In the 1999 Sunderland P. Gardner lecture, Jack Ross describes his inspiring, life-long spiritual journey which led him to misery and transcendent joy in maximum security prisons as part of his non-violent witness to the power of truth. In the tradition of Friends reaching back over three hundred years, Jack shows how an experience of nature, political action, and a commitment to nonviolence, when combined with spiritual discipline, can lead people into shining moments that illuminate even the grimmest of lives.

In the 1999 Sunderland P. Gardner lecture, Jack Ross describes his inspiring, life-long spiritual journey which led him to misery and transcendent joy in maximum security prisons as part of his non-violent witness to the power of truth. In the tradition of Friends reaching back over three hundred years, Jack shows how an experience of nature, political action, and a commitment to nonviolence, when combined with spiritual discipline, can lead people into shining moments that illuminate even the grimmest of lives.