Police Work Brought Him to His Darkest Hour

Undercover narcotics officer Norm Wielsch was parked on a dark frontage road in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was about 9 p.m., and he was writing a ...

Formerly Incarcerated Zoom Back to Prison for Degrees

When people like Maria Garza are released from the Logan Correctional Center in central Illinois, the staffers there don’t usually want to see them ...

Finding Eternal Life on Death Row

Pamela Perillo was on death row waiting for execution by lethal injection when she found Christ.

Pam grew up in the 1960s in Los Angeles. Two adults and ...

Correctional Inmates Earn Degrees in Christian Ministry

In June, a group of students were honored in an off-campus commencement ceremony, being conferred with degrees from a neighboring educational institution. ...

An Iranian Refugee’s Terrible Journey to God

Annahita Parsan shares how she survived snowy mountains, a filthy prison, and an abusive husband as God brought her to faith in Christ.

I was born in beautiful, ...

Jesus Gave Me What My Fists Couldn’t

In his testimony in CT magazine, Allen Langham describes hitting rock bottom in prison and finding Jesus reaching out to him:

As a child, there was violence ...

Inmate Refuses to Leave Prison After Acquittal

An inmate caused a mild drama in the Nigerian High Court after a judge acquitted him of all charges against him, but he refused and demanded to go back ...

When Jesus Calls a Gang Leader by Name

Casey Diaz was a gang member as a teenager in South-Central Los Angeles. As a leader in the Rockwood Street Locos, he led his gang in home invasions, ...

God’s Mercy to a Klansman

Thomas Tarrants shares his testimony of being a former hate-filled Klansman who was saved by God’s grace:

I came of age in the early 1960s in Mobile, ...

Mark Wahlberg on the Change God Made in His Life

Mark Wahlberg got into trouble in his youth. He often skipped school and had run-ins with police. At the age of 16, he robbed a convenience store, resulting ...