The store of cain and abel takes up just sixteen lines of the bible. It is arguable history’s most famous murder. But the store is silent about one key detail : The weapon cain used to kill his brother. was it a rock ? or a sharpened stone […]
One of the most difficult things I have ever had to deal with is : what does love mean ? Is it just a fleeting emotion ? Is it a predetermined destination ? Or could it simply be a choice we arbitrarily make along the way, without rhyme […]
When I was a little boy my father told me a story about stealing watermelon from a local farm when he was a teenager. He said ,” We used to run into a neighbors watermelon patch and each one of would snatch as big a melon as we […]
Dr. Ben Carson, a Christian, has caught heat for saying he wouldn’t vote for a Muslim president, because Islam isn’t in line with the Constitution. A fair enough point, but neither is Christianity. The god of the Bible is not a fan of the first amendment, for example, […]
I’m always talking about the cliche that prisoners should “find God” to improve their lives. The first time I went to IMU (the Hole) back in the late nineties, there was a Bible waiting for me. Every cell came equipped with one. Why? Because of the cliche, the […]
When i made the decision to seek the face of God i knew i had to get right. The shows i watched on t.v., the materials i read, how i talked, who i associated with, and my manner of speech (internally and externally). I didn’t go in to […]
There’s always the cliched expectation that religion can make a con’s life better. The first time I ever went to the Hole, shortly after I arrived in prison in 1997, it was exactly as I expected: a bare cell, metal toilet, mattress, and blanket, and you were there […]
Everybody claims to “find God” in prison. For me, it was the opposite. I was a religious child and came to prison at 18 still believing in Jesus Christ and the central tenets of the Bible. A dedication critical thought, reason, and education changed my mind and my […]
Its me again and i am going to be getting at you on a different level this time and i am going to talk to you all about one of my most treasured scriptures from the ” HOLY BIBLE ” ; Psalms 51 : 14 – 17 It […]
Oneproblem with getting one’s moral framework from a religion is that religions, not using the scientific method or being overly concerned with facts, take FOREVER to change. The Catholic Church was still issuing the blood libel against Jews (the idea that Jews used the blood of Christian babies […]
To try to desribe what was going on in my head as a kid would be hard , because i am not that kid anymore. However , i have thought about that for years . What would make me murder ? What would make me take someones life […]
I was asked to sign-up to attend a Church service called “Inherit the Kingdom” while I was at Monroe’s Washington State Reformatory. Initially I had no intention of going. In fact, I lied to my boy telling him that I signed up and then I acted shocked when […]
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