Soros Justice Fellowships
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Harmon Wray
2005
Vanderbilt Divinity School
The southern United States—also known as the Bible Belt—has long been the home of the nation’s most retributive, ineffective, and biased criminal justice systems and attitudes, shaped largely by the region’s religious institutions. Wray, a lay minister and advocate rooted in the South and its religious culture as well as in the national network of organizations seeking deep changes in our society’s response to crime and violence, will begin a Program in Faith and Criminal Justice through Vanderbilt Divinity School. He will open a dialogue with leaders of national and Southern regional faith communities to enlist their partnership in developing and implementing an alternative model for what faithful, responsible, and progressive ministry would look like in the context of crime and the criminal justice system. His focus will be on training, enabling, and resourcing them to better lead their constituencies into personal and prophetic engagement designed to elevate the public debate on these issues and gradually help lead to a transformation of the criminal justice system. First-year efforts will also include developing an effective strategy for ensuring long-range continuation funding.
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Soros Justice Fellowships
