Charles Colson has been a central figure in the evangelical Christian community since he shocked the Washington establishment in 1973 by revealing his new Christian commitment in the midst of the Watergate inquiry. In later years Colson would say that because he was known primarily as Nixon’s “Hatchet Man,” the declaration that “ ’I’ve been born again and given my life to Jesus Christ’ kept the political cartoonists of America clothed and fed for a solid month.” It also gave new visibility to the emerging movement of “born-again” Christians. In 1974 Colson entered a plea of guilty to Watergate...
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June 7, 1993 - Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and the Colson Center, speaks at the Acton Institute's 3rd Anniversary Dinner on the topic of the decline of American values.
