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The Honey Locust Tree: A Year of Insights with My Wife, the Quakers, and a Prison

The Honey Locust Tree: A Year of Insights with My Wife, the Quakers, and a Prison - Paperback

by James T. English
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Availability:In StockContributor:James T. EnglishTheme:Topical/FamilyPublish date:9/8/2026Pages:282
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Perry Hill PressISBN-13:9798995706106UPC:9798995706106Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Educators, Marriage & Long Term RelationshipsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.327Product ID:SCZB4D4T4D

A Story of Discovery, Insight, and Acceptance

When James English first hears about Quaker meetings inside Rhode Island's prison system in 1994, he is not looking for a ministry. He is searching for something harder to name.

Drawn by the Quaker belief in the inner light-the idea that goodness lives in every person-Jim joins a small group that holds meetings inside the Adult Correctional Institutions. In prison chapels and converted classrooms, he sits quietly with inmates and wrestles with a question that will not leave him: Does everyone possess an inner light? And if so, can it be found here?

The Honey Locust Tree is a deeply personal memoir about faith tested in unlikely places. Moving between prison walls, school classrooms, and the refuge of home with his wife, Betsey, Jim reflects on trust, justice, and the fragile yet resilient spark within us all.

Can the inner light be nurtured? Can it be extinguished? And what happens when we discover that our search for goodness in others is, in fact, a search within ourselves?

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Perry Hill PressISBN-13:9798995706106UPC:9798995706106Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Educators, Marriage & Long Term RelationshipsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.327Product ID:SCZB4D4T4D
English, James T.: - James English was raised in Grafton, Massachusetts. He has published short stories in the literary journals Hobart, The Drum, Litro, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Pangyrus, Post Road Magazine, and others. The Nebraska Review nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. He is at work on a novel about a young woman who goes in search of her father's killer in 1933.Jim has had short plays read at The Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, Massachusetts; TEDx Asbury Park, New Jersey; and The William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab, Independence, Kansas. The Radio Theatre Project produced his short play, "Saint Rita." Jim has a BA in French from Hamilton College, an MA in Spanish from Middlebury College, and an EdM from Harvard University.He lives in Providence with his wife, Betsey. They have three children and five grandchildren, and visit them in Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Ames, Iowa. More about Jim's writing can be found at JamesEnglishWriter.com.
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