"Shackles and chains speak miracles": Singing to God Behind Bars
— By Ron Jenkins, a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School who has taught ISM courses on prison and the arts since 2015. Ron was also an ISM fellow from 2022-23. “I had a life-sentence and I didn’t think I was coming home, sometimes I would feel like my life was over. I would go to the prison chapel, get on the piano, and just sing. That would be my way of talking to God.”