Timothy George talks with John Stonestreet about culture apart from a Biblical worldview.

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.

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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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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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It was an extraordinary moment at the Republican convention last month when Mike Huckabee, a Baptist preacher turned politician, criticized Barack Obama for insisting that people have to “violate their faith and conscience in order to comply with what he calls health care. Friends . . . let me say it as clearly as possible, that the attack on my Catholic brothers and sisters is an attack on me.” The attack to which Huckabee was referring, of course, is that section of President Obama’s health care plan which requires virtually all institutions to provide contraceptives to their employees, even those religious organizations which reject contraception on moral grounds. Read More >

In the September 2012 edition of "Christianity Today," Timothy George wrote a moving tribute of Chuck Colson, "Against the Stream."  Chuck Colson, George maintains, continually show his love for and hope in God. George will also tell you the story of how he came to be sole writer for CT's column Contra Mundum.  (Subscription needed)

In "Southern Baptists’ Long Journey" (Frist Things, October 2012), Timothy George reflects on the recent election of Fred Luter as the first African-American President of the Southern Baptist Convention. (Subscription needed)

Note: This is the first of a series of monthly letters from Colson Center Chairman of the Board, Dr. Timothy George.

Thoughts on the Upcoming Elections
By Dr. Timothy George,
Chairman of the Board, Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview

Earlier this year, in the midst of the presidential primary season, I was asked to address a group of Southern Baptist pastors on the question of Christian faith and political engagement. Though no one knew for sure who the candidates would be at that time, the first question I was asked was, “How should an evangelical Christian decide who to support in this election?” That was a legitimate question, and has prompted me to think of some wider implications.

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