June 30, 2025
A new review from Kirkus Reviews calls Finding Joy on Death Row by Dewey Williams “a stirring meditation on the spiritual promise of joy.”
Read the full review here.
Based on the sermon series that garnered top honors from Yale Divinity School, Finding Joy on Death Row is the powerful story of a broken preacher’s transformative experience learning about joy from Death Row prisoners, combined with dramatic handwritten responses from more than twenty men currently sentenced to die. In Finding Joy on Death Row: Unexpected Lessons from Lives We Discarded, Williams journeys into the hearts and minds of those sentenced to death, illuminating for readers the ways in which the human spirit can suffer—and soar.
Learn more and order a copy of Finding Joy on Death Row here.








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