CHRIS HOKE

Anti-Prison Resurrection Organizer | Author | Speaker

The official homepage for Chris Hoke--Underground Ministries Executive Director, prison chaplain, gang pastor, and writer in Washington's Skagit Valley.

ARTICLES + ESSAYS + INTERVIEWS

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Resurrection is a movement: A call to recover the original Easter vision in the age of mass incarceration

Presbyterian Outlook

One Parish One Prisoner: Every church a local resurrection community

Presbyterian Outlook

Kinship In Lockdown America: Learning With the Incarcerated Through Quarantine & Reckoning

Plough

“A F**king Delight”: One Parish One Prisoner and Community Repair

Plough

Kyle Rittenhouse Was Acquitted. My Friends Got Gang Enhancements

Sojourners

Beneath the Beautiful Skin of the Earth: An Interview with Chris Hoke of Underground Ministries

Christ+Cascadia

Bad Guys With No Backstories Are Our National Addiction: A Gang Chaplain on “JOKER”

Medium

Exchanging Letters with People In Hell

Christian Century

How the Light Gets In: On Attention & the Grotesque

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One Parish One Prisoner: A Proposal

Christian Century

Gangsters, Swastikas, Tweakers  & Permaculture

Modern Farmer

The Faith of the ‘Killable People’: A Review

CT

Through the Gates of Hades: A Review of Dennis Covington

CT

Hell Yes I’d Be Weeping and Gnashing My Teeth: A Jail Chaplain's Story (Excerpt from WANTED)

Christian Century

The Secret Lives of Salmon and Gangsters

The Drake

Saint Death and Easter

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Monasticism In Lockdown America

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Part 1: Cells

Part 2: Bowing

Part 3: Burpees

Part 4: Asceticism

Part 5: Holy Elders

Part 6: Icons

Part 7: Holy Fool

Part 8: Psalms

Part 8: Psalms, Cont.

The Christ-Bearer: Saint Christopher Revisited

Portland

Hearts Like Radios

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Mug Shots of God's Presence (Excerpt from WANTED)

Red Letter Christians

How to Defy the World: An Interview with WANTED author Chris Hoke

Sojourners

Tattoos and Bright Lights: Inside Guatemala's Gang Prisons

Sojourners

Jesus' Barrio: Inmates As Apostles

Christian Century

Four Questions with Chris Hoke: An Interview

Sojourners

The Immigrant Days of Christmas

Sojourners

In Search of Sacred Space

GEEZ

Being Received by Teddy: Advent

The Other Journal

Invading Hell

Conspire!