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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.
The Postmodern Crackup
From soccer moms to college campuses, signs of the end.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse
posted 12/09/2003
Sowing Confusion
One small ruling for Texas; one giant leap into a cultural abyss.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse
posted 10/03/2003
Being Here
Why we should sink our roots in the places we call home.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse
posted 07/28/2003
Beyond Condoms
To alleviate AIDS, we must sharpen our moral vision.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse
posted 06/10/2003
Taming Beasts
Raising the moral status of dogs has created a breed of snarling, dangerous humans.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse
posted 04/03/2003
Faith vs. Statistics
Beware of doing ethics by crunching numbers.
By Charles Colson
posted 1/28/2003
Just War in Iraq
Sometimes going to war is the charitable thing to do.
By Charles Colson
posted 12/10/2002
A Clan Of One's Own
Hacking through the jungle of identity politics.
By Charles Colson
posted 10/9/2002
Undaunted
Bioethics challenges are huge. But so is God.
By Charles Colson
posted 07/31/2002
The Wages of Secularism
New laws won't prevent another Enron.
By Charles Colson
posted 06/04/2002
More Doctrine, Not Less
We need to proclaim truth to a truth-impaired generation.
By Charles Colson
posted 04/15/2002
Post-Truth Society
The recent trend of lying is no accident.
By Charles Colson
posted 03/04/2002
Drawing the Battle Lines
We need to be informed and discerning about the Islamic worldview.
By Charles Colson
posted 01/09/2002
Wake-up Call
If September 11 was a divine warning, it's God's people who are being warned.
By Charles Colson
posted 11/05/2001
The New Tyranny
Biotechnology threatens to turn humanity into raw material.
By Charles Colson
posted 10/5/2001
Reversing Memory Loss
The language of faith doesn't have to become a foreign tongue.
By Charles Colson
posted 7/25/01
Merchants of Cool
We should be angry that the media hawks violence and that parents allow it.
By Charles Colson
posted 6/6/01
Slouching into Sloth
The XFL is but the latest sign of the coarsening of our culture.
By Charles Colson
posted 4/17/01
Checks and (out of) Balance
Moral truth is in jeopardy when the courts enter the business of making law.
By Charles Colson
posted 2/27/01
Pander Politics
Poll-driven elections turn voters into self-seeking consumers.
By Charles Colson
posted 1/3/01
Neighborhood Outpost
Changing a culture takes more than politics.
By Charles Colson
posted 11/8/00
MAD No More
In this post-Cold War era, it's time to rethink our nation's defensive strategy.
By Charles Colson
posted 9/27/00
Salad-Bar Christianity
Too many believers pick and choose their own truths.
By Charles Colson
posted 8/8/00
A Healthy 'Cult'
A lively response by one unusual audience shows how God's power transforms culture.
By Charles Colson
posted 6/12/00
The Court's In Session
Are Christians ready to make their case?
By Charles Colson
posted 4/25/00
The Ugly Side of Tolerance
How to be offensive without really trying.
By Charles Colson
posted 3/2/00
Beating the Odds
Christians in two states defeat gambling by exposing its harmful effects on the poor.
By Charles Colson
posted 1/4/00
Scout's Dishonor
The judge told the Scouts just what their oath meant—and didn't mean.
By Charles Colson
posted 11/15/99
What Are We Doing Here?
By Charles Colson
posted 10/4/99
How Evil Became Cool
The Littleton killers were mirroring in grotesque action what the adult culture advocates in abstract concepts.
By Charles Colson
posted 8/9/99
Does Kosovo Pass the Just-War Test?
The military intervention introduces moral questions that the church ought to raise now, not waiting until the body bags start coming home.
By Charles Colson
posted 5/24/99
Why We Should Be Hopeful
The same week Ron confessed, Mrs. Washington felt an overwhelming conviction to forgive the man who had murdered her daughter.
By Charles Colson
posted 4/26/99
Moral Education After Monica
Louise Cowan tells how she lost her childhood faith while in university religion courses—only to regain it in literature courses.
By Charles Colson
posted 3/1/99
The Sky Isn't Falling
The only remaining "ism" is postmodernism. And it is a formalized expression of despair.
By Charles Colson
posted 1/11/99
Poster Boy for Postmodernism
Strohmeyer told police he strangled the little girl by twisting her neck the way he had seen in movies.
By Charles Colson
posted 11/16/98
Evangelicals Are Not an Interest Group
Our message is not, We put you in office, now pay up; but rather, This should be done because it is right.
By Charles Colson
posted 10/5/98
The Devil in the DNA
The strategy of evolutionary psychology is to debunk traditional morality by reducing it to genetic self-interest.
By Charles Colson
posted 8/10/98
The Oxford Prophet
Lewis predicted a time when those who want to remold human nature "will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state.
By Charles Colson
posted 6/15/98
Why Fidelity Matters
If Americans truly understood what adultery does—that it leads to the disintegration of the human being—they would not dismiss it so lightly.
By Charles Colson
posted 4/27/98
Do We Love Coke More Than Justice?
Will we continue giving aid to nations that burn churches, jail pastors, torture religious believers?
By Charles Colson
posted 3/2/98
Madison Avenue's Spiritual Chic
The typical television commercial is "a morality play for our time."
By Charles Colson
posted 1/12/98
How the Courts Censor Morality
How are Americans to write their moral convictions into law if the courts strike those laws down?
By Charles Colson
posted 11/17/97
Who Holds These Truths?
The Constitution does not give the Supreme Court final say on constitutional questions.
By Charles Colson
posted 10/6/97
Quoting the Bible Isn't Enough
"It's heresy to tell believers not to cite their Bibles," the station manager fumed.
By Charles Colson
posted 8/11/97
Why Max Deserves a Life
If we don't catch all defective babies before birth, some doctors have recommended letting them die after birth.
By Charles Colson
posted 6/16/97
Can We Still Pledge Allegiance?
Recent Supreme Court decisions have short-circuited the democratic process.
By Charles Colson
posted 4/28/97
Victory over Napalm
The frail, South Vietnamese woman spoke words of forgiveness and reconciliation.
By Charles Colson
posted 3/3/97
Cleanliness Is Next to Crimelessness
When I visit prisons where floors are shiny, morale is noticeably higher.
By Charles Colson
posted 1/6/97
Why Women Like Big Government
The sexual revolution promised liberation from traditional morality, but the only folks liberated were men.
By Charles Colson
posted 11/11/96
Why Not Gay Marriage?
If people believe marriage is just an invention, then they will feel free to change it, redefine it, or even discard it.
By Charles Colson
posted 10/28/96
Who Writes Charles Colson's Columns?
The LA Times was wrong when it said Colson just signs off on staffwriting, says CT's editor.
By David Neff
posted 03/27/2002
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