Prologue Hello, I am TroyDavis. You killed me on September 21, 2011. You wanted to kill me at 7 p.m., but it was 11:08 before your Georgia venom took me down. Now I walk your streets with the poor and homeless and haunt your gated “communities” while you drink too much wine and gorge yourselves [...]
September 7, 2011 – 3:56 pm
Tony Lee Green, 102340, is our adopted son in prison. Below is a Cry from prison: June 17th 2011 My “M”[Murphy] and I have more than just mom and son in common; we are both struggling for a few more years of life on God’s earth and with our loved ones…. …it’s been so hot! [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 27, No. 3 Editor’s note: Angola Bound II was first published in Journal for Preachers, Volume XXXI, Number 1, Advent, 2007. St. Francisville, Louisiana 8:30 AM Central Time Birdman Books and Coffee Yesterday Murphy and I departed the Three V Motor Court (the oldest motor lodge in America) for the [...]
Hospitality vol. 23, no.7 Prisoner Thony Lee Green, 102340, is a partner at the Open Door Community. For more than 20 years Murphy and I have traveled to Angola, Louisiana, to visit him for a few hours of loving tender time. Others from our little circle of love and dance have reached and [...]
Hospitality, vol. 23, no. 4 Our train stopped with a jolt on a side track. We waited without a word. We were afraid to ask, for the answer might shift the world in which we seek to have our say before the long and final silence which keeps tapping on our shoulders. Finally [...]
February 1, 2004 – 4:05 pm
Hospitality Vol. 23, no. 2 I am a young man, but I could be old. Expecting death at 7 PM, Murphy and I went Buickwise to Georgia’s Death Row visiting area. Lots of family and lots of time and talk as the clock ticked toward death. Elephant-like death-squad men rubbed their hands and never [...]
Hospitality, vol. 22, no. 5 I. Giving and Receiving In all this I have given you an example that by such work [manual labor with no desire for riches or fashionable clothes] we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, ‘It is more blessed to give [...]
November 1, 2002 – 4:39 pm
I Believe In Redemption: A Justice-Seeking Lawyer Speaks By Amy Harwell Letter to the Editor: Eduard Loring Hospitality November, 2002 Vol. 21, no. 11 Dear Amy, The sky is mourning this morning. Humidity is its burden. Slight raindrops, gentle like sparrow tears, linger and disappear within the earth, like bone and bodies going into [...]
Hospitality Vol. 21, no.6 Gidget is out of jail again! “Liberty to captives,” Jesus says, and is our mission. “Let the oppressed go free,” the face of God continues. Jesus’s mouth is full of his mentor Isaiah’s words. “Welcome home, Gidget!” has been ringing up and down our hallways all week, and resounding [...]
January 1, 2002 – 2:04 pm
Hospitality Vol. 21, no.1 Recently I knelt beside Murphy’s bed and held her hand; I helped her breathe, deeply and regularly, as I did 22 years ago when Hannah came reluctantly from womb to world. Five times the needle was plunged deep into her back. Pain and hope battled all over the bed [...]
