I wasn’t sure what to expect, but this book really got to me. The way Grady connects the parables with real stories from prison, it just hits different. It made me see both Scripture and people in a new light.

My husband’s incarcerated, and honestly, reading this brought me a kind of peace I didn’t know I needed. It reminded me that God is still working, even in places like prison.

This book is powerful. Grady tells it like it is, no fluff, just real life and genuine faith. I found myself nodding, tearing up, and even laughing at times. It’s the kind of book that sticks with you.

I’ve worked in corrections for years, and this book... wow. It captured the reality of prison but also the hope that lives there. I’ve never read anything like it.

It felt like I was sitting in a chapel hearing these stories firsthand. Every chapter pulled me in. If you want a book that’s honest, heartfelt, and full of grace, this is it.

I’ve been thinking about your words in this chapter and I can see your experience coming out in it. It accurately describes the view of the frustrated heart of inmates in a way that makes sense. The longing heart being artificially filled and never finding enough, and the changed life that offers enough when that heart is filled by Christ is what I see in this chapter. Relative to writing a review, and of course having not read the book yet, my first thoughts are along these lines, “This is the prose of an accomplished, tenured, and weathered Prison Chaplain that speaks from his experience, and his heart to help the world understand the desperation in the heart of a criminal, and the transforming hope found in Christ offered to the same man. The author is not jaded in his prison experience, but rather, the time increased his compassion and love for those who made the wrong choices in this “land of not enough”.

You gave me a book entitled "Worshipping At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry." You leant me an ear often during that time, rebuilding my mind and spirit before I returned to general population back in the Federal System. Our Lord has been so much more than faithful and gracious to me through my sentence, which ended in 2012. Thanks to Him, I re-found my spiritual feet and my bearings and continue to leave my past and search Him for my future. I want to take a moment to say (from the sea of faces that have passed your way) "thank you." Thank you for being Christ's, thank you for being different, thank you for making yourself available. I am 1 soul who will never forget you and 1 soul who will never, ever quit.

This book is very insightful. For me, it is very meaningful to put Jesus' stories in a different, relatable point of view. It gives these stories new meaning. As a former correctional officer in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, I appreciate hearing these stories. One thing that is often missed by prison workers is that they miss a large aspect of why we are there. It's called corrections for a reason. The correcting part of corrections is too often missed. It is refreshing to hear that Grady was actually putting the namesake into action.