Rediscovering Redemption

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could find the right employee, hire them, and they performed perfectly with no personal problems or careless mistakes? Wouldn’t it be nice if employees would come to work, commit themselves to their jobs faithfully and completely, and the manager would only need to provide

According to the National Employment Law Project (Rodriguez & Emsellem, 2011), it is estimated that 65 million people, which is 1 in 4 adults in the United States, has a criminal record. The NELP research report also stated that there are many people for which a criminal record shows up

According to the Los Angeles Times actor Robert Downey Jr., who plays the lead character in the Marvel Comics movie adaptation of Iron Man, was given a Christmas Eve pardon by California Governor Jerry Brown. This pardon effectively wiped clean Downey’s past criminal record. After a history of problems with law enforcement

The linked article describes him as America’s most famous jailer. Burl Cain recently resigned as the warden of Louisiana’s Angola maximum security prison. For 21 years Cain ran the largest prison in the state that incarcerated the greatest proportion of its citizens than any other. Cain is outspoken about the

A bill to allow people to have some felony convictions expunged from the records was passed by the Kentucky house on Friday morning January 15th by a vote of 80-11. The bill would allow people who have completed their sentences and had a clean record for at least 5 years

The musical Les Misérables has become more well known since the release of a motion picture based on the book by Victor Hugo and the play of the same name in 2012. The original story, written in 1862, focuses on the life of Jean Valjean, a convict unjustly sentenced to

I met with a group of retired folks this week, as a part of a ministry in our church. I pulled together some old Christmas ice-breaker items, and thought we would have a pleasant discussion about the meaning of Christmas with a quick question asking everyone about the most important

Fred Landay, owner of the Appliance Warehouse in the Pittsburgh area, offered job opportunities to ex-convicts for much of his time in business. Landay was noted to hire ex-cons no matter the offense (Thomas, 2003). Landay was quoted as saying that he didn’t care about the offense, but whether these

Daniel 1:1-4 NLT During the third year of King Jehoiakim’s reign in Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it with his armies. The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah. When Nebuchadnezzar returned to Babylon, he took with him some of the sacred objects