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Jack Kennevan visited with prisoners at the Hamilton County Justice Center (Ohio) nearly every week for over a decade. After retiring from an inspiring career as a high school teacher, coach, and principal, he volunteered as a chaplain through Transforming Jail Ministries. Jack wrote 290 letters, one a week to men and women with whom he met and anyone who requested his letters. Prisoners then had something upon which to reflect back in their cell after talking with Jack at a simple table with two chairs. Conversations with Prisoners is a selection of about 40 of those letters. Jack's letters and conversations offer windows into jail/prison-life in the United States and the importance for us as citizens to imagine new possibilities for our world inspired by a love and deep respect Jack shares with all he encounters, all he calls brothers and sisters.

Through fifty homilies spanning forty years, Richard Bollman, S.J., invites life experience to open up the ways and the Word of God. Drawing on poetry, reflections from other thinkers, international happenings, and daily life, Richard welcomes growth within and among us, all who gather to know a deeper pulse of life. The brief 'back story' beginning these homilies could very well be required reading for all who wish to learn to meet people with the Word and be changed by it. "And finally you're free, you're new, different from where you were, and life itself starts to lead you, spreading out before you." -- from the bookRichard Bollman, S.J., is a Jesuit priest living in Cincinnati. he works there in retreat and spiritual ministry, and assists with worship at Bellarmine Chapel where he was once pastor. Ordained in 1969, he served also at the University of San Francisco through 1979, and as Director of the Jesuit Renewal Center in Milford until 1991.

A Wildly Sensual YAHWEH is Volume 0 of The Naked Path of Prophet series: The Bible is a very complicated book. It can inspire love and friendship. It can breed hate and genocide.As we approach a text like Genesis alone, we must come to know that there are competing voices there, different storycrafters and editors-through-the-centuries, all with very different points of view.Listen carefully to Genesis as scholars do and you'll come to know a distinctive gathering of storycrafting voices offering a similar, freeing viewpoint. Scholars used to call that 'voice' the Yahwist, or J for short. Today we have a better sense that it's many people telling stories in the same vein over the span of a few centuries. I call this gathering 'the band of YAH'...with their very queer way of understanding YAHWEH and YAHWEH's ecstatic people, the prophets, who have very different maps of reality than the priests and kings and authority-minded with their hierarchical and fascist mindsets.Greater than ever, as wars continue to break out and as we humans seem so intent on destroying our own chances for survival on Earth, we have dire need to disentangle fascist-motivations from love-motivations in every religion...indeed in every interaction. May we have the courage to respond with love...perhaps motivated by an ecstatic experience, YAHWEH.

This book of poetry chronicles a year of life lived in spiritual retreat at the Jesuit Spiritual Center in Milford, Ohio. Inspired by Thoreau's "Walden," the Jesuit spiritual tradition, and the theopoetical writings of Rubem Alves, Stephen Dunn, and Dante's La Vita Nuova, this book is an indispensable companion for anyone seeking moments of spiritual community, retreat, and discernment during a structured retreat or within their day-to-day lives.Evan R. Underbrink is a poet, author, and academic in the field of Theology and the Arts. He has studied at Duke Divinity School, the University of North Carolina, Boston College, and Harvard Divinity school. His primary passion is looking at how art allows us to interact with the divine, deeper reality of the world and ourselves. He is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.