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Charles Colson

Charles Colson is the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries, an outreach to convicts, victims of crime, and justice officers. Colson is the author of several books, including How Now Shall We Live? and a daily radio feature, BreakPoint, which airs on 1,000 radio networks. In 1993 Colson won the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

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The Problem of Goodness
It's not just the problem of evil that baffles the secularist.

Charles Colson with Catherine Larson | posted 12/22/2009 11:12AM

When Atheists Believe
The confounding attraction of the Christian worldview.

Chuck Colson with Catherine Larson | posted 10/22/2009 10:11AM

We Need Health-Care Reform
And the real question is who gets to decide who gets attention.

Charles Colson with Catherine Larson | posted 7/22/2009 08:50AM

Protecting Our Little Platoons
There's reason to be concerned for the future of voluntary organizations.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 6/10/2009 09:03AM

Doctrine Bears Repeating
Evangelicals need to brush up on basic Christian teachings.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 3/24/2009 10:16AM

Political Exile
A strategy for social conservatives in a socially liberal era.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 2/05/2009 08:50AM

A Serious Decay
We're paying the bill for relativism.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 12/31/2008 08:45AM

Voting Like It Matters
It's not only our civic duty — it's a sacred one.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 10/10/2008 08:12AM

Jeremiah at Harvard
Three decades after Solzhenitsyn's speech, where do we find ourselves?

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 8/05/2008 08:30AM

The Great (Non)debate
Why are the candidates ignoring the huge problem under our noses?

Charles Colson, with Anne Morse | posted 6/24/2008 08:54AM

Keeping Pets in Their Place
Why we can't afford to treat animals like they're humans.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 4/29/2008 08:27AM

No Utter Collapse
Recent reports of our demise betray the media's ignorance about who we are.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 2/29/2008 09:05AM

The Invasion of God
The so-called Christmas wars are much larger than we imagine.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 12/06/2007 08:51AM

Community of Memory
We're on the verge of destroying a key pillar of civilization.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse. | posted 10/15/2007 08:53AM

Promises, Promises
How to really build a 'great society.'

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 8/07/2007 08:39AM

Overheated Rhetoric
What should we make of bestselling books blasting Christians?

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 6/21/2007 08:41AM

War on the Weak
Eugenics has made a lethal comeback.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 12/04/2006 08:59AM

The Earmark Epidemic
The disease must be cured for the common good.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 9/25/2006 07:51AM

Bad Judgment
Ruling imperils faith-based programs around the country.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 8/01/2006 12:00AM

Emerging Confusion
Jesus is the truth whether we experience him or not.

Charles Colson with Anne Morse | posted 6/01/2006 12:00AM

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Talk, Research, Marry
What Elizabeth Gilbert discovered about marriage before she ate her words in Committed.

Review by Cindy Crosby | posted 2/09/2010 09:49AM

Casting Too Wide a Net
Ministries protest proposed finance reform.

Ken Walker | posted 2/09/2010 09:50AM

Readers Write
Your responses to the December 2009 issue of Christianity Today.

posted 2/09/2010 09:52AM

Why Pope John Paul II Whipped Himself
New book reopens questions on self-denial and "what is lacking in Christ's afflictions."

Collin Hansen | posted 2/08/2010 09:11AM

Quotation Marks
Recent remarks Jim Dobson's new organization, Montana's assisted suicide, and other topics.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 2/08/2010 09:12AM

More important than winning the argument against relativism is winning the relativist for Christ.

Mark L. Y. Chan | posted 1/21/2010 04:23PM

My Top 5 Books on Sports
Picks from Andrew Parker, professor of sport and Christian outreach at the University of Gloucestershire

Andrew Parker | posted 2/05/2010 10:01AM

Go Figure
Recent statistics on converts' zeal, faith-based funding, preaching social issues, and other topics.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 2/05/2010 10:00AM

FRC, AFA Say Gay Sex Should Be a Crime
The debate over antisodomy laws moves from Uganda back to the U.S. Also: Groups debate immigration reform, abstinence education, and Scott Roeder.

Tobin Grant | posted 2/05/2010 11:31AM

Are We Transformed Yet?
Why the spiritually mature don't talk about how God has made them spiritually mature.

Mark Galli | posted 2/04/2010 09:27AM

Faith Equals Action
To White House Fellow Adam Taylor, the math is simple.

Mark Moring and Tim Stafford | posted 2/04/2010 09:29AM

Strong on Zeal, Thin in Knowledge
Lessons from Haiti's arrest of American Christians trying to take children out of the country.

Jedd Medefind | posted 2/03/2010 09:56AM

Poll: Does your church tend to attract a certain age group?

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