Relevant Magazine
- What to Do When Work Becomes an Idol
- What Shortening Attention Spans Mean for the Church: tl;dr culture and growing spirituality
- Facebook Can’t Replace Church: Regardless of Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for it
- How ‘Simplifying Your Life’ Can be a Problem: The downside of downsizing
Ekstasis Magazine
Prison Fellowship (all posts)
- ‘We Can Change Lives Right Now’: A Powerful Story of Reconciliation
- ‘He Broke That Curse’: How Kevin Curbed the Cycle of Incarceration in His Family
- Hope Delivered: Connecting Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones
- Christians in China Help with America’s PPE Shortage
- How Marcus Bullock and Flikshop Keep Prisoners and Families Connected Despite COVID-19
- Not an Ex-Con: Special Zoom Graduation Celebrates Prison Fellowship Academy Grads
- The Weight of Reentry: Luis Centeno’s Strenuous Journey to Success After Prison
- The Cleveland Cavaliers Go Behind Bars with Prison Fellowship
- Justice That Restores Is Restoration for All
- Parting the Legislative Sea for Women in Prison
- What Christians Think About Prison Conditions and Caring for Prisoners
- The Church of Acts OKC Brings the Church to Prisoners: How a Church of ‘Liars, Dreamers, and Misfits’ Is Welcoming and Healing Prisoners and Returning Citizens
- Why Religious Liberty Matters
- What’s It Like to Advocate for Justice Reform?
- A Community of Transformation: How Prisons Can Become Places Where People Change for the Better
- This Christmas, Give a Gift That Keeps Giving All Year Round
- Kids, You’re Not in This Alone: Photographer Captures Childhood with a Parent in Prison
- Why Prison Fellowship is Equipping Pastors to Restore Those Affected by Crime and Incarceration
- Building a Better Criminal Justice System in Alabama
- Back to Basics: Equipping Prisoners to Take Responsibility
- Most Prisoners are Barred from Higher Education. Here’s Why That’s a Problem
- Prison Fellowship and Celebrate Recovery Working to Curb Overdose
- Hillsong NYC and Prison Fellowship Partner to Introduce Prisoners to Jesus
- How Alpha Led a Wiccan Prisoner to Truth
- Prison Fellowship Celebrates Texas Occupational Licensing Law Reforms
- Repairing Relationships: How Angel Tree Comforted a Hurting Family
- Doing Time as a Family: Why Prison Fellowship Ministers to Angel Tree Families
- Hope Delivered: How Angel Tree Has Been a Light in Trisha’s Darkness
- 5 Tips for Colleges Welcoming Returning Citizens
- What One Dad Learned by Facing Tragedy
- When Mom Goes to Prison
- A Life-Changing Experience: When the Hope of Easter Comes to Three California Prisons
- Riding for Second Chances
- 6 Lessons for Employers Considering Hiring Former Prisoners: An Inside Look at One Company Building a Culture of Second Chances
- Second Chances at Work: How One Company Built a Work Culture of Second Chances
- Starting Over After Abuse: Through hard-fought second chances, Mia left violence and prison behind to begin a new life
- Pastor, Church Planter, and Advocate: Former Prisoner Speaks Out for Justice That Restores
- Seizing Second Chances: How Alex Denning is defying collateral consequences to seize his second chance
- The History of the Prison Fellowship Academy
- ‘It’s About the One’: Why Jeff and Audrey Fay Keep Going Behind Bars
- Inside Virginia’s First Prison Fellowship Academy Graduation
- Eye on the Prize: How Dawn Found Strength and a New Identity in Jesus
- Not Just a Christmas Tradition: How You Can Minister to Children with Incarcerated Parents
- From Enlisted to Incarcerated: Why Some Veterans End Up Behind Bars
- An Unforgettable Story of One Judge’s Compassion for an Embattled Veteran
- The Good Kind of Fear
- EDWINS and Brandon Chrostowski are Serving Up Second Chances
- Breaking Bad and Making Good
- How Books Are Helping Incarcerated Dads Start a New Chapter with Their Kids
- A Mom to Prisoners: 72-Year-Old Makes a Difference in Texas Prisons
- Four Ways Incarcerated Fathers Can Help with Their Children’s Education
- Angel Tree Helps Moms Build Bridges
- From Manslaughter to Mentor: How Brandy Found Purpose After Prison
- The Civil Rights Leader Who Sounded the Call for Prison Ministry
ERLC
- One way to fix America’s broken drug laws
- What the Bible says about second chances: Caring for those who have served prison time
Gospel-Centered Discipleship
- Are You Called to Write?
- Writing with Precision
- Declutter Your Writing
- How to Warm Readers’ Hearts
- Does Your Writing Have These Two Things?
- Finding Hope When Life is Falling Apart
- Silence: The Safest Way to God
- What the Wise Men Teach Us About How We Read the Bible
- Adorn Yourself with the Peace that Passes Understanding
- The Hazardous Work of Discipleship
- How to Put Out a Dumpster Fire
- Pastor, Here’s How to be Built to Last
- A Recipe for Gospel-Centered Prayer
- The Missing Component in Most Discipleship Strategies
- The Essence of a Gospel-Soaked, Faithful Teacher
- Are You Ashamed of the Gospel?
- Say No to Yourself So You Can Say Yes to Jesus
- Start Planning Your Own Funeral
- Do You Take the Great Commission Personally?
- Taste and See that the Bible is True
- A Long Obedience in an Instagram Age
- Why You Don’t Read Your Bible (and How to Start)
- 4 Questions and Answers to Understand God’s Calling
- Use Your Affluence for Influence
- Why You’re Not Being Transformed
- A Better Way to Find Leaders in the Church
International Mission Board (IMB)
Unlocking the Bible
Op-Eds
As part of my work with Prison Fellowship, I help write op-eds for news outlets around the country.
- Now’s the time to unlock prisoners’ access to education (AL.com)
- What I learned serving 15 years in prison as a father (Christian Post)
- Opinion: Support incarcerated fathers by promoting in-prison programs, easing parole restrictions (Houston Chronicle)
- Former House speaker: Commute sentences for non-violent offenders at pandemic risk (Detroit Free Press)
- An opportunity to celebrate second chances (The Detroit News)
- Drug laws are broken, but lawmakers have the power to fix them (Fox News)
- It’s time to fix Alabama’s prison problems
- Leveraging my checkered past to improve Michigan’s future
- National analyst: Since Louisiana’s justice reforms, violent crime is down
- Why the number of young people in prison has dropped dramatically
- Incarcerated Fathers: Out of Sight, Out of Mind—But Not Out of Hope
- North Dakota should stay the course on prison reform
- Minnesota’s legal system has a Catch-22: Probation that just won’t end
- Out of prison, but still locked out. Texas needs second chances
- Former GOP Speaker: Raise age for criminal prosecution
- Local View: Prison reform bill needs passage
- Oklahoma needs restorative system for women in prison
- Let’s Unlock Second Chances in Alabama
- How South Carolina can give convicts a second chance
- Family Forum’s Gene Mills working for justice reform
Blog Posts and Articles
Note: I’m not listed as the author of these articles.
- Recognition Accelerates Prison Fellowship’s Social Impact
- Despite the distance: Helping grandparents and grandchildren stay connected
- Divorce proof: Helping young couples win at marriage
- Inspiring and involving grandparents who lack purpose
- How to help millennials choose a career
The Upstream Collective
- Do You Take the Great Commission Personally? — The Upstream Collective Blog (this was re-published at Sojourn International)
