Growing up in the UK, we always heard a phrase the 3 ”R’s”. It was used in Education to direct everyone’s attention to the 3 basic elements of education - READING, wRiting and aRithmetic (what North America refers to as Math). It meant that this was the basic principle of teaching for any child. Yes, I know, it’s not spelt very well but the general idea caught on. If I told you that it was conceived in 1818 then it certainly stood the time test and it became to be understood

The Golden Rule - why would these words of Jesus be any different than any other. Jesus is reported to have spoken more than 1000 words that are quoted in the Bible. Why is this one from Luke 6 v 31 and Matthew 7 v 12 any more “Golden” than words from the cross? those spoken at the Last Supper? or His Sermon on the Mount? The next step in the Life Recovery programme is one that deals with our previous wrongdoings or hurts which we may have caused to others. A non-believing fr

We all have little voices, little reminders of what someone may have said to us in past times. They will convince us that no-one listens to us, certainly not God. We can get so wrapped up in religion or a puritan attitude that we ignore any reason for praying or seeking God. Mainly, it is the weight of sin which drags us down. Call it our conscience or that because humans are not always the most forgiving, we taken those thoughts on. Inmates are no different. They are in a cl

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in 2008. Maybe not enough people knew about his fight for freedom in Russia. He publicly disagreed with the Communist regime and was jailed or exiled for more than 11 years. He wrote about his incarceration in the Gulag (Russian Prison in Siberia). He became a Christian in 1952 during the latter part of his time in prison. He was quoted many times but he understood the change that had taken place in his life when he said “If only it were all so sim