{"id":4118,"date":"2006-03-13T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T13:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/redemption.html"},"modified":"2006-03-13T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T13:09:49","slug":"redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/redemption.html","title":{"rendered":"Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Claude Muncey (who said he was going to blog on this, but hasn’t yet..<\/a>)<\/p>\n

From inmate to priest<\/a><\/p>\n

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James Tramel awakened Sunday in a prison cell. He went to sleep Sunday night in the rectory of a church he will help lead. <\/p>\n

It was a day of transformation for Tramel, 38, who is believed to be the first prison inmate ordained as an Episcopal priest. He was convicted more than 20 years ago of murdering a homeless man in a park. <\/p>\n

At the Berkeley church where he will live and serve as an assistant pastor, parishioners view him as a walking testament to the power of redemption. <\/p>\n

"God came through!" said Linda Finch Hicks, a 51-year-old member of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, an exquisitely refurbished Victorian structure in West Berkeley. <\/p>\n

"A lot of people have been working on this for a very long time. This is what church is about — Jesus gave us an opportunity for redemption, and it’s real." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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