Grace Under Pressure

At 12:35 a.m. on October 24, 1999, the phone rang.

That phone call thrust Carol Kent into a waking nightmare. Her son, 25-year-old Jason, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a strong Christian, had been charged with the murder of his wife’s ex-husband.

Even as Carol and her husband, Gene, reeled with the devastating news, a story of hope and redemption began emerging alongside the despair.

A Fight to the Life

Long before—and long after—his military service in Desert Storm, Dave Koliba warred against formidable enemies.

Untrained and unguarded, he wasn’t prepared for the first ambush—sexual abuse at the age of nine by a teenage neighbor. Dave had slept over at a friend’s house after a day of swimming in the backyard. He didn’t know that enemies could come in the form of friends’ older brothers.

Upside-Down Parole Policy Puts Us All at Risk

We were all delighted to hear that Jaycee Dugard, the young woman who had been kidnapped 18 years earlier in northern California, had been found alive. Once the elation subsided, however, and more information about her alleged kidnappers became public, we had less reason to rejoice.