Doing Time: A Spiritual Survival Guide

by Jonathan Aitken, Edward Smyth

Jonathan Aitken and Edward Smyth both experienced a dramatic fall from grace.

Each of them found themselves removed from their homes and loved ones, locked up in prison and having to deal with the fallout of their actions. However, in the middle of their lowest point they discovered something life-changing. God hadn't forgotten about them.

Doing Time offers encouragement and advice on how to survive and even make the most of life inside prison. Offering the sort of practical and spiritual wisdom that only comes from personal experience, it shows that it is never too late for God to help us find a new way forward in our lives.

96 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2021

About the author

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for 24 years, and a former British government Cabinet minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months.

Reviews

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A practical advice book about getting through a prison sentence. Heavy on faith but illuminating and interesting from two perspectives. Different types of prisons and categories. Both still involved with prisons but as part of the chaplaincy.