The United States has locked up more people in jails and prisons than any other country in the history of mankind. Mass incarceration is now a lucrative business for some. And that needs to change. But what does it mean to Rethink Incarceration? What role does the Church and every one of us play in helping reform and indeed, rethink our approach to mass incarceration. Join Craig and Ernest as today's guest helps us Rethink Incarceration from a Biblical standpoint.

Guest:

Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Love Mercy Do Justice initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won the 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press. 
An ordained minister, Dominique DuBois Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. He was executive pastor of New Hope Covenant Church in Oakland, California and also served in Oakland as the associate pastor of Convergence Covenant Church. He was also a campus minister at North Park University and the racial righteousness director for ECC’s ministry initiatives in the Pacific Southwest Conference. Gilliard earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Georgia State University and a master’s degree in history from East Tennessee State University, with an emphasis on race, gender, and class in the United States. He also earned an MDiv from North Park Seminary, where he served as an adjunct professor teaching Christian ethics, theology, and reconciliation.

Resource: Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

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