Published Articles
A. "Straight" Prison Reform (* denotes a religious newspaper or magazine)
* Growing Old Behind Bars, America, 10/10/03
Another Life Ruined, (Charlottesville, Va.) C'ville Weekly, 12/2/03
Sniper suspect's defense has parallels, (Charlottesville, Va.) Daily Progress, 12/7/03
* Another Christmas in a prison visiting room, National Catholic Reporter, 12/26/03
* Much Sadder Sentence, America, 3/29/04
No Mercy, (Charlottesville, Va.) The Hook, 5/6/04
The Perils of Freedom, America, 7/5/04
No Way Out, Washington City Paper, 9/3/04
Crime After Crime, The American Conservative, 9/27/04
No Way Out (republished), (Charlottesville, Va.) The Hook, 10/14/04
The prison dog that didn't bark, (Norfolk, Va.) Virginian Pilot, 11/15/04
* Turning Tony Into Tonya, National Catholic Reporter; 11/19/04
* The Carrot and the Sticks, America, 3/21/05
* Uncorrected, Christian Century, 9/18/07
* Correctional Capitalism, Prism, Jan-Feb/08
* Life Without Parole, Christian Century, 8/12/08
* Correctional Capitalism (republished), Justice Reflections (U.K.), Summer/08, Nr. 18/08
B. Mostly Prison Reform, with a little Religion
For God cuts down gates of bronze, Catholic Peace Voice, Jul-Aug/03
He Who Has Eyes, America, 8/18/03
The Rest of Their Days in Prosperity, Pastoral Life, 11/03
What I Learned from Flickin' Joe, Justice Reflections (U.K.), Nr. 2/03
The First to Throw a Stone, Pastoral Life, 4/04
Another Easter Statistic, America, 4/12/04
Persistent Widow, Unjust Judge, Celebration, 10/04
Hallmark Hank's last free Christmas, Catholic Peace Voice, Nov-Dec/04
The Bad Thief, America, 12/6/04
Another Christmas Statistic (republished), CrossCurrents, Winter/04
For Toolbox, Radical Grace, Fall/07
C. Mostly Religion, with a little Prison Reform
Our Prisons Can Be Instruments of Grace, This Rock, 2/03
From Buddhist to Papist (republished), Pastoral Life, 3/03
The Least of these Brothers, Faith @ Work, Spring/03
From Buddhist to Papist (republished), Emmanuel, May-Jun/03
The Kenotic Convict, The Merton Annual, Vo1. 16/03
Blast of the Divine, Sojourners, Sep-Oct/03
On Penitence and Penitentiaries, National Catholic Reporter, 3/19/04
The Convict Christ, Prism, Mar-Apr/05
Every Step on this Road, Radical Grace, Apr-May-Jun/06
D. “Straight” Religion
Gluttony, Avarice and Vainglory, Emmanuel, Sep-Oct/03
Giving Birth to the Son in Us, Emmanuel, Jan-Feb/04
Osama bin Laden and a Return to a Perennial Theory of Mystical Union, Monastic Interreligious Dialogue Bulletin, May/04
The Flame Has Lit Up the World from Within, Pastoral Life, 6/04
Ein Lauter Nichts, Celebration, 7/04
The Inner Experience, The Merton Annual, Vol. 17/04
Be Born in Us Today, Pastoral Life, 12/04
Justice, Justice Thou Shall Pursue, Justice Reflections (U.K.), Winter/07, Nr. 16/07
