The Symptoms of A Nation Approaching Spiritual Death
When we recognize that something which impacts anyone of us can quickly impact all of us, we know everyone must learn the signs of what the disease looks like before it is too late.
A Here-and-Not-Yet Gospel of Peace
Too often, we have numbed the aches and groans of the world in a false peace that seeks to resolve and explain away our neighbor’s pain (or worse yet, to blame them for it).
When Legal Is Unjust, Prophetic Resistance Is Required
Presidential pardons of soldiers and US Government contractors guilty of war crimes, billions of dollars in benefits for the rich and powerful tucked away in the 5,000 + page Congressional Relief Bill, and Federal death row executions grieve me deeply, demonstrating the ongoing relevancy of the words of OT prophets: 'Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away . . . '
The Symptoms of A Nation Approaching Spiritual Death
When we recognize that something which impacts anyone of us can quickly impact all of us, we know everyone must learn the signs of what the disease looks like before it is too late.
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.
Why Jesus Followers Should Be Prison Abolitionists
If Jesus were alive today, I think he would be a prison abolitionist.
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...
Remember Those Who Are in Prison
JULY 24, 2014 | BY: PAT ANDERSON -- America’s addiction to locking people in prison for interminable periods of time began in the 1970s...
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...