The Activist Hymnist

James Montgomery

(1771-1854)

Often in jail, this activist wrote "Angels from the Realms of Glory."

In 1818, the inhabitants of the Georgian Isles ...

The Light Gives Meaning

Charles Colson and several other Christian leaders once met with President Borja of Ecuador to discuss Prison Fellowship International's ministry ...

Witnessing in a Soviet Prison

The effect of the Christian life lived out in difficult situations is often quite dramatic and forceful in its impact on the non-Christian. An article ...

Seeing the Stars

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

A Precious Blade of Grass

Out of the history of Napoleonic France, Leonard Griffith has given us a moving story of a political prisoner by the name of Charnet. Charnet was thrown ...

Picture of Advent

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes, does various unessential things, and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be ...

The Gift of a Spider

Nien Cheng, an older Chinese Christian woman, has written a book entitled Life and Death in Shanghai. The author spent six years in a Red Guard prison ...

Papa's in the Pen

While I conducted my usual Tuesday evening prison ministry, my wife decided to attend a local home sales party. Our 15-year-old daughter, Faith, was at ...

Freedom Through Captivity

Eating lunch at a small cafe, I saw a sparrow hop through the open door and peck at the crumbs near my table. When the crumbs were gone, the sparrow hopped ...

Why Send Them to Prison?

Why should small-time embezzlers, bad-check writers, and petty burglars be in prison when they ought to be working to pay back those they have wronged, ...