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Gina R. Dalfonzo
Gina is editor of the BreakPoint blog and a writer for BreakPoint Radio. She was originally hired as BreakPoint’s Web editor on the basis of her merciless proofreading, which has been known to make writers weep. Her own writing, having passed through the hands of other, equally merciless editors, can be found on BreakPoint Online, National Review (both the OnDeadTree and OnDeadPixels versions), The Weekly Standard, and elsewhere. She is also the editor of Dickensblog.
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Alan Eason
Born in Colorado and raised in the hills of Tennessee, Alan Eason returned to Denver at an early age to attend a Bible Institute. He then headed to Europe and spent three years doing mission work in (then communist) Eastern Europe, based in Vienna. Moving a bit away from Austrian Gemuetlichkeit, he anchored in Bitburg, Germany, where for five years he ministered to a church made up mostly of US Air Force families.
In the years since, Alan has served as head minister for a church in Tennessee, owned and operated a Christian bookstore, and helped start several other small businesses. An Internet pioneer in the early ’90s, his persistent dream and prayer was to harness that knowledge and experience to actively spread the news of Christ worldwide. That dream was realized when he became the Internet director for Prison Fellowship Ministries in 2009.
A love of writing and of the public forum, debate and discourse (with a sense of humor of course!) keeps him motivated. He is also working on a master’s degree in journalism at Georgetown University.
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Anne Morse
Anne is senior writer for BreakPoint. She has been writing and editing BreakPoint commentaries and columns with Chuck Colson since 1993. In 2004, she co-authored with Chuck Colson the How Now Shall We Live? Devotional (Tyndale). In 1997, she and Mr. Colson co-authored an award-winning collection of BreakPoint commentaries called Burden of Truth (Tyndale).
Anne contributes to National Review Online, the Weekly Standard, Touchstone, Family Security Matters, Beliefnet, the Independent Women’s Forum, and other publications. Her review of Christina Hoff Sommers’s book, The War Against Boys, was given a first place Evangelical Press Award in the category of critical review. Anne has been called everything from “The Handmaiden of Satan” by the extreme right (for a piece she wrote about the Harry Potter books) to “full-service propagandist” by the extreme left Center for the Media and Democracy, which dislikes everything she writes.
Anne is married to Capt. Brent Morse of the Public Health Service. The couple has two sons in college, Travis and Trevor.
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Allen Thornburgh
Like every other Gen-X kid growing up with a front-porch view of the Washington Monument, Allen Thornburgh just knew that he had to major in government and politics. And then become a missionary to Ukraine, and then a police officer, and then a Corporate America Guy. And ultimately, as realized in 2004, Prison Fellowship’s vice president of direct marketing. It was all so predictable, so cliché.
Allen and his wife met at George Mason University (Final Four 2006!), married in D.C.'s Blizzard of '96, and now homeschool their wonderful children. A member of the third class of Centurions, Allen is a fan of Ronald Reagan, Buddy Holly, Magnum, P.I. reruns, courageous public policy, and uncommon valor.
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Billy Atwell
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., but a Southern boy at heart, Billy Atwell joined the BreakPoint team in January 2009 after graduating from East Carolina University. He holds a B.S. in political science and a B.A. in philosophy.
Billy is a two-time cancer survivor who uses his life experiences and intriguing testimony to reach people through public speaking and writing, with the hope that his story can help others deepen their faith. Additionally, he has volunteered his time to counsel cancer patients so that they might glean some insight that will expedite the emotional and spiritual healing process.
Prior to his current position as the coordinator for The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, he worked as assistant to the public policy director for PFM and as justice reform coordinator under Justice Fellowship's Pat Nolan.
Billy's writing influences are C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and anyone else who smokes a pipe. He enjoys hunting, hiking, writing, and reading. Beyond that, he's actually quite boring. On his personal blog, For the Greater Glory, he writes on Christian Worldview from a Catholic perspective.
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David Carlson
David, alias Dave the Swede, prefers to remain a mystery.
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Dennis Babish
Dennis was born and raised in Aliquippa, PA, home of Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Henry Mancini, and of course Dennis. He received a BS degree in mathematics with a minor in natural science long before the zero was invented or evolution was a theory. Since '69 he has sweltered in the field of computers, where he has now been so long that he is a walking IT textbook.
He is an avid reader and a student of American history with a special interest in American presidents. He feels strongly that all authority comes from God and that each president is divinely appointed with specific goals and timing. His goal is to determine what God’s plan was and is for each of them.
Teaching is his passion and he currently uses this gift in various classes in his church. He is a member of the 2007 Centurion class and plans on utilizing this valuable knowledge to help bring salt and light to Southern Wisconsin.
Dennis is married to Judy, the love of his life, and has three stepchildren and three grandchildren. He enjoys spending as much time with them as he can.
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Diane Singer
Diane is a wife, mother, and grandmother who has been teaching English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville since 1987. She’s been an avid reader of Chuck Colson’s books for many years, and is a graduate of the 2004 Centurion class. Diane has a passion for short-term missions, having made multiple trips to Russia, Belarus, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Guinea. She and her husband, Lee, are members of First Baptist Church in Huntsville, where Diane teaches an Explore the Bible class and leads small group classes on special topics, such as Celtic Christianity, William Wilberforce, C. S. Lewis, and prayer. She also serves on several mission and ministry-related committees.
When family, church, and work aren't consuming her time, she enjoys reading, swimming, going to movies, and scuba diving with her husband and children. Needless to say, she has a full, happy, and blessed life thanks to God’s grace.
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Jason Bruce
Jason is the program specialist for BreakPoint. A Filipino by birth, his name was officially pronounced "Bru'se" (sounds better in French) in the Philippines, then evolved to "Bruce" when he moved to the United States in 2000. He enjoys what most Filipinos in America enjoy—karaoke—and considers his 10,000-song karaoke microphone his most cherished material possession to date. His alma maters are the University of the Philippines and Georgetown University. He has a gorgeous wife and is a proud dad to two children. He's actively involved in Christian worldview, a.k.a values education, in the Philippines through Lambat Ministries and his personal blog, The Living Rice.
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Kathryn Wiley
Kathryn Wiley is a writer with Justice Fellowship. After years of toil in the bowels of public affairs offices, she appreciates the camaraderie of the JF team and also help with spelling. Kathryn loves fiction and poetry, gardens, her husband, and living near the Blue Ridge Mountains in the great state of Virginia.
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Kim I. Moreland
Kim serves as project manager and research associate for the Wilberforce Forum. She also contributes articles for the Breakpoint Online website and has worked with award-winning author Jonathan Aitken on his biography of Charles Colson. (Before her marriage, she wrote under the name Kim Robbins.) Kim loves ballroom dancing, and her ambition is to become a world-class traveler.
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Pat Nolan
Pat Nolan is the old man of the BreakPoint blog, having been born at midpoint in the last century, when Harry Truman was President. He is the sixth of nine children and grew up on Crenshaw Blvd., the third generation of his family to live in that neighborhood. Pat and his brothers and sisters performed Irish dancing as the Nine Dancing Nolans, and they stole the show at the International Folk Dance Festival, according to the LA Examiner. Pat was the envy of every kid in the neighborhood when he was able to be at Disneyland on opening day in 1955. He proudly graduated from USC, and rode as their mascot, Tommy Trojan, in the 1974 Rose Parade.
He is a recovering politician, having served for 15 years in the California State Assembly, where he was Republican Leader from ’84-‘88. He also became known as #06833-097 during the two years he spent as an inmate in federal prison. Pat is married to Gail, who is blind to his faults and laughs at his jokes. They have three children, two daughters in college, and a son who is a sophomore in high school. Because of their investment in their kids’ education, Pat and Gail have told their children that they will always be welcome at the doublewide. Pat heads up Justice Fellowship, the criminal justice reform arm of Prison Fellowship, and is passionate about bringing the Christian principles of restorative justice to our criminal justice system.
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Regis Nicoll
Regis is a Centurion of the Wilberforce Forum and a freelance writer whose work regularly appears on BreakPoint Online, Crosswalk, and the Crux Project, among other publications. When not writing, Regis may be found executing flams and paradiddles on his drum kit, watching film noir while munching cheese nachos, or sipping coffee his wife says is too expensive. You can reach out and touch him at centurion51@aol.com.
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Roberto Rivera y Carlo
Roberto is the official liaison from the Pegasus Galaxy. His mission is to both observe and explain the seemingly random and irrational things that the Tauri do and think to their more evolved kin across the universe.
He doesn’t get home very often since that draining of the Zero Point Module restricts Stargate traffic to priority missions only. In the meanwhile, he enjoys such advanced Tauri pursuits as baseball, HDTV, and Earth Jazz and Classical on high-resolution audio.
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Shane Morris
Born and raised in Tampa, Florida, Shane Morris spent his formative years building sandcastles, listening to Adventures in Odyssey, and learning everything there was to know about dinosaurs. After such an engaging start to life, he was surprised to find primary education just as enjoyable, and studied as a homeschooler through graduation.
As the oldest of five siblings, Shane has always loved to make friends, compete, and argue. From the time he accepted Christ at an early age, he has used these passions to communicate his faith and stand on the authority of God’s Word.
After spending his high school years studying debate, politics, history, ancient languages (and occasionally, of course, dinosaurs), he set to work earning college credit through CLEP exams and traveling the country in his spare time.
Shane is now a part-time employee at BreakPoint, putting his passions to work as part of the web team and by writing for The Point radio program. He hopes to use his education to communicate biblical truth to believers (especially youth) both inside the church and out.
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Stephen Reed
Stephen is from the other Virginia, which makes him a Mountaineer football fan. A graduate of WVU and Emory University, he enjoyed a five-year stint in talk radio in Charleston, W.Va., serving as a "watchdog" over state government antics there. Previous to his talk radio career, he served as West Virginia's deputy secretary of state.
Stephen's wife, Leni, is originally from Indonesia, which accounts for his love of Sumatran coffee. While they hope children are in the offing, for now they have the friendliest dog in the world, Veronica the Border Collie Mix.
Stephen enjoys conversations touching on theology, philosophy, pop culture (especially films), and all things related to C.S. Lewis and Arthurian legend. He serves as Prison Fellowship’s grants and foundations specialist.
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Steve Rempe
A transplanted Buckeye now living in the fertile soil of northern Virginia, Steve serves as the web editor for Prison Fellowship's website. The oldest of four boys, Steve has a working knowledge of emergency rooms in several states, and maintains a extensive list of "crazy things I did as a child that could've killed me that my kids will never be allowed to attempt." Wisely, he married Beth Friedrich, RN, in 2008. The couple is hoping their first visit to a hospital as husband and wife will be for the birth of their first child in July 2009. Steve is a proud alum of Miami University (the one in Ohio, not to be confused with the school in Florida) and Regent University (the one in Virginia, not to be confused with the school in British Columbia). Steve has had articles published in Crisis magazine and Faith & Freedom, and has been quoted in both The New York Times and ESPN: The Magazine (the latter being the more impressive to Steve's brothers).
When not receiving medical attention, Steve likes to cook, read, and exercise, and maintains an inexplicable fondness for the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Travis McSherley
A native of the cornfields and basketball courts of Indiana, Travis serves as editor of BreakPoint Online. His cultural musings have also appeared on blogs at Townhall.com, the Independent Women's Forum, and Filling up Space.
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