Doing Time with God: Stories of Healing and Hope in our Prisons

Bill Dyer was robbed and shot at an ATM. Doing Time with God is one of the best books about restorative justice for those who want to experience what it is like to sit in on a restorative justice program in prison where offenders and crime victims share their stories with one another for healing and restoration.Nothing is predictable when this unlikely group comes together to share their stories of the true crimes that have devastated their lives...and reshaped them. Victim-survivors remember their losses and feel their pain; Offenders come face-to-face with the hurt they have caused, and open wounds from their own past. Walls of defensiveness and fear are knocked down by empathy and compassion, vulnerability and tears. Raw emotions flow. The way to peace is often intense, turbulent, and heartbreaking. Even when it’s not pretty, the journey is beautiful in its honesty... miraculous in the way it unfolds...divine in how it transforms lives. This Amazing Process Opens the Heart, Touches the Soul, and Renews the Mind. While reading Doing Time With God, you may experience these things happening in yourself. Discussion questions and an afterword by the author invite you to reflect on your own journey, discover new meaning, and expand this movement of Peace in your life.In addition to being one of the most moving restorative justice books, Doing Time With God is one of the best books for prisoners to read because victims of violence and prison inmates search for forgiveness, hope, and the love of God...and find them in one another."It shows the reconciling power of God's love in our openness and vulnerability - the way to Peace. Read this book. It is a wake-up call."-Sr. Helen Prejean, csj, Author of Dead Man WalkingIf you like Dean Man Walking, you will love this true crime book for the moving spiritual journey that takes place in prison.