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It’s no secret that most Americans disapprove of the way Congress is doing its job, and by “most” I mean an overwhelming majority. The reason most give is that Congress doesn’t seem to get much done.

The following post originally appeared aired as a BreakPoint commentary on March 17.

During a recent visit to Swarthmore College, political scientist Robert Putnam of Harvard asked everyone in the room whose parents had graduated from college to raise their hands.

The following commentary originally appeared on the BreakPoint website.

When a man is sentenced to prison, he is not the only person in his family doing time. If we believe that fathers matter, it’s difficult to deny that his children are also serving a sentence of sorts.

A version of the following post originally aired as a BreakPoint commentary.

It was back in 1997, when I was practically a kid writer here at BreakPoint, that I first heard about Prison Fellowship’s amazing Angel Tree program.

I was moved by how much Chuck Colson and the Prison Fellowship staff poured themselves into making sure that thousands and thousands of prisoners’ children received gifts at Christmas time.

A version of the following post originally aired as a BreakPoint commentary.

The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote that “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” He spoke from experience, having spent four years in Siberia after having his death sentence commuted.

The following post originally appeared as a BreakPoint radio commentary.

If I asked you what prison and salvation have in common, chances are you would draw a blank. I know I would.

But the answer, according to philosopher and theologian Stephen H.

The following post originally appeared as a BreakPoint radio commentary.

Now that Father’s Day is past, we can ignore dads again for another year. I’m joking, of course, but society isn’t. And that’s the problem.

We’ve discussed the cultural attacks on men many times before on BreakPoint, how pop culture is fond of portraying them as over-grown adolescents, or worse, as sadistic and violent haters of women.

The following post originally appeared as a BreakPoint radio commentary.

For a long time, Prison Fellowship has believed that the United States incarcerates far too many people at far too high a cost. What’s more, that cost does not take into account an important set of victims: the innocent children of offenders.

The following post originally aired as a BreakPoint radio commentary on October 31, 2013.  To learn more about BreakPoint, to hear previous broadcasts, or to find a radio station in your area.

It was back in 1998, when I was practically a kid writer here at BreakPoint, that I first heard about Prison Fellowship’s amazing Angel Tree program.

The following commentary originally appeared on the Colson Center for Christian Worldview’s Breakpoint website.  For more more information about the work of the Colson Center, and how to subscribe to Eric Metaxas’ daily commentaries, visit www.breakpoint.org.

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