Easter, Extinction, and Nonviolent Direct Action
If Christmas is the season to be jolly, maybe—if the Gospels are anything to go by—Easter is the season for Christians to go to jail.
Don’t Just Wash Your Hands: Scripture, COVID-19, and Mass Incarceration
A call for immediate release of vulnerable, incarcerated individuals amid COVID-19 crisis.
The Holy Tradition of Going to Jail for Jesus
There are a lot of ways to change the world. Going to jail isn’t the only way to do it. But it is one way.
From Behind the Walls, pt. 3: Freedom
AUG 5, 2014 | BY: MICHAEL MCRAY -- The chapel in Building 11 was full. Incarcerated and free-world brothers and sisters interwove on...
From Behind the Walls, pt. 2: A Human Being (Almost) Died That Night
JULY 29, 2014 | BY: MICHAEL MCRAY -- That particular Friday in December began as my Fridays usually did: quiet morning of...
From Behind the Walls, Pt. 1: Jesus Under Lockdown
JULY 21, 2014 | BY: MICHAEL MCRAY -- Encountering Christ in prison was one of the primary purposes for my first visit to Riverbend Maximum...
My Trip to Death Row
APRIL 30, 2014 | BY: BRIAN BALLARD -- I walked through the gates and had no idea what to expect. As I waited for one gate...
What Question Would You Ask God?
FEB 26, 2014 | BY: MORF MORFORD -- What question would you ask God? I was naive enough to raise that question in my class at the county jail...
What I Saw in a Prison Inmate’s Eyes
AUGUST 20, 2013 | BY: ED CYZEWSKI -- I used to write this type of guy off. I mean, he just can’t get his act together. At least we’ve got a...
When and How I Changed My Mind About Civil Disobedience
BY: TONY CAMPOLO -- It was in the early ‘60s, and the civil rights movement, along with the Vietnam War were headline news items...