Lectionary: Easter 2A
by AMN 1 Peter 1:3-9 What is your message? This should be the time of year that we should reflect and reevaluate our relationship with God through Jesus Christ. We have just finished celebrating the event that our faith hinges…
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New Testament
Prison Lectionary launched in November 2015 and we are slowly building an archive of biblical interpretation in prison. We do not yet offer materials on every book of the New Testament but as more work is published it will become…
First Sunday in Lent
by Matthew B. Harper 1 Peter 3:18-19: For Christ also suffered for the sins for all… in order to bring you to God. … In which he also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison. Christ first…
Easter
Prison, with a sentence of any length, is a death. It is one of those experiences that changes you forever. Even if your sentence is short, whatever comes next will be touched by your time in prison. This death is more profound when you have a longer sentence, as I do. Coming to prison meant that my old life, and the plans and dreams I had, all died. Acknowledging that was a long and painful grieving process. It felt like the end of my world, and in a way it was.
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Transfiguration – Last Epiphany A
We often feel marginalized by free society, those of us in prison. Many of us don’t believe that God would want to call us for anything. We often feel alienated from God, and disqualified from any service in The Kingdom, because of where we are.…
Lectionary: Baptism of Christ A
I live in a very sheltered world and at times I feel insignificant. I also live in a world of loneliness and deep regret. Could God actually care or even use me still?…
Letter of EB to the Churches
“What would the apostle Paul do if he heard about the mistreatment of brothers and sisters who return to our congregations and communities after being released from prison? I think we know exactly what Paul would do. Paul would write a letter!”…
Lectionary: Pentecost C
by Matthew B. Harper PENTECOST, May 15, Acts 2 Pentecost is marked in the church with celebration and fire. Our clergy dress in red and our hangings use images of fire and wind. Pentecost is drama. But to the observers…
Wednesday, First Week in Lent
by Matthew B. Harper Psalm 119:67 – Before I was humbled I went astray, but now I keep your word There is something powerful in being humbled before God and man. Most of us come to the faith full of…
Thursday, First Week in Advent
by Matthew B. Harper Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him… and count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation (2 Peter 3:14-15) It is inevitable that we, human that we are, will…
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