Chuck Colson

• Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, Part One
  In the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there was a well-publicized spike in attendance at religious services. This spike, and other events, led columnist...
  Friday, September 13, 2002
• A New Century of Martyrs: Anti-Christian Intolerance
  Martin Burnham is the newest member of "the white-robe army of the martyrs" -- an army that, according to a recent estimate, is a staggering 70 million strong. But what's even more staggering is...
  Tuesday, June 18, 2002
• Embryos, Human Cloning and the Image of God
  The question of what it means to be human is at stake, and Christians must take the lead in upholding the value and dignity of all human life from conception to old age.
  Wednesday, April 10, 2002
• Prisoners' Kids and the State of the Union
  I was especially thrilled that the president reaffirmed his commitment to faith-based solutions and specifically singled out the children of prisoners. I've talked with the president about Angel...
  Friday, February 8, 2002
• An Exodus in Search of A Moses: 630,000 Released Prisoners
  A year ago, Jean Sanders was released from the Gowanda Correctional Facility in upstate New York. He had lots of company. This year, 630,000 offenders will be released from American prisons.
  Thursday, January 31, 2002
• Misery and Massacre: Jihad's Worldwide Victims
  The group that gathered at the United Nations last Wednesday was made up of victims of jihad violence from around the world. Standing not far from Ground Zero, these victims wanted to remind...
  Friday, January 18, 2002
• Defrocking Frodo and the Death of Imagination
  "Past the brooding lands of Mordor, across the river Nimrodel, far beyond the lush valley of Rivendell, the gentle followers of Frodo are freaking out." So says a story recently in the L.A. Times...
  Thursday, January 10, 2002
• What Did Our Founders Think?
  We often hear that a person's private conduct is unrelated to the performance of his or her public duties. This is especially true if the private failings involve sexual matters.
  Thursday, January 10, 2002
• Becoming Better Readers
  More Christians are reading fiction now than ever before. That might be because more Christians are writing fiction.
  Wednesday, January 9, 2002
• Taming Secular Lions: Rebuilding the Culture
  Let me tell you about a BreakPoint listener who sneaked Christian thinking past the secular lions and lived to tell about it.
  Thursday, December 27, 2001
• Mushy Ecumenism: Incoherent Civil Religion
  Christians must be careful not to allow support and acceptance of our Muslim neighbors to sink into a kind of mushy civil religion -- one that obscures the truth about both Christianity and Islam.
  Wednesday, December 19, 2001
• Sins of the Father: AIDS Orphans & American Christians
  "Sub-Saharan Africa." To those who understand something about African affairs, that phrase is synonymous with "tragedy." Since these countries gained their independence in the early sixties,...
  Friday, December 14, 2001
• Are the Taliban "Puritans"?
  Puritans have been getting a bad rap for years. During Prohibition, journalist H. L. Mencken called Puritanism "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
  Monday, December 10, 2001
• The Moral Universe of Film & Television
  Ask most Christians what they think is wrong with movies and television shows and they'll probably cite examples of violence, sexual content, and profanity. Yet the problem with a lot of what we...
  Saturday, December 8, 2001
• God's Instrument
  Most of us know the Pilgrim version of the first Thanksgiving, but how many of us know the Indian viewpoint? I'm not talking about revisionist history. I'm talking about the amazing story of the...
  Friday, December 7, 2001
• Shopping Our Way to Victory
  Spatulas, shampoo, and coffee beans are things you can buy with the Discover Card, the product featured in the ad. And Discover isn't the only one proclaiming that the way to show your love for...
  Friday, December 7, 2001
• How Christianity Taught the World to Care
  The world has been changed for the better precisely because Christians weren't willing to treat their faith as a purely private matter. In no area has this been more true than in Christianity's...
  Friday, December 7, 2001
• Are the Blind Leading the Blind?
  "Worldview blindness" is a direct result of people compartmentalizing their faith. We blithely practice one thing in church and just the opposite during the rest of the week.
  Friday, September 7, 2001