Prison Restrictions a Threat to Friendships Through the Mail
Steven was paired with his Crossroads mentor, Cindy, in 2017. After nine months of studying the Bible together through the mail, their correspondence was interrupted. The interruption came as Crossroads began to navigate the complications of new mail restrictions in...
Is Your Church a Safe Space for the Marginalized?
Although Zach attended many different churches growing up, he never considered himself a believer. Having experienced abuse as a child, Zach said that he “couldn’t reconcile what [he] had experienced with what [he] heard about God as a child in church.” He wrote, “My...
Crossroads student, now released from prison, hasn’t forgotten his friends inside
“Looking back, the pieces of the puzzle begin to fit together,” Dan explained over the phone. Dan is a Crossroads student who was released from prison two years ago and recently began his seventh course, Biblical Interpretation. He was happy to share with us about his...
He was ready to give up on life, then God began to change it
Peter grew up believing God expected perfection. “My knowledge of God was that He was holy, righteous, jealous, perfect and angry and that He would punish sin because He is a just God. Therefore, I needed to act accordingly,” Peter remembered. “Although I knew He was...