Matthew 25 Forum : “I was in prison and you visited me.”
Matthew 25: “I was in prison and you visited me”
Sunday, July 19th
Fellowship Hall, 9:15-10:15am
The Matthew 25 Forum continues on Sunday, July 19th. This month, we will discuss the issue of incarceration in the United States. Did you know one of the largest federal prisons in the country is less than an hour away from here in Butner? For this conversation, we will be joined by Dr. Aaron Griffith.
Aaron Griffith is a historian of American Christianity at Duke Divinity School. His work focuses on evangelicalism, religion and American politics, and religion and criminal justice. Dr. Griffith has taught in prisons through Project TURN at Duke Divinity and the Washington University in St. Louis Prison Education Project. He has also volunteered in prison ministry. His first book, God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America, was published in 2020 by Harvard University Press and won the 2022 “Best Book in History & Biography” award from Christianity Today. He is currently working on a book on the religious history of American policing.
