Welcome to the Spiritual page



Spiritual Resources provides information about faith-based organizations, services, and opportunities of benefit to those reentering society from incarceration. The page will not prosetylize. It will strive to include views of all religious denominations, sects, and practices in their relations to reentry. Please communicate suggestions to rseidel1@rochester.rr.com. Also, check out Bob Crystal's prison ministry blog at Prison Ministry Reflections.

Principles: We recognize and affirm:

  1. The humanity of each person and reveal it in our work.
  2. The power of hope and activities designed to increase its possibilities.
  3. The promise of forgiveness.
  4. Personal and on-going spiritual relationships.
  5. The grace of compassion, charity, and honesty in all relationships.
  6. The spirit of open-heartedness, fair-mindedness, and acceptance among persons
    of all religious demonimations, sects, and practices in our work and communities.

Being Mindful

"Remember those in prison, as if you were there with them, and those who are being maltreated, for you are vulnerable too." Hebrews 13:3.
"When they kept on asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone at her." John 8:7.
Urban Ministry: Prison and ex-offender ministry resources from UrbanMinistry.org.