Connection is resistance. 💛 Join in our campaign!
💻 Partnering with the prisoner education app Edovo on IL prison tablets, UUPMI will be a cost-free presence of compassionate theology, spiritual care, and educational resources to people in prison who often have little access to liberal religious perspectives.
📚 Through our Literary Bridges Project, people inside and outside prison walls engage in a shared book study experience that builds empathy, reflection, and human connection.
Together, these programs help move people from isolation toward belonging. Support Bridges of Belonging and help us expand this work across Illinois prisons. Join in and share our crowd-funding campaign with your friends, colleagues and neighbors. We belong to one another.
💻 Partnering with the prisoner education app Edovo on IL prison tablets, UUPMI will be a cost-free presence of compassionate theology, spiritual care, and educational resources to people in prison who often have little access to liberal religious perspectives.
📚 Through our Literary Bridges Project, people inside and outside prison walls engage in a shared book study experience that builds empathy, reflection, and human connection.
Together, these programs help move people from isolation toward belonging. Support Bridges of Belonging and help us expand this work across Illinois prisons. Join in and share our crowd-funding campaign with your friends, colleagues and neighbors. We belong to one another.
Abolition as Faith Formation
We are joining with our friends at the Church of the Larger Fellowship as partners in supporting the Congregational Study Action Issue, Abolition is Faith Formation. To learn more, go here.
Staff members Rev Allison Farnum and Keith Talley at One Year Celebration at Leighton Criminal Courthouse next to where UUPMI does jail ministry
Learning together
Be sure to check out the Minns Lecture Series from Spring 2024 by the Rev Jason Lydon, including topics like: The UUSC National Moratorium on Prison Construction: A Stepping Stone Toward Abolition, The Prisoners' Friend: Universalism and Punishment, and more!
If you are curious about prison abolition, check out this wonderful resource from Abolition Journal. With six sessions, you can go at your own pace.
Self-led Learning page lists historic offerings and more to help deepen your knowledge.
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Our Mission
We equip UU's in Illinois to transform institutions; partnering with and supporting people harmed by the prison industrial complex. Read More
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We need your help! We can sustain this ministry only if we have the support of people who care about our shared humanity with people in prison. Your contribution will help fund staff salaries, benefits, and travel costs, plus the costs of our education offerings to congregations.
The In Prison Ministry works to create a spiritual space where all people can come as they are and be affirmed in their inherent worth and dignity, no matter their identities or past harm they may have caused. The outside work of the UU Prison Ministry focuses on preparing our congregations to become radically welcoming places for formerly incarcerated and convicted people. We embrace the call of Unitarian Universalism to make our congregations accepting of all people. The Prison Ministry will also connect Unitarian Universalists to local and state-level policy initiatives that seek to build a world community of peace, liberty and justice for all. |
UU Prison Ministry of Illinois is a 501(c)3 organization, so your contributions are tax-deductible.
We are funded by a large network of Unitarian Universalists, as well as from grants from the Fund for Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility and Crossroads Fund - and grateful for all their support. |
This organization is in part funded by the Fund for Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility and the Crossroads Fund.
