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Samaritan woman at the well, or Photine is a well known figure from the Gospel of John; Sapphira – Acts [176] Sarah #1 – wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac. Her name was originally "Sarai". According to Genesis 17:15 God changed her name to Sarah as part of a covenant with Yahweh after Hagar bore Abraham a son Ishmael.
Also, the website says, "We are devoted to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the men and women in the prisons and jails across America." An educational course administered by Little Lambs reaches inmates in 783 jails and prisons in the United States, Canada and Barbados. As of 2010 2,309 male and female inmates were taking the Little ...
Women's Prison Book Project was founded in 1994 in Minneapolis, [7] and incorporated as a nonprofit in Minnesota in 2000. [8] The organization was initially located in the basement of a volunteer. Since then, it has been located at several places in Minneapolis, including Arise Bookstore, [9] Boneshaker Books, [10] [11] SOCO Commons, and Center ...
Blakinger opened up the pages of her prison Bible to reveal numbers and addresses for lawyers. She explained that if you couldn't remember all the numbers and names you needed, the only way to ...
In the 19th century Quaker ideas, [4] [5] were co-opted by Pennsylvania prisons which had inmates meditate upon their crimes as a key component of rehabilitation. [6] [7] In the 1970s organizations such as the Prison-Ashram Project [8] and SYDA Foundation began programs to offer meditation or yoga instruction to inmates.
A formerly incarcerated person revealed why she always kept a Bible in prison. Woman shares ‘real reason’ she always kept a Bible in prison: ‘That is so cruel’ Skip to main content
A California woman was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison after she was arrested on a weapons charge and found with heroin-filled Bibles addressed to inmates in state prisons.. Lucresia ...
Kairos Inside is a program that works inside prisons to develop a sense of Christian fellowship. It is active in both men's and women's prisons, and is conducted by volunteers of the same gender. The 3.5-day retreat includes talks, discussions, and chapel meditations. The Kairos Inside program strives to create Christian communities inside prisons.