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Threshold

By Scott Broker
Silhouette of a crowd of people wielding swords against a fiery background, as if to suggest war.

Once Upon a Time

By Natsume Sōseki, translated from Chinese by Ryan Choi
A fly sits on edge of a white flower's petal against a blurry green background.

Kingdom

By Brian Gyamfi

My Mother’s Stalker

By K-Ming Chang

Tanya Erzen

Tanya Erzen is a Soros Justice Media Fellow and is finishing a book about faith-based programs in American prisons and the conservative movement for prison reform. She is the author of Straight To Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement and Fanpire: The Twilight Saga and the Women Who Love It, and has written for The Nation, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and otheres. She teaches at the University of Puget Sound and directs a college program in the Washington Corrections Center for Women.
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In the Prison of New Beginnings

By Tanya Erzen October 15, 2014

In the South’s bloodiest prisons, Baptists say they can reform prisoners by turning them into missionaries.

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