by Hugh Brown “The Announcement” Luke 2:(1-7),8-20 “He’s here!”, announced the angel of the Lord. This great proclamation made to a unique and unsuspecting audience. Shepherds. The true embodiment of the Savior of the world. David, a shepherd before he…
Perhaps the most challenging Christmas in prison was the first one. …
“That still small voice that came to Elijah on that mountain came to me during a life-altering moment in my life. I was in solitary confinement…” …
“Speak Truth with Power” by CM 1 Kings 18:20-21 [22-29] 30-39 How difficult it can be to go against the grain, to stand when the currents are moving, and to resist when the crowd demands that one conform. And yet, how…
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 Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) but as more work is…
I observed a dynamic on two fronts at play. For men, comfort in the disparity of gender roles in the Black community, and among Black women, a normalization so thoroughly ingrained in the cultural zeitgeist that they don’t even realize that the disparity exists. A normalization of an arbitrary inequality among a significant portion of the Black populace.…
As I lined up with other prisoners in a brick passageway, six Attica guards huddled in a group, wearing blue latex gloves and gripping wooden clubs. They stared at us as we waIked in pairs through the sepulchral corridor without speaking, like Franciscan monks on their way to vespers. …
1 Kings 21:1-21a “Remember the Power” by CM It can be so easy to forget the simple fact that God is in charge. And by “in charge” I don’t simply mean the director of the course of events as they naturally…
by CM 1 Kings 17:8-16 [17-24] “Respond to Power” Our prophet Elijah receives word to wait out a time of drought at the home of a widow and her son in Sidon. The nation suffered, while the widow prospered. We know there’s…
by AMN Acts 9:1-20 “For His Name’s Sake” How dramatic was the conversion of Paul? Well, it’s kind of like one of those instances that we should have been there. If you read it carefully along with prayer, you see…
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