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God in the Name of Jesus Christ, 2022
“Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, once told His Jewish disciples: "I and the Father are... more “Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, once told His Jewish disciples: "I and the Father are One," and "Before Abraham was, I AM." Suppose Jesus Christ is the absolute religious phenomenon in union with God the Father. In that case, Christianity is a profoundly mystical religion. This book is about the intersection of Jesus Christ, God the Father, and Christianity. It argues that from the Old Testament to the New Testament, God has been responding to humanity as a Father. "God in the Name of Jesus Christ" explores God as a Father from the Old to the New Testament. The Fatherhood of God is a unique claim; Christianity is the only world religion that makes such a claim. God was a Father to Moses, David, and Paul and is still our Father in the name of Jesus Christ.”
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Prison Chaplains on the Beat in US and UK Prisons, 2021
This book is about prison chaplains and their care for aging, dying, and dead prisoners in the pe... more This book is about prison chaplains and their care for aging, dying, and dead prisoners in the penal systems of the United States and the United Kingdom. Since the 18th century, prison chaplains have served as priests and pastoral caregivers to prisoners and prison staff. The book traces the historical roles of prison chaplains in developing the managerial aspects of prisons, focusing on their presence, best practices, and ways of conceptualizing their prison experiences in the modern prison cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. While prison chaplains have historically provided care to prisoners, prison chaplaincy after 1970 has transformed. This book shows how prison chaplains face new challenges in caring for prisoners under the penal policies and practices of mass incarceration. Prison Chaplains on the Beat demonstrates how prison chaplains have conceptualized the practice of providing pastoral care to aging, dying, and dead prisoners in the United States and the United Kingdom through a person-centered approach. The book is both theoretical and empirical. The empirical aspect focuses on the prison experiences of 31 prison chaplains from the United States and Scotland. The theoretical aspect provides a conceptual understanding of the multi-faceted roles of prison chaplains in the United States, Scotland, and England and Wales. As research in comparative criminal justice, it argues that prison chaplains are fundamentally indispensable to prison management practices and managerial theories in the United States, Scotland, and England and Wales post-1970.
The goal is also to provide best practice development from an international perspective. It also provides insights about navigating the prison culture and caring for prisoners during COVID-19 and the post COVID-19 era.
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Nuggets From The Night: An Anthology of Poetic Expressions, 2020
"Nuggets from the Night" is an anthology of poetic expressions of over 200 poems written over fif... more "Nuggets from the Night" is an anthology of poetic expressions of over 200 poems written over fifteen years. It covers a wide range of topics, including prayer, social justice, love, solitude, politics, society, the world, slavery, lynching, self, meditation, existence, race, incarceration, criminalization, attraction, theology, spirituality, struggle, and victory. The poems are arranged to provide solace in the current climate of COVID-19. The goal of "Nuggets from the Night" is to help the reader find consolation and discover the value of looking within against the angst of COVID-19. Furthermore, the reader will find comfort in the chapter entitled "Meditations." Nuggets From The Night: An Anthology of Poetic Expression provides a critical socio-poetic narrative of the Transatlantic Slave Trade explored in "A Panegyric." Besides, as part of its central gems, the reader will explore and experience insights expressed in poetic forms.
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Locked Up and Locked Down: Multitude Lingers in Limbo Revised Edition , 2017
Locked Up and Locked Down: Multitude Lingers in Limbo is an existential account of mass incarcera... more Locked Up and Locked Down: Multitude Lingers in Limbo is an existential account of mass incarceration in the United States criminal justice system. It traces the development and consequences of the retributive justice system against the argument of George Hegel that “once a criminal always a criminal.” In contrast, the author draws on the works of Pope John Paul II, St. Augustine of Hippo, and W. E. B. Du Bois to make a case for the recognition of a “second chance” and respect for human dignity. Locked Up and Locked Down is a solution-based analysis of the disproportionate rates of incarceration of poor Whites, Blacks and Hispanics especially Black men, women, and youths. It is both descriptive and prescriptive. The goal is criminal justice reform that is holistic, smart, and restorative. As an appeal, it calls upon religious institutions in the United States including the Black Church to intervene. Locked Up and Locked Down is at the intersection of Philosophy, Theology and Social Ethics.
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Trotter Review, 2013
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The Canopy Forum: On the Interactions of Law and Religion, 2023
This article argues that the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black
man in Memphis, Tennesse... more This article argues that the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black
man in Memphis, Tennessee, at the hands of five Black police officers
(Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr.,
and Justin Smith) must also be interpreted from a historical, cultural, and
racial perspective. I advance three lenses through which an understanding of
Black police violence on Blacks can be derived: (1) slavery as the crux of the
matter (2) intra-Black racial dynamics (3) police culture and non-White inculturation in the United States.
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Canopy Forum: Center for the Study of Law and Religion: Emory University, 2022
This article provides a summary of the indispensable role of prison chaplains in caring for priso... more This article provides a summary of the indispensable role of prison chaplains in caring for prisoners but particularly, those that are aging, dying, and have died in the penal systems of the United States and the United Kingdom. It is an insightful read considering the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and the high rates of death of prisoners in jails and prisons in the US and the UK.
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Sunday Magazine: The Lord's Day Alliance , 2019
The Israelites celebrated the freedom to observe the Sabbath as a benefit of their escape from Eg... more The Israelites celebrated the freedom to observe the Sabbath as a benefit of their escape from Egyptian enslavement. Exodus theology and the liberation of mid-19th c. American blacks have likewise been an oft-recurring theme in the AME church’s rich collection of hymns. Before the Emancipation Proclamation, Sundays represented a time and place when enslaved blacks might gather in a community less (directly) overseen by others. After 1863, hymns reflected social constraints that still made life hard. Social Gospel hymns appeared in the 1900s.
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The Expository Times
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The Canopy Forum: The Center for the Study of Law and Religion Emory University, 2020
This presentation is a critical analysis of COVID-19, police brutality, and the Black Church thro... more This presentation is a critical analysis of COVID-19, police brutality, and the Black Church through an interpretive lens of the works of James Cone. It defines the prevailing climate of police brutality in the United States as an intersectional experience for the Black person. The experience is theological, political, economic and socio-culturally embodied as it considers the historic “amnesia” of American law enforcement toward Black humanity. COVID-19 and the disproportionate death of Black folks, and the intentional acts of police brutality against living Black reflect the historic angst of the “Black Experience.” Amid COVID-19 and police brutality, the Black Church exists as a standard of civility, justice, and refuge. Like the days of slavery and the “underground Church,” the Black Church remains a center of refuge in its strides to provide an anchor to the weary victims of this American dilemma. For Cone, the experience dates to slavery, especially the post-slavery era of White America’s public lynching of Black people ― “the lynching era” from 1880-1968.
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Trotter Review, University of Massachusetts , 2013
This is an empirical research conducted among 15 predominantly African American churches in Bosto... more This is an empirical research conducted among 15 predominantly African American churches in Boston/MA/USA, particularly in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan with two goals: First, to investigate the impact of the high rates of incarceration of Black men especially as breadwinners in these communities on the Black family structure. Secondly, to explore the relationship between religious conversion in the lives of prisoners and formerly incarcerated individuals, and reduction in recidivism and infraction as means of desistance.
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Black Theology: An International Journal, 2019
Locked Up and Locked Down: Multitude Lingers in Limbo is an important book for a time when an Ame... more Locked Up and Locked Down: Multitude Lingers in Limbo is an important book for a time when an American political regime targets Muslims through travel bans and uses detention centers to warehouse children separated from their parents by force. A number of scholars and activists have begun to discern and theorize the relationship between mass incarceration and immigration. In particular, in the U.S. jails, prisons and detention centres are techniques of social control that continue to perpetuate deep forms of injustice and misery. What distinguishes this book is that this relationship lies at the heart of the author’s experience who is also a scholar of law and divinity at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
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The Expository Times, 2017
The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission
Snider Gordon L. , The Use of the ... more The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission
Snider Gordon L. , The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission (Cambridge: James Clarke and Co, 2016. £22.50 pp. ix + 310. ISBN: 978-0-227-17602-3).
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Teaching Documents by George Walters-Sleyon, PhD, AFHEA
Teaching certificate from the Higher Education Academy of the UK as an "Associate Fellow." AFHEA
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The goal is also to provide best practice development from an international perspective. It also provides insights about navigating the prison culture and caring for prisoners during COVID-19 and the post COVID-19 era.
https://www.amazon.com/Nuggets-Night-Anthology-Poetic-Expressions/dp/B08QDSQH3C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=nuggets+from+the+night%3A+an+anthology+of+poetic+expressions&link_code=qs&qid=1611502978&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1&tag=mozilla-20
Papers by George Walters-Sleyon, PhD, AFHEA
man in Memphis, Tennessee, at the hands of five Black police officers
(Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr.,
and Justin Smith) must also be interpreted from a historical, cultural, and
racial perspective. I advance three lenses through which an understanding of
Black police violence on Blacks can be derived: (1) slavery as the crux of the
matter (2) intra-Black racial dynamics (3) police culture and non-White inculturation in the United States.
https://canopyforum.org/2023/06/27/the-black-police-officer-in-the-us-an-analysis-of-tyre-nichols-death/
Book Reviews by George Walters-Sleyon, PhD, AFHEA
Snider Gordon L. , The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission (Cambridge: James Clarke and Co, 2016. £22.50 pp. ix + 310. ISBN: 978-0-227-17602-3).
Teaching Documents by George Walters-Sleyon, PhD, AFHEA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNZHWK6M/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670191383&sr=8-1
www.georgewalterssleyon.com
The goal is also to provide best practice development from an international perspective. It also provides insights about navigating the prison culture and caring for prisoners during COVID-19 and the post COVID-19 era.
https://www.amazon.com/Nuggets-Night-Anthology-Poetic-Expressions/dp/B08QDSQH3C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=nuggets+from+the+night%3A+an+anthology+of+poetic+expressions&link_code=qs&qid=1611502978&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1&tag=mozilla-20
man in Memphis, Tennessee, at the hands of five Black police officers
(Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr.,
and Justin Smith) must also be interpreted from a historical, cultural, and
racial perspective. I advance three lenses through which an understanding of
Black police violence on Blacks can be derived: (1) slavery as the crux of the
matter (2) intra-Black racial dynamics (3) police culture and non-White inculturation in the United States.
https://canopyforum.org/2023/06/27/the-black-police-officer-in-the-us-an-analysis-of-tyre-nichols-death/
Snider Gordon L. , The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission (Cambridge: James Clarke and Co, 2016. £22.50 pp. ix + 310. ISBN: 978-0-227-17602-3).