By the Rev. Gordon Stewart | Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. Social commentary based on story of Paul and Silas in the biblical Book of the Acts of the Apostles informed by songwriter Timothy Frantzich’s song “All the Prison Doors Swung Open”. Excerpt:

We’re all in prison. And yet we’re free. We’re in the prison of deregulated corporate capitalism.

We’re back in the Roman Empire, where Paul and Silas were thrown in prison because they dared to interfere with the free market. They freed a young slave-girl who had been put on the street corner as a fortune teller. She lived on Main Street; all the money from her fortune-telling went to her slave owners on Wall Street….