Making A Difference
Thinking About Prison Ministry?
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Mending the Torn Fabric of Society
By Frank Boulet of Crossways Ministries
Over the next five years the number of people being released from prison into our communities will increase from 250,000 in 1999 to over one million in 2010. Their lives have been torn up by ...
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Preparing for Freedom
By Terry Read of Crossways Ministries
America has 1/20th of the world's population and nearly one-fourth of the world's prisoners. We have a growing problem.
Every day men and women in prison make decisions to receive Christ. They ...
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Current Commentary on Prison Ministry
What are the Issues?
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Europe Exporting Drugs and Sex
By Terry Read of Crossways Ministries
In my opinion, drugs and sex have long been the used by the Secularist to break down society. Sex stirs the emotion of man and drugs cloud the mind. The Bible says that the mind is the battlefield ...
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Why Secularists Fear the Faith Factor
By Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship
The current brouhaha over faith-based programs perfectly illustrates the old adage about the person who wanted to have his cake and eat it, too. Liberals, it seems, like our work--so long as we leave ...
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A Room for a Former Offender?
By Terry Read of Crossways Ministries
For the safety of the community and to greatly reduce repeat offenses we ought to give former offenders some positive direction getting started in the right way as they return to our communities from ...
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Prisoner Reentry a Big Problem
By Charles Brennan of Crossways Ministries
Our state spends an embarrassing and obscene amount of money filling our prison system. That number is growing rapidly.
Further, nearly 90 percent of all inmates are men. Eighty six percent of all ...
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