It's been a banner year for doubters in this season of skepticism. Religious conflict between India and Pakistan brought them close to a nuclear showdown. Islamic terrorists stepped up their assaults on Western targets from Pakistan to Bali. The Catholic Church has dismissed hundreds of priests for sexually abusing children. Even closer to home, one of the snipers who allegedly terrorized the Washington, D.C. area is a convert to Islam.
By Grayson Pope
www.prisonfellowship.org
Darryl Brooks lived for the streets. He was using marijuana at 10 and selling drugs by middle school. He continued to sell as an adult, until he caught law enforcement’s attention and received a 50-year sentence.
Five years into his sentence, Brooks trusted Jesus for his salvation. He says, “God wrecked my life, and I ain’t been the same since.” In 2000, he was transferred to the Carol S. Vance Unit in Richmond, Texas, where his wrecked life was rebuilt into something much stronger.
After arriving at the Carol S. Vance Unit, Brooks enrolled in the Prison Fellowship Academy®, which offers incarcerated men and women a pathway to holistic life transformation. Brooks didn’t know it at the time, but he was taking part in a relatively new experiment in corrections spearheaded by Prison Fellowship founder Charles “Chuck” Colson.
food as we possibly can, i figured if i bought 200 cans of baby food, maybe my future son would get a couple, but i know there s a lot of other kids getting good healthy food out there and like i said, military s been great and sometimes you know, we go and tdy s or deployments and separated from our family and i m blessed to have a strong wife that s able to take care of the kids while i m gone and fantastic job and home schools them and does all kinds of thing. molly: thank you so much, major mark mathis, we appreciate your service and what a great your and congratulations on your nomination and we ll be chatting with other nominees as well. thank you for joining us. you re develop welcome, molly, thank you for having me. molly: coming up a beauty queen may find herself in handcuffs instead of a crown. why one miss usa hopeful is in trouble with the law. clayton: forget scared straight. if you want to rehabilitate criminals and reduce crime. some people say religion, a man wh
they ve done anything wrong, but there comes point in their life. they ve had a conversion experience and if they mature in their faith they begin to rewrite their script and acknowledge i ve done a lot of bad things and i m reconciled with that, i can move on and start a new path and it s basic, but powerful for someone to get a clean new start, but we ve also find that since the beginning, it s not just about a conversion experience, it s about what happens after that, and that s where i think that these, the roles of mentors can be so powerful. well, this research was not the beginning for you, it s the end of a job, why did you get fired for this research and for publishing it. well, early in my career, a couple of decades ago, i ran into all kinds of hostility. i was doing a good job teaching at a state university and i think i made people uncomfortable not only because i did research on religion, but because i was myself an outspoken christian and you know, in academia, you k
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