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From political schemer to prison reformer: The life of Chuck Colson remembered
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By (ARA) In 1974 the Watergate scandal sent Chuck Colson, White House special counsel and self-described "hatchet man," to federal prison. After experiencing a conversion to evangelical Christianity - a metamorphosis so improbable he later joked that ...
Religion: Why Colson spent Easter in prisonsThe Republic
Chuck Colson fought for the forgottenCNN
John J. Dilulio Jr.: Chuck Colson and Second ChancesWall Street Journal
Sacramento Bee -Washington Post (blog) -National Catholic Register
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Religion: Why Colson spent Easter in prisons
The Republic
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed." This isn't the sermon that many believers hear on Easter, but it's the one that prisoners need to hear, said Chuck Colson back in 1992, ...
Chuck Colson fought for the forgottenCNN
TBN Founder Paul Crouch Sr. Pays Tribute to Charles ColsonSacramento Bee
John J. Dilulio Jr.: Chuck Colson and Second ChancesWall Street Journal
National Catholic Register -Acton Institute (blog) -Gaston Gazette
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Chuck Colson fought for the forgotten
KESQ
If positive influences, like parents, teachers, and coaches, are missing, children will gravitate to something inferior, like drugs or gangs. Colson would often illustrate this with stories of convicts leaving prison only to be handed $100 by the ...

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