{"product_id":"the-deliverance-of-hope-the-spiritual-discipline-of-writing-people-on-death-row-paperback","title":"The Deliverance of Hope: The Spiritual Discipline of Writing People on Death Row - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Ramage\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeff Hood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Deliverance of Hope\u003c\/em\u003e is a guide to one of the most quietly radical acts a person can undertake: writing letters to someone on death row. Authors Wendy Ramage and Jeff Hood...veterans of this practice...don't sell it as charity work or activism. They call it what it is: a spiritual discipline that will cost you something, and give you far more than you expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on years of correspondence and the voices of people living under sentence of death, Ramage and Hood walk readers through the world of death row with unflinching honesty...the isolation, the time distortion, the spiritual violence of a system designed to make people disappear. They explore what it takes to show up consistently for another human being across concrete and razor wire: how to write, what to write, how to hold boundaries, how to sit with grief and helplessness, and how to keep going when the system interrupts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about saving anyone. It is a book about becoming more human...and about refusing, one letter at a time, to let the state have the last word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Deliverance of Hope\u003c\/em\u003e is for anyone drawn to this work from any direction: faith, justice, loneliness, curiosity, or the stubborn sense that some things simply should not be allowed to stand unchallenged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYour words can become a lifeline. This book shows you how to send them.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Wendy Ramage\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Dean of The Institute for Death Row Correspondence. She holds degrees in Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work and works as an empowerment life coach specializing in grief and life transitions. Her abolition work grows from a lifelong commitment to human dignity and ending the death penalty.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood\u003c\/strong\u003e is a nationally recognized Old Catholic priest, public theologian, and author of over one hundred books, with media appearances ranging from NPR and CNN to Rolling Stone and GQ. He serves nationally as a death row spiritual advisor and has been present at more executions in more states than any other spiritual advisor in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377884881203,"sku":"9798235204805","price":25.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/axE_YnO5KC9798235204805.webp?v=1781933008","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-deliverance-of-hope-the-spiritual-discipline-of-writing-people-on-death-row-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}