December 31, 2020 The last day of the year is relatively quiet behind razor wire and chain link fencing surrounding these metal buildings on top of a lovely hill. Three oranges sit on the table as we pass the 17th day of a quarantine here at Danbury Federal Prison. Thank God for some fresh fruit […]
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The Wind Blows Where It Wills by Mark Colville June, 2019 Glynn County Detention Center Settling into a semi-quiet space to put pen to paper, I’m preoccupied with news of a trial that is proceeding in federal court in Tucson, Arizona. A man named Scott Warren is facing up to twenty years in prison on […]
March, 2019 Dear Friends, Greetings and hugs all around! With a grateful heart I commend all who continue to make the sacrifices necessary to keep our doors at the Amistad Catholic Worker open, the kitchen warm, and the table set, especially during these harsh months and under the added strain of my extended absence. For […]
August 27, 2018 by Mark Colville Postcards To Bodhi #4 COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT So we’ve been locked down in our cells yet again, with no indication of how long it will last this time. Collective punishment– which, as I try to keep reminding myself, is an internationally-condemned human rights violation– is standard procedure here, a basic […]
6/17/18 by Mark Colville Written from jail based on the Gospel reading for that day. Mark 4:26-34 There’s a consolation that flows from this parable, “the seed grows of itself,” that I’d not found before. Day to day life here is dominated by the experience and the effects of scattering. The collective that makes up […]
[MOTIONS HEARING STATEMENT: First Draft] Rattling My Cage (Some thoughts on our upcoming trial) by Mark Colville June 5, 2018 One of the blessings that has flowed in abundance during this time of incarceration is recollectedness – a mental and spiritual focus which I often find difficult to access with any consistency “out there in […]
by Clare Grady 5/29/18 I am especially grateful for today’s Gospel reading. I feel that I have been living it and I want to share my experience, strength, and hope…MK 10:28-31: Peter began to say to Jesus, “We have given up everything and followed you: Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no […]
A reflection written by Martha Hennessy at the Glynn County Detention Center during the week before her release to home confinement: In southern Georgia it is nearing the end of May and we are approaching the eighth week of incarceration at Camden and Glynn County jails, following the Kings Bay Plowshares action. I am reading […]
[This arrived in the mail a month late from the jail.] Earth Day Reflection by Martha Hennessy In April 1968, as a 13-year-old student in rural Vermont, the news of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s killing cast a dark shadow on my hopes for a more just world. My mother and I knew that a great spiritual leader had been taken […]
A BRIEF REACTION TO BEING CHARGED WITH 3 FELONIES AND A MISDEMEANOR BY THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT, BRUNSWICK COUNTY, GEORGIA May 3, 2018 Once again, a federal court has plainly identified itself as another hall of the Pentagon by turning a blind eye to the criminal and murderous enterprise from which the Pentagon has repeatedly […]