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With a a biography hitting the racks Chuck Colson is once again receiving wide attention. Couldn't be better timing as Deep Throat brings Watergate back to our attention. As a NY Times editorial/review notes regarding Colson's work/biography:

Prison reform has been a liberal cause since the Quakers founded the first penitentiary, Philadelphia's Walnut Street Jail, in 1790. Political conservatives have traditionally been more focused on punishing criminals than on reforming them, and religious conservatives have generally felt the same way. "The evangelical church has some great strengths," Mr. Colson said in an interview, but historically, "concern for the poor and the marginal was not one of them."

If you haven't already, check out his Prison Fellowship Ministry . . .

his interview by Christianity Today . . . or pick up one of his books. My first encounter with Chuck's ministry was while a student at Grove City College when Annette Schwind passed along to me a copy of his book The Body I found this a particularly helpful piece while considering the connectivity of the People of God across the structures which have developed over Church history.