Anne Morse

Anne Morse is a senior writer at the Wilberforce Forum in Reston, VA, as well as senior writer for Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries daily radio program BreakPoint.[1] She has been writing and editing the BreakPoint commentaries and columns with Colson since 1993, and, in 1997, she and Colson "co-authored an award-winning collection of BreakPoint commentaries called Burden of Truth."

Anne is a "frequent contributor" to James Dobson's Focus on the Family publication Citizen Magazine, Marvin Olasky's World Magazine, and "other online outlets including Boundless Webzine, Beliefnet, and Regeneration Quarterly. Her review of Christina Hoff Sommers’s book, The War Against Boys, was recently given a first place Evangelical Press Association Award in the category of critical review.

"Anne is a regular participant in roundtable discussions at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. She holds memberships in the Independent Women’s Forum and the White House Writers Group, a Washington public relations firm."

Morse is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University.

Source: Prison Fellowship Ministries website.

Anne Morse is known to have participated in one roundtable with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is identified as "Anne Morse of BreakPoint Radio": "Trustbusters," January 3, 2003.

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Bush Booster

In the February 2002, "A family man in the White House," Morse wrote for Conservatism magazine: [2]

"The best thing about President Bush's family policy is that he doesn't have an office in the West Wing labelled 'Office of Family Policy' manned by a scary-looking blonde who thinks 'it takes a village' (that is, a gang of Washington feminists) to raise other people's children. Instead, Bush's policy towards American families is found in the warp and woof of programs not specifically labelled 'family policy', but which do a great deal to actually help them. The tax relief we received last summer (a $600 check for joint filers) meant THIS family could pay off bills and buy school clothes for our kids - which is also how most other Americans say they spent the money. The passage of Bush's education reform package - although badly weakened by Democrats - is a weapon in the hands of poor families to force their children's appalling schools to improve - or else.

"Perhaps best of all, since September 11, 2001, the president has given our kids a chance to see how a Real Man behaves in the Oval Office when a crisis strikes: with courage and compassion, grace and guts."

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Ghostwriting for Colson

• The March 2002 online edition of the History News Network reported in "Chuck Colson, Moral Leader" that:

"In a recent column published by Christianity Today Chuck Colson, the Watergate-operator-turned-Christian-reformer, went after people caught lying. Predictably, Colson reprimanded Joseph Ellis, who has now become the poster child of deceit. But Colson also expressed disgust with Stephen Ambrose, whom he lumped in with the liars. Ambrose, Colson observed, 'plagiarized portions of other historians' works and -- notwithstanding his public apology -- seemed hardly disturbed by the resulting controversy.' Why, Colson wondered, is there such an epidemic of deceit?

"Perhaps he should interview himself. According to the Los Angeles Times Colson did not write the column, though it carried his byline and photo. His assistant, Anne Morse, wrote it.

"The article remains posted on Christianity Today's website. At the bottom of the article there's a section listing related links. The very first one? We swear we are not making this up: 'Ghostwriting: A Borderline Deceit?'. This editorial, first published in 1982 and then republished just this month, concludes: 'It is time for readers to be freed from the borderline deceit (and conceit) involved in ghost- and ghostly writing. The reader has the right to know that if an author's name is given, it is the true author's true name.'"

• On March 25, 2002, the garret* ("church leaders archives") posted in "Under Fire" that

"Charles Colson has come under fire for a recent column in the magazine Christianity Today. Colson wrote about what he calls the 'Post-Truth Society'. The former figure in the Watergate scandal decries rampant lying in our society. Historian Stephen Ambrose is described as 'dealing in deceit' because he took credit for the work of other historians. Both current and former employees say the problem is that Colson did not write the column. The actual author, they say, was Anne Morse, a full-time writer Colson employs." [3]

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SourceWatch Resources

• Bush administration propaganda and disinformation
• Bush administration smear campaigns
• Bush lies and deceptions
• manufactured journalism
• mucky media
• propaganda
• Rathergate: Sumner M. Redstone, George W. Bush & CBS
• religion and empire
• religion-in-prison movement

External Links

Publications

• Charles "Chuck" Colson and Anne Morse, "Burden of Truth: Defending the Truth in an Age of Unbelief" ISBN 0842301909, Tyndale Publishing House, 1998.

By Anne Morse

• Archive: Articles published by Beliefnet.
• Archive: Articles published by Boundless Webzine.
• Columns by Chuck Colson with Anne Morse in Christianity Today.
• The Veritas Forum ceased publication of re:generation Quarterly Spring 2003.[4]. Archived Anne Morse articles from the former website www.regenerator.com are available by subscription to ChristianityTodayLibrary.com.
• "View from the Axis. COVER STORY: Critics deride the 'axis of evil' rhetoric but eyewitnesses know better. In North Korea, evil only begins to describe the everyday horror of life under 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong II," World Magazine, March 1, 2002; also available on Center for Security Policy website.
• "Three Years Later: How Safe Do We Feel?," Family Security Matters, May/June 2002.
• "Fear of commitment (Immigration)," World Magazine, February 1, 2003: "Leading academics and immigration lawyers want to drop the requirement that new citizens renounce allegiance to foreign nations and pledge allegiance to the United States."
• "The Abolitionist. Fighting Modern-Day Sexual Slavery," World Magazine, March 13, 2003; reprinted by Prison Fellowship.
• "They Call It Art. The last acceptable prejudice?," National Review Online, May 30, 2003: "Princeton University has discovered an acceptable way to engage in hate speech, bigotry, and slander: Just label it 'art'.".
• Chuck Colson with Anne Morse, "Sowing Confusion. One small ruling for Texas; one giant leap into the cultural abyss," Christianity Today, October 2003. re gay marriage.
• "Christmas in Romania," National Review Online, December 23, 2003.
• "Mothers Against Tolerating Terror," Independent Women's Forum, March 4, 2004; Townhall.com, March 7, 2004.
• "The First Rathergate. The CBS anchor’s precarious relationship with the truth," National Review Online, September 15, 2004.
• Chuck Colson with Anne Morse, "The Moral Home Front. America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to Muslim terrorists," Christianity Today, October 2004.
• "Unfit & Unwelcome. What our troops think of Kerry," National Review Online, October 31, 2004.

External Links

• Chuck Colson, "The New 'Security Moms'," Townhall.com, August 25, 2003. Although Morse's name does not appear on this article, it would seem to have been written by her. See other Townhall posting by her above.
• Joseph Barillari, "Oddities at the NRO, hypersensitive hyphenateds, and reverse curmudgeonism," Joseph Barillari's Weblog, December 27, 2003: "Exhibit B: Anne Morse cheers the death of Abercrombie and Fitch’s 'pornographic' catalog. ... I must admit that I haven’t actually read a copy of the catalog. But Ms. Morse admits that she hadn’t, either. If an NR columnist can get away with speculative punditry, so can I."