If you’re new to prison ministry or have a loved one doing time, where do you turn? The average bookstore lacks a shelf devoted to “prison issues.” That’s why BreakPoint and The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview have added a new section to their online bookstore, chockfull of resources devoted to the concerns of prison ministers and prisoners’ families. Visit BreakPoint/Colson Center Online Store to check out the recommended reading, and forward this story to friends and family who might want to get under the covers of some excellent books.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll find:
Born Again. The autobiography of Prison Fellowship Founder Charles Colson, Born Again is not only a remarkable story of one man’s redemption in Christ, but a fascinating look inside the events of one of our generation’s most riveting sagas—the tumultuous Watergate investigations. Learn how Colson found new life not while in positions of success and power, but while in disgrace and behind bars. | |
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Lessons from San Quentin. If Bill Dallas didn’t have it all, he had most of it. A diploma from a prestigious university, a lucrative career as a top California real estate entrepreneur, and more than enough money to fund a life filled with sports cars, penthouses, and beautiful women. And then it all fell apart. Convicted of grand theft embezzlement, the former golden boy found himself in one of the nation’s most infamous institutions-San Quentin, home of “the worst of the worst.” Through a vivid and transparent recounting of stories from his prison experience, Bill shares 12 life principles he had to learn the hard way, and how they can help you triumph over even the most difficult circumstances. | |
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Cain’s Redemption. Formerly known as America’s bloodiest prison, the 18,000 acres that comprise Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary are now home to 5,000 inmates, a full range of seasonal crops, a nine-hole golf course, yearly rodeos, a seminary, a museum, and much more. All of this came into being at the behest of Warden Burl Cain, who is now the longest-standing warden in the history of Angola prison. Under his leadership, the inmate population of 5,000 has gone from regular knife fights to Bible studies. Cain is a strong believer in the ability of the Gospel to turn the most incorrigible of sinners into productive, moral citizens. | |
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Learning to Sing in a Strange Land. When a Loved One Goes to Prison. Over two million people are serving prison time in America, and millions more are carrying the shame and grief of a loved one’s incarceration. In this book, co-authors Wesley Stevens and Walter Brueggeman explore how prisoners and their loved ones can make it through the other side and find joy to sustain them in the process. A Texas inmate wrote to one of the authors to say, “You’ve nailed tight the hard facts about prison life from both sides of the wire, with a rare mixture of empathy, objective observation, and deeply personal passages that brought tears to my eyes.” |