This past fall, John was one of nearly 400,000 people who have caught the coronavirus in prison, and he found his faith tested. At age seventy, catching COVID-19 in prison was frightening, but John shared with us how he felt God’s presence with Him, comforting and...
Kevin’s life has radically changed since discovering the love and acceptance of Jesus in prison. But even as he celebrates his new life in Christ, he faces a lot of uncertainties and worries about his life after incarceration. The journey of discovering Jesus was a...
Charles’ mom was thirteen and his dad was sixteen when he was born. Because Charles was born with bronchial asthma, his parents decided they “had no space in their lives for a baby, especially a very sick baby boy,” he said. So Charles was raised by his grandma,...
“I never felt like I quite fit in anywhere,” David wrote to us. From a young age, David surrounded himself with a diverse friend group in a working-class California neighborhood. But, while most of his peers lived in two-income households, David’s mom “worked and paid...
(Crossroads student artist: John C., Texas) This Friday, as we near the end of Holy week and ponder the familiar story of Jesus’ road to His crucifixion and resurrection, I find myself pausing to reflect again on one of the many people Jesus crossed paths with on the...
On any given day in America, over 555,000 people sit in pretrial detention. They are housed in local jails because they can’t afford to pay the bail that has been set for their release. The median bail for felonies is $10,000, which is the equivalent of eight months...
