In addition to working with children at Jill's House (see previous post), I am enjoying another of my favorite activities: reading and encouraging young people to read.
Many of you are familiar with Chuck Colson, famous for being one of former President Richard Nixon's top "hatchet men." Colson converted to Christianity in 1973 while imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal. He went on to found a world-wide ministry to prisoners, and has become an articulate spokesman for the accuracy and importance of a Christian worldview. (His 1987 book, Kingdoms in Conflict, introduced me to 18th-century British statesman, William Wilberforce—the leader of the abolition movement in England—eventually leading to my masters thesis, Legislative Compromise as Moral Strategy: Lessons for the Pro-life Movement from the Abolitionism of William Wilberforce.)
But I digress.
In September, I began writing reviews of books for the Youth READS section of Colson's worldview website, BreakPoint.org. These reviews are intended as a resource for parents as they pastor their children's reading activities. For an index of all Youth READS reviews, click here. To go directly to one of my reviews, scroll down (here on my blog) to view, in the right-hand column, a list of titles linked to individual reviews. I'll add new titles to this list as the reviews are posted.
