Hitting Our Stride
Continuing the Legacy of Chuck Colson
By Alan Terwilleger

Make no mistake. This has been a challenging year for us here at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, ever since our founder, mentor, brother, and our dear friend Chuck Colson went home to be with the Lord.

But even as we had to deal with the shock, our team here knew what Chuck would want us to do: Keep going. Keep teaching fellow believers how to defend the faith winsomely; keep building a movement of Christian organizations and individuals committed to advancing the Kingdom; keep inspiring people to live out what they believe.

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It was one of Chuck Colson’s favorite times of year: The annual Wilberforce Weekend conference: teaching, worship, fellowship, and the bestowal of the year’s William Wilberforce Award.

This year’s conference, “Making the Invisible Kingdom Visible,” is right around the corner, April 26th through 28th, right across the river from Washington, DC.

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In the most recent edition of Beeson Divinity School's podcast, Colson Center Chairman Dr. Timothy George interviews Prison Fellowship CEO Jim Liske about the ongoing and expanding work Chuck Colson started so many years ago: ministering to those behind prison walls.

Click here to listen to the full podcast.

I was in New York City when it happened, some thirty-five miles from an event so horrific we can hardly imagine it, much less describe it.  “Words strain, crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision,” wrote T. S. Eliot.  Horror, tragedy, murder—all slip-sliding words for what happened in Newtown, Connecticut.  Such words do not work, because we also use them in other, less-serious senses.  We speak of horror films, tragic dramas, and murder on the Orient Express.  Something deeper, darker is going on here.

Who, what, when, where, were quickly answered.  But the why question lingers, festers.  Not only why Adam Lanza, a young man barely out of his teens, could have done what he did—was it the broken family, violent video games, too easy access to weapons of war?  But also the deeper “why?” Why we live in a world where things like this happen, why God didn’t step in and stop the bullets, and why human beings continue to ask why, and why Jesus asked why in the darkest moment of his life on the cross: “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” (Matt. 27:46).

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Just about a year ago, I had the privilege of sitting with Chuck Colson and Dr. Robert George as the Alliance Defending Freedom presented them with the 2011 Edwin Meese III Award for Originalism and Religious Freedom.

And now that Chuck has gone home to be with the Lord, it felt a bit strange to attend this year’s award ceremony. I couldn’t help but think of Chuck and all that God has done through him. And, yes, how much I miss him.

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By Timothy George
This month's "letter" from Dr. Timothy George is an article he  published in the Christian Post on October 31, 2012.

I was in Europe when I first heard of Billy Graham's "endorsement" of Mitt Romney. I was skeptical of this report because I knew that Graham was not in the habit of endorsing a particular candidate for any political office. When I saw a copy of Billy Graham's statement, it made a lot more sense. This is what he said:

On November 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and woman, protect the sanctity of life, and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

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Taking the cultural mandate seriously, we represent the image of God. As representatives of God, we are God’s stewards over the world He has made.

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