“I have sinned so deeply, and been overwhelmed with despair and grief. I am in prison, and often feel lonely, abandoned, and discarded. This is a deep pit, from which God has indeed lifted me. I have been transformed from the inside out, and put in places to minister and do kingdom work. As a musician it is no metaphor to say God has indeed put a new song in my mouth.”…
by Matthew Harper January 17th, 2016 Isaiah 62:1 –5 Psalm 36:5–10 1 Corinthians 12:1 –11 John 2:1 –11 Today is all about weddings. From the wedding poem in Isaiah to Mary’s plea during the wedding at Cana, Marriage is on…
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 by Keith Wiglusz “Being reconciled to God” This is the the gospel message: fixing what keeps us apart from God, be it a follower of Christ Jesus or not.
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…
by Matthew B. Harper 2 Corinthians 4:8-9– We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; If there is a theme song for our community…
by Matthew B. Harper 2 Corinthians 3:12 – Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness. Jesus didn’t pull any punches. He spoke with great boldness of a gospel message that defied all conventional social laws.…
by Matthew B. Harper 2 Corinthians 3:3 – …you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.…
by LA 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 In 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, Paul is writing to early Christians of a first-century Greek church but he might as well be writing to contemporary believers on my own prison gallery today. It is of the…
Sometimes I think that perhaps life is simply safer and easier in prison than out. Life in here can be difficult, painful, and violent, but there is a clarity and honesty to it. The outside world, one I’ve only seen on TV and in glossy magazines for 20 years now, seems to be consumed with acrimony and judgment. Rather than bringing us closer together, new technology is just documenting how we are splitting ourselves into tribes, and casting our anger at others. We are a world in need of a savior.
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by Taj Alexander Mahon-Haft in dialogue with 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 She rises before dawn on a Sunday just to catch an early Southbound train. She makes 800 miles round trip just a single day for a mere three hours together…
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