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PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Eric Metaxas

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A Mother’s Confession: How God Used Angel Tree to Melt Her Heart

A version of the following article originally aired as a BreakPoint commentary, and is reproduced here with permission.

It was back in the 1990s when I was practically a kid writer here at BreakPoint that I first heard about Prison Fellowship’s amazing Angel Tree program.

By Eric Metaxas
October 25, 2016
Angel Tree | Breakpoint | Confession | Eric Metaxas | Family
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The New Normless

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.

By Eric Metaxas
March 17, 2015
Chuck Colson | College | David Brooks | education | Eric Metaxas | Relativism | Robert Putnam
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Restoring All Things

Prison Fellowship and the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview are partnering with WORLD News Group and Focus on the Family for the Restoring All Things Conference, an inspiring event taking place this April with stops in Grand Rapids, Atlanta, and Dallas.

By Prison Fellowship
January 20, 2015
Dallas | Eric Metaxas | From the CEO | Georgia | Grand Rapids | Jennifer Marshall | Jim Daly | John Stonestreet | Michigan | Restoring All Things | Texas | Warren Smith
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Prisoners’ Children Need You

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.

By Eric Metaxas
October 28, 2014
Angel Tree | Breakpoint | Christmas | Eric Metaxas
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No Disposable People

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.

By Eric Metaxas
September 23, 2014
Burl Cain | Dignity | Eric Metaxas | First Things | Peter Leithart
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Men Who Serve and Protect

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.

By Eric Metaxas
June 20, 2014
Breakpoint | Eric Metaxas | Fatherhood | Fathers | Parenting | Wisconsin Family Council
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For Such a Time as This

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.

By Eric Metaxas
June 16, 2014
Children | Eric Metaxas | Families | Fathers | Restoration | Restorative Justice
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Three Generations of Eugenics

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.

Improve the human race by eliminating the weak.

By Eric Metaxas
July 15, 2013
Breakpoint | California | Eric Metaxas | Eugenics | Sterilization

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