PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Stephen Webb

The following post originally appeared as a BreakPoint radio commentary.

If I asked you what prison and salvation have in common, chances are you would draw a blank. I know I would.

But the answer, according to philosopher and theologian Stephen H.

“Several years of prison ministry have convinced me that there are substantial parallels between what we think about incarceration and how we understand salvation.”  So says religion professor Stephen Webb.  In a recent article for First Things, Webb asserts that in order for spiritual renewal to take place in the United States, Christians must first turn their focus to the prison system.