Dostoevsky Finds Christ after Escaping Death

Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most famous and accomplished Russian writers of the 19th century.

Early in his life, Dostoevsky underwent a virtual resurrection. ...

"Shawshank Redemption": Imprisoned by Sin

Warning: The movie clip of this illustration contains profanity. PreachingToday.com recommends that you not show the video but rather simply tell the ...

"The Hurricane": Love Sets Us Free

Denzel Washington stars in The Hurricane, the true story of professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's life. At the height of his boxing ...

What Time I Have Left

Chuck Colson tells the following story of visiting Mississippi's Parchman Prison:

Most of the death row inmates were in their bunks wrapped in blankets, ...

Charles Colson on Conscience

More than ever before in American history—indeed in Western history—we are witnessing the near-death of conscience…. I regularly confront ...

The Activist Hymnist

James Montgomery

(1771-1854)

Often in jail, this activist wrote "Angels from the Realms of Glory."

In 1818, the inhabitants of the Georgian Isles ...

The Light Gives Meaning

Charles Colson and several other Christian leaders once met with President Borja of Ecuador to discuss Prison Fellowship International's ministry ...

Witnessing in a Soviet Prison

The effect of the Christian life lived out in difficult situations is often quite dramatic and forceful in its impact on the non-Christian. An article ...

Seeing the Stars

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

A Precious Blade of Grass

Out of the history of Napoleonic France, Leonard Griffith has given us a moving story of a political prisoner by the name of Charnet. Charnet was thrown ...