Among the undisputed letters of Paul, Philippians and Philemon are the only ones written from prison. Many other letters from prison come later as witnesses to the consequences of confessing Jesus as Lord and challenging existing ideologies. From Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison to Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” letters from prison speak of matters of ultimate importance. The fact that they are written from prison gives them an urgency they might not otherwise