I can tell you from experience that the two biggest needs of someone just walking out of prison are housing and employment, in that order, and providing newly released prisoners with access to both of those things costs much less than reincarceration.

Before any lasting peace can be reached, Palestinian citizens of the state of Israel and elsewhere must have protections and civil rights that promote stability and an end to all violence.

Each week in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

People who possess power over others do whatever they want within that power arrangement. People without power are subject to the whims of others and left to accept the things being done to them by the powerful around them — unless and until they are willing and able to fight back and resist.

I share this side of myself because of the many ways the creativity that comes with my ADHD has benefited my ministry. I have a seemingly endless well of curiosity and vision, and I can credit that only to God and the way my brain’s wired.