Under The Pilcrow

The Pilcrow ¶ What the Pilcrow!? The Pilcrow is the name of the paragraph symbol we hardly ever see any more unless you look at the formatting in a word document. Largely unseen but yet affects every form of communication that we know of today.You don’t even see the Pilcrow on your keyboard! It’s still there but anonymously known as Alt 0182 (Hold down alt key and type 0182). Every time you see a paragraph indentation that's pilcrow, every time you put a hard return in a document that's pilcrow. Whether a modified or block style of writing, that introductory thought that's pilcrow. The Onesimus Letters starts off with the Pilcrow to acknowledge its presence in spite of its invisibility. It is analogous to the incarcerated citizen whose presence and impact affects everything around us but yet they are invisible, out of sight, out of mind. Nevertheless our highways, higher education institutions, vocational institutions, religious institutions, state agencies, schools, criminal justice system, hotels, terraces, governor’s offices, fire departments and the list can go on are saturated with products quoted, designed, produced, QC’ed, packaged and shipped by the women and men incarcerated in the Wisconsin prison system. Under the Pilcrow will be our introductory thought a paragraph moment if you will concerning the people served by this endeavor acknowledging your presence and impact beyond the walls, the wire and the gate. Recognizing your humanity and embracing the fact that Jesus became the worst of us and experienced the worst for us so that we could have access to God’s redemptive purpose for us. True Re-entry starts with Relationship.