Colson bestows Centurion honor
on Pathway editor

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pathway Editor Don Hinkle was among 100 Christian leaders and scholars from across the nation to be commissioned a Centurion by Chuck Colson’s BreakPoint Ministry during special services here Jan. 18.

The Centurions Program is a one-year distance learning/networking program that equips Christians to think Christianly in order to apply biblical truth to all of life and to engage and shape culture out of a biblical framework. About 100 Christian leaders are selected each year to participate in the program and are trained through an intense combination of rigorous reading assignments, teleconferences, three weekend residences, worldview devotionals and a thriving online forum that supports a free-flowing exchange of ideas and experiences.

Counted among the Centurion faculty is the renown Colson along with Prison Fellowship President and former Virginia Attorney General Mark Early; author and theologian Cornelius Plantinga; WORLD magazine publisher Joel Belz; author Ken Boa; Art Lindsley, senior fellow of the C. S. Lewis Institute; Princeton University law professor Robert George; University of Georgia chemistry professor Henry “Fritz” Schaefer, theologian T. M. Moore of Prison Fellowship and Glenn Sunshine, author and Reformation historian at Central Connecticut State University.

Hinkle was nominated by his pastor, Monte Shinkle of Concord Baptist Church, Jefferson City; Richard “Dick” Bott, founder, Bott Radio Network and Scott Lamb, a former Missouri pastor who is now a PhD. candidate and chief research assistant to R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

Once commissioned, Centurions have pledged to go out and put their training into action by teaching others and living out their faith. Hinkle’s final project was the publishing of a four-part series on a Christian worldview in The Pathway. One has gained national attention and was republished on the website of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and by a prominent Chicago-based ministry. Hinkle, 54, has been the editor of The Pathway since the publication’s creation in June 2002.