Tribute from Roger McGowen

This tribute to Pierre is a letter Roger McGowen wrote to Meena Compagnon Goll, which she shared on the evening of October 31st in Geneva. Yes, Pierre was very special to me, in ways that can never be explained. He took a young man sitting on death row without hope...

Help, I’m drowning… in information

There are two major factors which, combined, make present day living extremely challenging for anyone who attempts to stay informed on major issues of our times. The first one is the weakening of authority in so many areas of life. For thousands of years, people’s...

Thoughts from Roger McGowen

April 2022 The following quotation comes from a very recent letter of Roger W. McGowen (RogerMcGowen.org), a former death row inmate with extremely modest basic primary education whom Pierre, with the help a few friends, got off death row – but not out of...

An extraordinary man and a very out of the ordinary saga

by Pierre Pradervand, co-author, Messages of Life from Death Row October 2019 Let us search for the deeper meaning of this everyday word rarely used with a clear consciousness of its true meaning and especially the nuances of its significance. In its original sense,...

The Shepherd’s Psalm podcast

In this podcast Pierre is offering us a guided meditation based on Psalm 23, the Shepherd’s Psalm, possibly the most universal of all spiritual texts as it is composed entirely of poetic metaphors. There is a brief text which is one of the most universal,...