Bikram Mishra is a formerly incarcerated person who now works as a business instructor to the incarcerated at Adam’s State University in Alamosa. He shares his story and then talks about an innovative idea coming out of Colorado: People incarcerated in Colorado can now reduce their prison sentence by earning a college degree.

Bikram says: "We joke about jailhouse religion–in reality that’s all religion is. There's a connection between brokenness, and looking outside of yourself. If you open the Bible everyone has either gone to a desert or gone to a prison."

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Bikram Mishra is a formerly incarcerated person who now works as a business instructor to the incarcerated at Adam’s State University in Alamosa. He shares his story and then talks about an innovative idea coming out of Colorado: <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2023/07/05/colorado-prison-higher-education-sentence-reduction/">People incarcerated in Colorado can now reduce their prison sentence by earning a college degree.</a>
Bikram says: "We joke about jailhouse religion–in reality that’s all religion is. There's a connection between brokenness, and looking outside of yourself. If you open the Bible everyone has either gone to a desert or gone to a prison."
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The idea of “the common good” has a rich history within the Christian church. It’s the notion that, as we pursue Jesus in our lives and in the lives of others, we are fulfilling God’s purposes for His creation. This pursuit can be messy. It means rolling up our sleeves and creating space for hard conversations about real issues that impact our lives. Things like parenting, marriage, finances, politics, art, and culture. On The Common Good, Brian From creates space to have these conversations, to sit with the big questions that we all have, to sometimes disagree, but to always look for the chance to create common good, by following after Jesus. Brian welcome listeners to join them in these conversations, to bring their own questions, hopes, and struggles, and to ultimately share in a journey to see God’s design for all of us fulfilled.

The idea of &ldquo;the common good&rdquo; has a rich history within the Christian church. It&rsquo;s the notion that, as we pursue Jesus in our lives and in the lives of others, we are fulfilling God&rsquo;s purposes for His creation. This pursuit can be messy. It means rolling up our sleeves and creating space for hard conversations about real issues that impact our lives. Things like parenting, marriage, finances, politics, art, and culture. On The Common Good, Brian From creates space to have these conversations, to sit with the big questions that we all have, to sometimes disagree, but to always look for the chance to create common good, by following after Jesus. Brian welcome listeners to join them in these conversations, to bring their own questions, hopes, and struggles, and to ultimately share in a journey to see God&rsquo;s design for all of us fulfilled.