A LIVE Conversation with CHUCK COLSON and John Stonestreet…RESTORING VIRTUE: Making Hard Decisions in a Relativist Culture.
One of the true highlights of the 2011 MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati was the Saturday conversation with Chuck Colson and John Stonestreet that was attended by a couple thousand people. Accordingly, we are both honored and excited to again welcome the participation of CHUCK COLSON on Saturday of each of the SouthEast, MidSouth, MidWest, and NorthEast – 2012 Great Homeschool Conventions with a LIVE Conversation led by John Stonestreet as Chuck Colson again joins LIVE via SKYPE!
Click Here to WATCH a short video clip that includes Chuck Colson, Joni Eareckson Tada, Brit Hume, Alveda King & others CHUCK COLSON (www.ColsonCenter.org)
Almost 25 years ago, Charles W. Colson was not thinking about reaching out to prison inmates or reforming the U.S. penal system. In fact, this aide to President Richard Nixon was “incapable of humanitarian thought,” according to the media of the mid-1970s.
Colson was known as the White House “hatchet man,” a man feared by even the most powerful politicos during his four years of service to President Nixon.
When news of Colson’s conversion to Christianity leaked to the press in 1973, the Boston Globe reported, “If Mr. Colson can repent of his sins, there just has to be hope for everybody.”
Colson would agree. He admits he was guilty of political “dirty tricks” and willing to do almost anything for the cause of his president and his party.
In 1974, Colson entered a plea of guilty to Watergate-related charges;although not implicated in the Watergate burglary, he voluntarily pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Daniel Ellsberg Case.
He entered Alabama’s Maxwell Prison in 1974 as a new Christian and as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges. He served seven months of a one-to-three year sentence.
In 1976, Colson founded Prison Fellowship Ministries (Now PFM), which, in collaboration with churches of all confessions and denominations, has become the world’s largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families.
Increasingly, Colson sensed God’s calling to comment on the culture through the written and spoken word. He has written 20 books, which have collectively sold more than five million copies. His autobiographical book Born Again was one of the nation’s best-selling books of all genres in 1976 and was made into a feature-length film.
Now, Charles Colson turns his heart and mind to developing a Christian worldview, and to training a new generation of leaders to renew the church and revitalize the culture. “The whole object of the movement is to penetrate culture. The frontal assault over the last several years has proven inadequate. What we must do now is be salt and light, rubbed into the culture so to speak, in such a way that the people and institutions around us slowly begin to understand that they have embraced the Lie. Our job is to expose the Lie and replace it with the Truth of a biblical understanding of all of reality.” The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview is the cornerstone of that movement.
Despite his work critiquing the culture, Colson’s heart is ever with the prisoner. He has clearly never forgotten the promise he made to his fellow inmates during his brief stay in prison: that he would “never forget those behind bars.”
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