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Many prisoners bear (and believe in) ugly identity labels that others have put on them, often beginning in childhood.
Jesus came to “bear our sins in his own body” (see 1 Peter 2:24).
This clever video shows how Jesus can not only erase but replace our labels once we’ve been transformed by him.
Isn’t looking at porn no worse than having a few drinks in a bar, smoking a legal joint, visiting a strip club, betting on horses or playing a slot machine? Why can’t we just accept it along with such other “little vices?” A new survey on pornography in America suggests why we shouldn’t accept it:
The Director of Chaplains for the TDCJ personally recommends Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path to his 110 unit chaplains.
By getting real about their serious failings, we can better understand how God’s grace can work in our own lives – and those of prisoners.
If every inmate with “father issues” was to be healed and released, most correctional facilities would have to be either consolidated or closed.
New York’s Seventies-era “Rockefeller Drug Laws” were among the most punitive anti-crime, anti-drug legislation ever passed.
Today in many parts of the USA, civil rights advocates condemn overly-aggressive practices used by police to enforce similar laws, saying they too often target poor and inner-city blacks for punishment.
In his book, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, political scientist Michael Javen Fortner uncovers the inconvenient truth that the impetus behind the adoption of those harsh Rockefeller laws came mostly from black residents, themselves, in Harlem and other black and minority inner-city neighborhoods where rehabilitation-oriented policies of the day were often seen as being too soft on drug pushers and other neighborhood criminals.
Fortner…is hoping to complicate the story that the Rockefeller laws, and others like them, were foisted on black people by white people.
If moral imperatives aren’t enough to restrain you, then Microsoft’s stealthy detection software might curb your enthusiasm (I sure hope so).
Once it detects such photos, it can immediately remove them and report them to law enforcement, then remove the user’s account.
One of my Recommended Readings in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path is Redeemed Unredeemable, which tells how seven of America’s most notorious murderers, including serial killers, came to Christ in prison.
Really?
How could certified psychopaths like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer or thoroughly brainwashed members of the Manson Family ever sincerely express the true repentance necessary to receive a divine pardon?
The book’s co-author addresses that question on SkyWatch TV.
Christianity Today tackles that question in its latest edition.
After being wrongly convicted of murdering his girlfriend’s parents more than 30 years ago, he became a Christian. He has written several brilliant books about prison life, biblical justice and the criminal justice system – some of which I recommend in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path.
Coming Soon: The Soering Movie, The Promise