Excerpt: 'So to ask the obvious question: What is so wrong with a program that does so much good? According to the court, because InnerChange is pervasively sectarian, because it indoctrinates inmates with biblical teaching, because it seeks to convert participants to faith in Jesus Christ, because it virtually turns Unit E into an evangelical church, because it gives preferential treatment to participants, and because it entangles the state in religious matters, it effectively establishes Christianity in the Iowa prison system, and is therefore unconstitutional.'
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Many of these are now published in 'My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture', 2002, and 'He Speaks to Me Everywhere', 2004, both by Philip Graham Ryken, P&R Publishing.
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Philip Graham Ryken is Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he has preached since 1995. He was educated at Wheaton College (IL), Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) and the University of Oxford (UK), from which he received his doctorate in...
