Burden of Truth: Defending the Truth in a World That Doesn't Believe It [Hardcover]

Charles W. Colson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1997

Burden of Truth is a compilation of broadcast scripts from Charles Colson's radio program, BreakPoint, focusing on the necessity to reinforce commitment to the search for truth as opposed to a generic ethical system designed to merely prop up society.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale House Pub; First Edition edition (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0842334750
• ISBN-13: 978-0842334754
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,866,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The well-known story of Charles Colson's transformation from President Richard Nixon's "hatchet man" who was "incapable of humanitarian thoughts" to founder of the Prison Fellowship Ministries and internationally recognized Christian author and speaker is a triumph of God finding a man and a man finding God. His 1973 conversion to Christianity was followed by a guilty plea to obstruction of justice and a seven-month prison sentence in 1974. He founded Prison Fellowship Ministries in 1976, fulfilling a promise made to fellow inmates that he would "never forget those behind bars."

Charles Colson's first book, "Born Again," was released in 1976 and instantly became an international best seller. He has authored 16 books that have collectively sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, including "Justice That Restores," "How Now Shall We Live?," "Burden of Truth," "Answers to Your Kids' Questions," "The Good Life," "Gideon's Torch," "Why America Doesn't Work," "Kingdoms in Conflict," and "Loving God."

The phenomenal growth of Prison Fellowship Ministries over the last 25 years leads Charles Colson and some 50,000 volunteers to serve the needs of prisoners in over 88 countries. In addition to Prison Fellowship, he founded Justice Fellowship, Neighbors Who Care, and Angel Tree. Angel Tree is a program that provides Christmas presents to more than 500,000 children of inmates annually. He is also a syndicated columnist, international speaker, and commentator on the nationally syndicated radio broadcast "BreakPoint." He received the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1993 and donated the $1 million prize to Prison Fellowship's Endowment Fund.

Charles Colson remains committed to the unity of the church, the relationships between church and state, and the struggle between the spiritual and secular worlds. He constantly encourages Christians to understand biblical faith as an entire worldview and to adopt biblical faith as a perspective on all life.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall a good book, September 4, 2001

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Michael Freeman (Blanchard, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Burden of Truth: Defending the Truth in a World That Doesn't Believe It (Hardcover)

Those of you who enjoy Colson's "Breakpoint" radio series will definitely enjoy this book, for it is a compilation of many of those "episodes."

The book is divided up by topic into various "chapters," with 6 to 10 short "clips" per chapter. Some will warm your heart, some will make you angry at the world we're in, and some will make you wonder how people could be so stupid!

This is a good book to read if your looking for somthing light, or if you aren't able to devote undivided attention to something deeper, or if you're looking for something you can read to fill in short intervals of time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More short, simple, and readable Potato Chip editorials., September 18, 2002

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Burden of Truth: Defending the Truth in a World That Doesn't Believe It (Hardcover)

Once again the texts of several of Charles Colson's BreakPoint radio commentaries are collected into the book format. As with A Dance with Deception, which I finished a short while ago, the short editorials focusing on the difficulties with maintaining a fundamental Christian world view in a seeming increasingly harsh and anti-Christian world are readable and, more importantly, thought provoking. Recommended.

10 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars lots of stretching and warmup, not much running, February 26, 2000

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This review is from: Burden of Truth: Defending Truth in an Age of Unbelief (Paperback)

Turning to the first page of this book, I expected a hard hitting, unified description of "truth in an age of unbelief." The book is definitely hard hitting, and Chuck Colson is renowned for his willingness to take on issues that are controversial.

What's missing in this book is unity. This book is essentially a series of anecdotes. "Eclectic" is the word that comes to mind. This is a good book to read, I guess, if you only have three pages worth of time to read in each sitting, and you don't mind switching topics after those three pages. Or it might be useful to students looking for ideas to develop into a research paper.

That type of content proved too fragmented for me to enjoy. This was my first book by this author; I will check the Table of Contents more carefully before beginning my next Chuck Colson book.