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A jail chaplain and minister to migrant communities chronicles his spiritual journey to the margins of society and reveals a subversive God who's on the loose beyond the walls of the church, pursuing those who are unwanted by the world.
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"When Chris first told a story on my show, "Snap Judgment," it was so beautiful I wept. But I kept asking for more. This book proves what we believe at Snap--stories can lure you into places you've never imagined, and maybe even change your life."--Glynn Washington, Host and Creator of NPR's Snap Judgment
""Wanted" sings the gospel song that's echoed through the centuries, from Paul and Silas' jail cell to Fannie Lou Hamer's. I haven't read a book since Tattoos on the Heart that made me cry and shout "Amen!" as much as this one."--Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of "Strangers at My Door"
""Wanted" is inspiring and eye opening, at turns heartwrenching and funny. It is stunningly written, thought provoking, and will touch readers in the darkest depths of their souls."--Pop Culture Nerd
""Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders," made skeptical me cry, sit upright, and see my reality anew... it grabs readers by the neck and forces them to see their own soul in the real world, the actual world that exists."--Alissa Wilkinson, "Christianity Today"
""Wanted.".. is a beacon of faith and hope, but it's also a compelling commentary on the U.S penal system and the callous disregard for the bodies and souls crushed by it"--Shelf Awareness
A liberating, transformative chronicle of how spirituality can foster inspiration and hope while emboldening the downtrodden through their darkest days. --Kirkus"
A powerful and moving account of what it means to actually engage a hurting world. --Bill McKibben, author of "Deep Economy""
As a former jail chaplain myself, I have yet to find a book that is so well written, so honest, and so non-na?ve-and yet compassionate-about the kind of world we live in! You will live in your own world with greater courage if you read this book. --Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation and author of "Falling Upward""
God has a remarkable ability to show up anywhere. Blessed are those, like Chris Hoke, who have eyes to see, and who tell the stories so that we may come to believe. "WANTED" is beautiful writing and powerful testimony to God s living presence in forgotten places. --Sara Miles, author of "Take This Bread" and "City of God""
Chris Hoke is what I would call a Christ-follower. He follows the path that Jesus walked, eyes open, hands ready to help, heart ready to break. The result is life-changing-for him, for those he serves, and for us if we have ears to hear. --Scott Cairns, author of "Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems""
"Wanted" sings the gospel song that s echoed through the centuries, from Paul and Silas jail cell to Fannie Lou Hamer s. I haven t read a book since Tattoos on the Heart that made me cry and shout Amen! as much as this one. --Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of "Strangers at My Door""
Hoke eloquently articulates the erasure of margins and the birth of a new inclusion-where the demonizing ceases and the disposable are no longer tossed aside. It is a book which refines one s own heart to meet the brokenness of the other and discovery your own. --Greg Boyle, S.J., Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and author of "Tattoos on the Heart""
The psalmist says that God hides himself in the dark. That s exactly where Chris goes looking for him. This search among the most maligned of us is bound to become a spiritual classic. --Dennis Covington, author of "Salvation on Sand Mountain," National Book Award finalist"
Taut, tart, furious, merciful, tender, blunt, searingly piercingly unforgettably honest...and sometimes so funny I sprained an eyeball laughing. I never read a book so tender with its ears and so honest with its tongue. You ll never ever forget it. Really and truly. --Brian Doyle, author of "Mink River""
One of the most inspired answers I ve found to the WWJD? query is beautifully and forcefully displayed in Chris Hoke s Wanted ....Wondrous. --Spirituality & Health"
"Wanted" is inspiring and eye opening, at turns heartwrenching and funny. It is stunningly written, thought provoking, and will touch readers in the darkest depths of their souls. --Pop Culture Nerd"
This book is imbued with dignity, prayer, and an understanding that relationships require forgiveness, on both sides. "Wanted" is a beautiful reflection on what the life of faith looks like in action. --Sojourners"
Every so often our spirits are lifted even higher by compassionate, courageous, and creative souls who give all they ve got to prisoners in work modeled after the servant ministry of Jesus. Wanted describes such a ministry, and we highly recommend it to you. --Spirituality & Practice"
Wandering, surprising....as Hoke tells story after story, he surprises the reader with his emotional honesty and his unswerving commitment to peeling back layers of the narrative. --Books & Culture"
Dark and yet hope-filled....Raw and real, this is a book you don t want to miss if you re serious about being a Christian. --The Dubious Disciple"
"Wanted.".. is a beacon of faith and hope, but it s also a compelling commentary on the U.S penal system and the callous disregard for the bodies and souls crushed by it --Shelf Awareness"
... it positively gleams with God s presence as it goes to one of the darkest corners of modern American society: jail. --Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, "Englewood Review of Books""
These are stories that the American church needs to hear...We all need to be reminded of God s priorities; at how wide, how deep, and how long His love runs. We all need glimmers of His elusive movement to have the courage to journey onward. --Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, "Englewood Review of Books""
When Chris first told a story on my show, "Snap Judgment," it was so beautiful I wept. But I kept asking for more. This book proves what we believe at Snap stories can lure you into places you ve never imagined, and maybe even change your life. --Glynn Washington, Host and Creator of NPR's Snap Judgment"
I m not Christian but Chris has proven that all people even the most troubled are worth our intrusions, even as passersby, as migrants, as souls among souls. Thank you for this moving story. More people should have such courage, such character. --Luis J. Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and author of "Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." and "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing""
Hoke meets the lonely young men of his valley who are in so many ways unwanted and he advocates for them, loves them, calls them brother. Beautiful, unsettling, sometimes laugh out loud funny....For all their darkness, these stories have given me hope like nothing else I ve read in recent memory. --Fred Bahnson, author of "Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith""
"Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders" (HarperOne, 2015) is intense from the very first page. Chris Hoke has taken the reluctant prophet theme so prominent in Scripture (Jonah, Moses, Jeremiah, etc.), crossed it with true crime, and written the results down. --WORLD News Group"
"A liberating, transformative chronicle of how spirituality can foster inspiration and hope while emboldening the downtrodden through their darkest days."--Kirkus
"When Chris first told a story on my show, Snap Judgment, it was so beautiful I wept. But I kept asking for more. This book proves what we believe at Snap--stories can lure you into places you've never imagined, and maybe even change your life."--Glynn Washington, Host and Creator of NPR's Snap Judgment
"I'm not Christian but Chris has proven that all people--even the most troubled--are worth our intrusions, even as passersby, as migrants, as souls among souls. Thank you for this moving story. More people should have such courage, such character."--Luis J. Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and author of Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. and It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
"A powerful and moving account of what it means to actually engage a hurting world."--Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy
"As a former jail chaplain myself, I have yet to find a book that is so well written, so honest, and so non-na?ve-and yet compassionate-about the kind of world we live in! You will live in your own world with greater courage if you read this book."--Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation and author of Falling Upward
"God has a remarkable ability to show up anywhere. Blessed are those, like Chris Hoke, who have eyes to see, and who tell the stories so that we may come to believe. WANTED is beautiful writing and powerful testimony to God's living presence in forgotten places."--Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and City of God
"Chris Hoke is what I would call a Christ-follower. He follows the path that Jesus walked, eyes open, hands ready to help, heart ready to break. The result is life-changing-for him, for those he serves, and for us if we have ears to hear."--Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems
"Wanted sings the gospel song that's echoed through the centuries, from Paul and Silas' jail cell to Fannie Lou Hamer's. I haven't read a book since Tattoos on the Heart that made me cry and shout "Amen!" as much as this one."--Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of Strangers at My Door
"Hoke meets the lonely young men of his valley who are in so many ways unwanted--and he advocates for them, loves them, calls them brother. Beautiful, unsettling, sometimes laugh out loud funny....For all their darkness, these stories have given me hope like nothing else I've read in recent memory."--Fred Bahnson, author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
" Hoke eloquently articulates the erasure of margins and the birth of a new inclusion-where the demonizing ceases and the disposable are no longer tossed aside. It is a book which refines one's own heart to meet the brokenness of the other and discovery your own. "--Greg Boyle, S.J., Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and author of Tattoos on the Heart
"The psalmist says that God hides himself in the dark. That's exactly where Chris goes looking for him. This search among the most maligned of us is bound to become a spiritual classic."--Dennis Covington, author of Salvation on Sand Mountain, National Book Award finalist
"Taut, tart, furious, merciful, tender, blunt, searingly piercingly unforgettably honest...and sometimes so funny I sprained an eyeball laughing. I never read a book so tender with its ears and so honest with its tongue. You'll never ever forget it. Really and truly."--Brian Doyle, author of Mink River
"One of the most inspired answers I've found to the WWJD? query is beautifully and forcefully displayed in Chris Hoke's 'Wanted'....Wondrous."--Spirituality & Health
"Wanted is inspiring and eye opening, at turns heartwrenching and funny. It is stunningly written, thought provoking, and will touch readers in the darkest depths of their souls."--Pop Culture Nerd
"This book is imbued with dignity, prayer, and an understanding that relationships require forgiveness, on both sides. Wanted is a beautiful reflection on what the life of faith looks like in action."--Sojourners
"Every so often our spirits are lifted even higher by compassionate, courageous, and creative souls who give all they've got to prisoners in work modeled after the servant ministry of Jesus. Wanted describes such a ministry, and we highly recommend it to you."--Spirituality & Practice
"Wandering, surprising....as Hoke tells story after story, he surprises the reader with his emotional honesty and his unswerving commitment to peeling back layers of the narrative."--Books & Culture
"Dark and yet hope-filled....Raw and real, this is a book you don't want to miss if you're serious about being a Christian."--The Dubious Disciple
"Wanted... is a beacon of faith and hope, but it's also a compelling commentary on the U.S penal system and the callous disregard for the bodies and souls crushed by it"--Shelf Awareness
..". it positively gleams with God's presence as it goes to one of the darkest corners of modern American society: jail."--Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, Englewood Review of Books
"Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders (HarperOne, 2015) is intense from the very first page. Chris Hoke has taken the reluctant prophet theme so prominent in Scripture (Jonah, Moses, Jeremiah, etc.), crossed it with true crime, and written the results down."--WORLD News Group
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""Wanted" sings the gospel song that's echoed through the centuries, from Paul and Silas' jail cell to Fannie Lou Hamer's. I haven't read a book since Tattoos on the Heart that made me cry and shout "Amen!" as much as this one."--Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of "Strangers at My Door"
""Wanted" is inspiring and eye opening, at turns heartwrenching and funny. It is stunningly written, thought provoking, and will touch readers in the darkest depths of their souls."--Pop Culture Nerd
""Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders," made skeptical me cry, sit upright, and see my reality anew... it grabs readers by the neck and forces them to see their own soul in the real world, the actual world that exists."--Alissa Wilkinson, "Christianity Today"
""Wanted.".. is a beacon of faith and hope, but it's also a compelling commentary on the U.S penal system and the callous disregard for the bodies and souls crushed by it"--Shelf Awareness
A liberating, transformative chronicle of how spirituality can foster inspiration and hope while emboldening the downtrodden through their darkest days. --Kirkus"
A powerful and moving account of what it means to actually engage a hurting world. --Bill McKibben, author of "Deep Economy""
As a former jail chaplain myself, I have yet to find a book that is so well written, so honest, and so non-na?ve-and yet compassionate-about the kind of world we live in! You will live in your own world with greater courage if you read this book. --Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation and author of "Falling Upward""
God has a remarkable ability to show up anywhere. Blessed are those, like Chris Hoke, who have eyes to see, and who tell the stories so that we may come to believe. "WANTED" is beautiful writing and powerful testimony to God s living presence in forgotten places. --Sara Miles, author of "Take This Bread" and "City of God""
Chris Hoke is what I would call a Christ-follower. He follows the path that Jesus walked, eyes open, hands ready to help, heart ready to break. The result is life-changing-for him, for those he serves, and for us if we have ears to hear. --Scott Cairns, author of "Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems""
"Wanted" sings the gospel song that s echoed through the centuries, from Paul and Silas jail cell to Fannie Lou Hamer s. I haven t read a book since Tattoos on the Heart that made me cry and shout Amen! as much as this one. --Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of "Strangers at My Door""
Hoke eloquently articulates the erasure of margins and the birth of a new inclusion-where the demonizing ceases and the disposable are no longer tossed aside. It is a book which refines one s own heart to meet the brokenness of the other and discovery your own. --Greg Boyle, S.J., Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and author of "Tattoos on the Heart""
The psalmist says that God hides himself in the dark. That s exactly where Chris goes looking for him. This search among the most maligned of us is bound to become a spiritual classic. --Dennis Covington, author of "Salvation on Sand Mountain," National Book Award finalist"
Taut, tart, furious, merciful, tender, blunt, searingly piercingly unforgettably honest...and sometimes so funny I sprained an eyeball laughing. I never read a book so tender with its ears and so honest with its tongue. You ll never ever forget it. Really and truly. --Brian Doyle, author of "Mink River""
One of the most inspired answers I ve found to the WWJD? query is beautifully and forcefully displayed in Chris Hoke s Wanted ....Wondrous. --Spirituality & Health"
"Wanted" is inspiring and eye opening, at turns heartwrenching and funny. It is stunningly written, thought provoking, and will touch readers in the darkest depths of their souls. --Pop Culture Nerd"
This book is imbued with dignity, prayer, and an understanding that relationships require forgiveness, on both sides. "Wanted" is a beautiful reflection on what the life of faith looks like in action. --Sojourners"
Every so often our spirits are lifted even higher by compassionate, courageous, and creative souls who give all they ve got to prisoners in work modeled after the servant ministry of Jesus. Wanted describes such a ministry, and we highly recommend it to you. --Spirituality & Practice"
Wandering, surprising....as Hoke tells story after story, he surprises the reader with his emotional honesty and his unswerving commitment to peeling back layers of the narrative. --Books & Culture"
Dark and yet hope-filled....Raw and real, this is a book you don t want to miss if you re serious about being a Christian. --The Dubious Disciple"
"Wanted.".. is a beacon of faith and hope, but it s also a compelling commentary on the U.S penal system and the callous disregard for the bodies and souls crushed by it --Shelf Awareness"
... it positively gleams with God s presence as it goes to one of the darkest corners of modern American society: jail. --Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, "Englewood Review of Books""
These are stories that the American church needs to hear...We all need to be reminded of God s priorities; at how wide, how deep, and how long His love runs. We all need glimmers of His elusive movement to have the courage to journey onward. --Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, "Englewood Review of Books""
When Chris first told a story on my show, "Snap Judgment," it was so beautiful I wept. But I kept asking for more. This book proves what we believe at Snap stories can lure you into places you ve never imagined, and maybe even change your life. --Glynn Washington, Host and Creator of NPR's Snap Judgment"
I m not Christian but Chris has proven that all people even the most troubled are worth our intrusions, even as passersby, as migrants, as souls among souls. Thank you for this moving story. More people should have such courage, such character. --Luis J. Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and author of "Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." and "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing""
Hoke meets the lonely young men of his valley who are in so many ways unwanted and he advocates for them, loves them, calls them brother. Beautiful, unsettling, sometimes laugh out loud funny....For all their darkness, these stories have given me hope like nothing else I ve read in recent memory. --Fred Bahnson, author of "Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith""
"Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders" (HarperOne, 2015) is intense from the very first page. Chris Hoke has taken the reluctant prophet theme so prominent in Scripture (Jonah, Moses, Jeremiah, etc.), crossed it with true crime, and written the results down. --WORLD News Group"
"A liberating, transformative chronicle of how spirituality can foster inspiration and hope while emboldening the downtrodden through their darkest days."--Kirkus
"When Chris first told a story on my show, Snap Judgment, it was so beautiful I wept. But I kept asking for more. This book proves what we believe at Snap--stories can lure you into places you've never imagined, and maybe even change your life."--Glynn Washington, Host and Creator of NPR's Snap Judgment
"I'm not Christian but Chris has proven that all people--even the most troubled--are worth our intrusions, even as passersby, as migrants, as souls among souls. Thank you for this moving story. More people should have such courage, such character."--Luis J. Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and author of Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. and It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
"A powerful and moving account of what it means to actually engage a hurting world."--Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy
"As a former jail chaplain myself, I have yet to find a book that is so well written, so honest, and so non-na?ve-and yet compassionate-about the kind of world we live in! You will live in your own world with greater courage if you read this book."--Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation and author of Falling Upward
"God has a remarkable ability to show up anywhere. Blessed are those, like Chris Hoke, who have eyes to see, and who tell the stories so that we may come to believe. WANTED is beautiful writing and powerful testimony to God's living presence in forgotten places."--Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and City of God
"Chris Hoke is what I would call a Christ-follower. He follows the path that Jesus walked, eyes open, hands ready to help, heart ready to break. The result is life-changing-for him, for those he serves, and for us if we have ears to hear."--Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems
"Wanted sings the gospel song that's echoed through the centuries, from Paul and Silas' jail cell to Fannie Lou Hamer's. I haven't read a book since Tattoos on the Heart that made me cry and shout "Amen!" as much as this one."--Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of Strangers at My Door
"Hoke meets the lonely young men of his valley who are in so many ways unwanted--and he advocates for them, loves them, calls them brother. Beautiful, unsettling, sometimes laugh out loud funny....For all their darkness, these stories have given me hope like nothing else I've read in recent memory."--Fred Bahnson, author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
" Hoke eloquently articulates the erasure of margins and the birth of a new inclusion-where the demonizing ceases and the disposable are no longer tossed aside. It is a book which refines one's own heart to meet the brokenness of the other and discovery your own. "--Greg Boyle, S.J., Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and author of Tattoos on the Heart
"The psalmist says that God hides himself in the dark. That's exactly where Chris goes looking for him. This search among the most maligned of us is bound to become a spiritual classic."--Dennis Covington, author of Salvation on Sand Mountain, National Book Award finalist
"Taut, tart, furious, merciful, tender, blunt, searingly piercingly unforgettably honest...and sometimes so funny I sprained an eyeball laughing. I never read a book so tender with its ears and so honest with its tongue. You'll never ever forget it. Really and truly."--Brian Doyle, author of Mink River
"One of the most inspired answers I've found to the WWJD? query is beautifully and forcefully displayed in Chris Hoke's 'Wanted'....Wondrous."--Spirituality & Health
"Wanted is inspiring and eye opening, at turns heartwrenching and funny. It is stunningly written, thought provoking, and will touch readers in the darkest depths of their souls."--Pop Culture Nerd
"This book is imbued with dignity, prayer, and an understanding that relationships require forgiveness, on both sides. Wanted is a beautiful reflection on what the life of faith looks like in action."--Sojourners
"Every so often our spirits are lifted even higher by compassionate, courageous, and creative souls who give all they've got to prisoners in work modeled after the servant ministry of Jesus. Wanted describes such a ministry, and we highly recommend it to you."--Spirituality & Practice
"Wandering, surprising....as Hoke tells story after story, he surprises the reader with his emotional honesty and his unswerving commitment to peeling back layers of the narrative."--Books & Culture
"Dark and yet hope-filled....Raw and real, this is a book you don't want to miss if you're serious about being a Christian."--The Dubious Disciple
"Wanted... is a beacon of faith and hope, but it's also a compelling commentary on the U.S penal system and the callous disregard for the bodies and souls crushed by it"--Shelf Awareness
..". it positively gleams with God's presence as it goes to one of the darkest corners of modern American society: jail."--Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, Englewood Review of Books
"Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders (HarperOne, 2015) is intense from the very first page. Chris Hoke has taken the reluctant prophet theme so prominent in Scripture (Jonah, Moses, Jeremiah, etc.), crossed it with true crime, and written the results down."--WORLD News Group
Wanted follows a restless young man from the sunny suburbs of his youth to the darker side of society in the rainy Northwest, where he finds the direct spiritual experience he's been seeking while volunteering as a night-shift chap-lain at a men's correctional facility. The jail becomes his portal to a mysterious world where gang members soon dub him their "pastor." As he comes to terms with this uncomfortable title--and embraces the role of a shepherd of black sheep--his adventures truly begin.
Hoke shares sublime tales--sometimes comic, other times heartbreaking--of sacred moments in unlikely situations: singing with someone who attempted suicide in the jail's isolation cell, dodging immigration and airport security with migrant farmworkers, and fly-fishing with tattooed gangsters. Set against the misty Washington landscape, Hoke's writing takes us with him as he gains and loses friends within the prison system, and even faces his own despair--as well as belovedness--on the back of a motorcycle racing through Guatemalan slums.
In these stories of "mystical portraiture," Hoke offers a new vision of the forgotten souls who have been cast into society's dumpsters, helping us see that beneath even the hardest criminal is a fragile de-sire to be wanted.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0062321374
- ISBN 13 9780062321374
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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