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The powerful story of a broken preacher's transformative experience learning about joy from death row prisoners, combined with profound handwritten responses from more than twenty men currently sentenced to die. As Pastor Dewey Williams serves and shepherds death row prisoners, their stories are unveiled, reminding him of his broken past. The testimonies and contemplations of those sentenced to death continue to bring Pastor Williams to his own place of healing, leading to a new understanding of joy in his life. This work reveals the power joy has to reach us all--the free and imprisoned…mehr

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The powerful story of a broken preacher's transformative experience learning about joy from death row prisoners, combined with profound handwritten responses from more than twenty men currently sentenced to die. As Pastor Dewey Williams serves and shepherds death row prisoners, their stories are unveiled, reminding him of his broken past. The testimonies and contemplations of those sentenced to death continue to bring Pastor Williams to his own place of healing, leading to a new understanding of joy in his life. This work reveals the power joy has to reach us all--the free and imprisoned alike. Unprecedented and revealing, Finding Joy on Death Row provides a window into the tragedies, hardships, and victories of those sentenced to die, ultimately encouraging us that we are loved, forgiven, and capable of change.
Autorenporträt
DEWEY WILLIAMS is Pastor of Mt. Bright Missionary Baptist Church in Hillsborough, North Carolina, a doctoral student at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, and a graduate of Duke Divinity School. In 2017, Dewey's sermon series Joy on Death Row won the top award at Yale Divinity School's Theology of Joy and the Good Life competition.