This article argues that the evangelical church needs to embrace and adopt ascetic practices based in monastic asceticism. After suggesting why the evangelical church does not embrace asceticism, Peters demonstrates that a monastic asceticism is a biblical asceticism and should be a fundamental feature of evangelical faith and practice.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss exhorts professors of practical theology to include Christian spiritual classics—texts that have proven valuable across centuries and cultures—in their classes.

Dr. Jason S. Sexton argues that lack of engagement with the theological roots of contemporary punishment, correction, and rehabilitation both prevents adequately grappling with the foundational underpinnings of the prison as a reality and also doesn't adequately allow the prison and its fullest operative realities to be understood.

Dr. Jason S. Sexton interviews twenty-four former prisoners who participated in the incarcerated church in order to present a coherent theological vision of what the members of the prison church both are and could increasingly become "on the inside."