by Steve Peterson, PCA Board Member Many years ago when I was in college, I decided to hitchhike from where I was going to school to another city where I had friends.  It was winter.  I found myself …

by Rev. Scott JamiesonChurch Of Another ChanceNashville, Tennessee One pod at a time the men come into the chapel. The chapel is an easy place to find. It’s the only room in the jail where men can ga…

By Mary Mortenson, Executive Director, Prison Congregations of America I’ve been thinking a lot lately about tradition.  Do you and your families engage in such things?  Maybe it’s a baptismal gown, …

By Eric Sponheim, former board member In American life, Groundhog Day ranks with Super Bowl Sunday as a midwinter right of passage.  This year, the two occasions are in close alignment. Groundhog Day…

by Wayne Gallipo, PCA Board Member At a recent worship service at St. Dysmas Lutheran Church inside the walls of the South Dakota State Penitentiary I asked the men to finish this sentence, “It is ha…

by Chris Flohr, PCA Board Member The December/January 2018 issue of Reader’s Digest has an article written by Daniel A. Gross entitled The Prisoner and the Encyclopedia Editor.   It’s a fine story of…

by Sarah Estes, PCA Board Member Every year at the end of December I purchase a new notebook. When I was younger I did this with the intention to keep a journal filled with interesting things I saw o…

By Mary Mortenson, Executive Director, Prison Congregations of America I am old enough to remember when television shows were advertised as being “in living color!”  Just a few weeks ago I was remind…

by Rev. John Harrison - PCA Board Member Christmas is a hard time of year for people who don’t get to be with the ones they love. Yet what makes the Christmas promise so profound is that God does not…

by Lee A. Schott, Pastor at Women at the Well UMC, at Mitchellville, Iowa   When our inside council meets, a couple of times a month, we open with a question that allows us to hear the voice of ev…