Both times Jim Liske (CEO of Prison Fellowship, Justice Fellowship and BreakPoint / Colson Center) has done the daily BreakPoint Commentary, the web traffic to BreakPoint.org has reached 12,000 visitors a day. That is about triple the normal traffic for that site. The two commentaries were: Jesus Forgives, Do We?:  Ex-Offenders and Employment (February 7) and Where the Church Belongs: Worldview Hits the Streets (February 21). It is safe to say that the mixing of social issues with Christian worldview gets attention.

When analyzing the traffic, though, even more comes into view. Of the 12,000 visitors on
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Jim Liske, the CEO of Prison Fellowship, Justice Fellowship and BreakPoint / Colson Center, recently gave a presentation on ethics at CharlotteOne. (CharlotteONE is a city-wide worship gathering for young adults/professionals in Charlotte, NC.  On Tuesday nights throughout the year, hundreds gather together across denominational lines to worship God as ONE in the heart of Uptown).  Jim was standing in for Chuck Colson, who had been scheduled to speak there on ethics, a topic he is much on demand for after the very successful launch of the 6-part ethics DVD series "Doing The Right Thing" last year. Jim proceeded to deliver a 36-minute talk on where ethics comes from, how it is related to the local church committing itself to Jesus and the poor, and how in early church history, these principles dramatically changed the Roman empire. It is a phenomenal speech and you can listen to it here . (Another link to library which contains it).

Chuck Colson, Cardinal Wuerl (Archbishop of Washington) and Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik of New York co-authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. The article contains a strong plea for religious freedom in the wake of the HHS firestorm.

Here is the link:

United We Stand for Religious Freedom

Dr. James Dobson pre-empted his regular programming today in order to talk with Chuck Colson on the phone about the threat to freedom of religion and conscience in the Obama administration's HHS initiative. It is already posted on the Dr. Dobson's Family Talk site here. You can listen to it now.

Colson does a masterful job explaining the legal intricacies of the health care legislation, what it means in this case and what could happen if this order is not stopped.
Here are some quick notes from the first part of the audio file:
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An article has just gone up on Christianity Today and is billed as:

First They Came for the Catholics: Obama's Contraceptive Mandate

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Dr. Timothy George spoke recently at Judson College for a missions conference and talked about the heroes of Germany who stood up to Hitler and the Nazi propaganda by continually speaking truth. George is Dean of Beeson Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of BreakPoint / Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

The title of the article written about him and the speech was:
Scholar compares culture-war issues to Germans who resisted Hitler.

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Chuck Colson's op-ed just appeared in the Washington Post. The title is:
Why punish ex-offenders with a voting ban?

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What role does faith play in politics? How do Christians reach the poor? How is our faith critical to the fight for human rights around the world?

During this fascinating conversation, Chuck Colson, John Stonestreet and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter discuss all of these questions and more, evaluating them as part of Carter’s message expressed in his new one-year devotional, Through the Year.

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