Washington Family Reunites Behind Bars Dan Houser ran away from home at age 15 to escape his father's drunken abuse and his parents' broken marriage. He found an abandoned home, stole food, and started using drugs and drinking.After Houser committed five burglaries, he was arrested. He... Read more
Missionaries to a Strange Land As the assistant administrator of Religious Services responsible for the Oregon Department of Corrections' volunteer program, I very much appreciate the involvement of the Seventh-day Adventists in providing spiritual care to the incarcerated. In ... Read more
Does Love Actually Work? Incarcerated at the McNeil Island Corrections Center and seven years into a 10-year sentence, the only consistent thing in my life was the routine of incarceration. Things had gotten so bad; I was housed in the Inmate Management Unit or special co... Read more
Did You Know - December 2009 Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the Did You Know? page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF versio... Read more
Christmas Beyond Bars A glowing fireplace with yuletide log, children caroling in the streets, brightly-wrapped packages — these are images of Christmas so many hold dear.But when the Word became flesh, there was little celebration, no red carpet, not even a welcome ma... Read more
Who's At Your Door? In the dead of the night, a knock at the door jarred me awake. I lay still, uncertain of what I'd heard. Then it came again, more persistently.Groggy with sleep, I stumbled across the room, jerked open the door, and was nearly bowled over by an as... Read more
E.E. Cleveland: Pathfinder, PathMaker It wasn't the makings of a novel, but an Adventist evangelistic series. In 1954, a young, dashing minister, Edward Earl Cleveland, set up a large tent in the middle of Montgomery, Alabama's, crime "infested" district, across from a night club on S... Read more
He Aquí la Paciencia de los Santos Dice el himno que "Un hombre llegose de noche a Jesús, buscando la senda de vida y luz." Algunos reconocerán a este hombre como Nicodemo. Aunque Nicodemo no aceptó ni confesó inmediatamente al Cristo, las palabras directas de Jesús a él quedaron o... Read more
Healthy Choices Prepare for the FluThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate the swine flu virus will infect 40 percent of the U.S. population over the next two flu seasons. Remember the personal steps you can take to reduce spread of infectio... Read more
