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precious heart ... truly,
where all our treasure is
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 Michael G. Maness, Managing Editor

I was District TX-08 Leader
plan endorsed by Woodville & Tyler County

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Harvard Classics Outline

 

Stop the Fools' Parade of State Ordination of Child Torturers & Executive Culture of Cover Ups Cultivating This for 25 Years--Lately Led by Bryan Collier

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A Dissertation on Trust & Evangelical Naïveté

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TDCJ Delusions Deposition Letter to 115 stakeholders on 1-15-2024  
outlining history of documents spanning 25 years

Can You Hear My Pain Now?   
Making Theology Relevant in the Modern World

edited by Michael G. Maness & Kevaughn Mattis

Foreword by
Prof. Gerald R. McDermott,

Anglican Chair of Divinity, Director of the Institute of Anglican Studies;
Beeson Divinity School, Sanford University, Birmingham, Alabama;
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. 

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Used with Permission
TDCJ has regularly deleted critical sociological records for 25-plus years, including records of chaplaincy

How We Saved Texas
Prison Chaplaincy 2011
Immeasurable Value of Religion, Volunteers and Their Chaplains  

Forewords by

Frank E. Graham, Founder,
      Chapel of Hope

Jerry A. Madden, Chair,
    Texas House Committee
    on Corrections 2011

Carol S. Vance, Former Chair,
    TBCJ; Harris County
    District Attorney, 1966-79

Dr. Keith Bellamy, Minister,
     Woodville Church of Chris

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Journal Site of Book's Origin
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Ocean Devotions

From the Hold of Charles H. Spurgeon
Master of Mariner Metaphors

366 unique devotions from the OCEAN and SAILING compiled and edited from sermons of Spurgeon

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Would You Lie To Save a Life?  
A Theology on the Ethics of Love

Commander Bucher of the USS Pueblo lied to save the lives of his men. What is the absolutely "right" choice?  Love works in hell on earth - and much more. 

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Will of God by Henry Wright
condensed

Heaven

Treasures of Our Everlasting Rest

Outline of Book

What will heaven feel like?  From the best and most ancient, we discover a small portion of what the very experience of heaven shall be.

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OES Specials:
 
Dr. Rob Morris & OES
 
Masonic Blue Slipper

Character Counts
Freemasonry Is a National Treasure and a Source of Our Founders' Constitutional Original Intent

Forewords by
M. Douglas Adkins & Nelson King

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Heart of the Living God

Love, Free Will, Foreknowledge, Heaven--
A Theology on the Treasure of Love

The 1,500+ years old free-will debate continues.  Where is your genuine relation with God if, 1,000 years ago, God's knowledge of what you would do tomorrow was settled?  Love is greater than that.

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Precious Heart-Broken Heart

Love & the Search for Finality in Divorce

A gentle journey through the stages of grief unique to divorce and toward a place of finality.

   Love will find a way.

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Queen of Prison Ministry

The Story of Gertha Rogers - First
Woman to Minister on Texas Death Row

Foreword by Wayne Scott
TDCJ Executive Director 1995-2001  

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Empathic Helping Skills Program

1997 Dissertation:  A Helping Skills Program at the Gib Lewis State Prison, Woodville, Texas - including a history of in-prison programming in America, developed by Maness proved basic listening skills and empathy could be taught to prisoners.

History of In-Prison Programming
in USA, especially in Texas
Michael G. Maness, 1997

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President's Advisory 1776 Commission
January 2021

   In the course of human events there have always been those who deny or reject human freedom, but Americans will never falter in defending the fundamental truths of human liberty proclaimed on July 4, 1776. We will—we must—always hold these truths. 

   The declared purpose of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission is to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.” This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is “accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.” And a rediscovery of our shared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future.... > click here for FREE Copy 

Parole Option - 100,000 Mothers' Option 

Resources, Bibliography Sets, and Super Lists

 Chaplaincy Docs ~ Chaplaincy Saved 2011 ~ Etymology of "Chaplain"

31 Lists of Character Traits of 31 Leaders/Organizations

Religious Freedom Documents  ~  Chaplaincy Links Page  

History of Prison Programming in America 

Dr. Robert Morris & OES  ~  Masonic Blue Slipper

Archive Intro  ~  Crisis-Grief Archive  ~  Divorce Archive ~ Super Lists

Harvard Classics Outline

Passion Week of Christ by friend Dr. Col. Will Duke - R.I.P. 2020
Passion Book - Chart of Passion Week 

This is a meticulously crafted work, condensed here  
Will of God by Henry Wright (1910) condensed

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Killing Professional Chaplaincy Series

After dozens of letters, 100s of Open Record requests, three huge books documenting with zero response from major stakeholders--what has TDCJ Exec. Dir. Bryan Collier really covered up?--time may tell, but the cover up is extensive and witnesses are retiring or passing onto their eternal reward.  Looks like Collier will retire soon, too, without the TBCJ or himself coming clean.  Sad 25-year story ... waiting for truth to win.

Volume 1.  2001 – Chaplain Professional Equity and Market Study w Ethical Violations Timeline, www.PreciousHeart.net/chaplaincy/01-Chaplain_Pt_2_Timeline_2001.pdf, with four TDCJ chaplains, I personally delivered this 100-page treatise to TDCJ Exec. Dir. Gary Johnson that documented many unethical business practices.  It had much of the 2000 Chaplain Professional Equity proposal we used in the 2001 Texas Legislature to gain our first pay raise in 40-plus years, yet with a critical timeline of unethical tweaking of the Chaplaincy Director's job to suit favored applicants, pages 54-65.

Volume 2.  2012 - Faith-Based Housing Letter, www.PreciousHeart.net/Maness-Faith-Based-Housing.pdf, heartfelt 50-page letter to Brad Livingston asking him to meet with a Barry Lynn of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. It exposes several ethical violations and is the first exposure of the unconstitutional nature of the Seminary Scam. Soon after this, I was persecuted for whistleblowing and forced to retire.

Volume 3.  2013 - TDCJ Book of Secrets on the Longest Cover Up in TDCJ History: Case of the Enchanting Chaplain, 700 pp., 139 MBs, first 100 pages documented how I was set up with falsified documents, then the rest details the vast policy violations at the Polunsky Unit and Michael Upshaw’s cleaning of contraband, clearing of violators, and more. Included were two CDs and a DVD with videos and dozen recorded interviews!  Hard copies to Livingston, OIG, and Texas AG.
See Bryan Collier's three-sentence reply here: Collier-01-21-14-Nothing.

Volume 4.  2015 – How We Saved Texas Prison Chaplaincy 2011—Immeasurable Value of Religion, Volunteers, and Their Chaplains, Forewords by Jerry A. Madden, senior fellow for Right on Crime and 2011 chairman of the Texas House Corrections Committee, and Carol S. Vance, former chairman of Texas Board of Criminal Justice and Harris County District Attorney (1966-79) (AuthorHouse, 2015; 394 pp.), www.preciousheart.net/Saved. We networked across Texas to stop the deletion of TDCJ Chaplaincy which was dead on arrival in the 2011 legislature. In a fight, we saved the entire budget. The appendices show Chaplaincy recovers its operating costs several times over and is the most productive program in RPD: “Chaplains facilitate the greatest source for change and solace in human history—Religion.”

Volume 5.  2017 - TDCJ Book of Secrets Part 2, Goodman Unit Hiring Scam, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/GoodmanUnit2017.pdf, 180-pg, most detailed audit of a hiring package in TDCJ history showing multiple violations. A white warden hired a white career laundry man over black U.S. Army combat veteran career chaplain!

Volume 6.  2019 - TDCJ Deep State Report:  Case of the Collared Fox, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/TDCJ-OIG-2019.pdf, 177-page
   - Cover Letters of 1st, 2nd, & 3rd sends to Bryan Collier & 50+ TX Leaders, Jurists, and District Attorneys, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Big-50-Send.pdf 

Volume 7.  Revised 2023 - When Texas Prison Scams Religion--TBCJ's 25-year Legacy of Cover Ups, 824 pages, documented from 100's of open record requests and 1,000-plus sources.

~ 105 Letters to Major Stakeholders in Prison Efficacy ~

~  "16 Killings" Letter to 100+ Stakeholders - 16 Killings in TDCJ 9-20-2023  ~
and another killing right after systemwide lockdown ~ unbelievable

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~ Special Poems ~
 Law Officer's Daunting Day  
June 2020 

Healthcare Heroes on the Mournful Sea
July 2020 

Other Poems ~ Some of my most
precious persons & moments

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