Charles W. "Chuck" Colson

Charles W. "Chuck" Colson is founder and chairman of the board of Prison Fellowship, a Christian outreach ministry to the prison population of this country, as well as to ex-prisoners and crime victims. The “On Faith” panelist also is a syndicated columnist, lawyer, and author of 23 books, most recently The Good Life (2005). He served as special counsel to the late President Richard M. Nixon (1969-73). Colson served seven months of a one to three-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to a Watergate-related charge of obstruction of justice in 1974. His 1973 Christian conversion was documented in the internationally best-selling book and film, Born Again. He founded Prison Fellowship in 1976. In 1993, Colson was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion and donated the $1 million prize to Prison Fellowshipp. In the last 28 years, Colson has visited more than 600 prisons in 40 countries and, with the help of nearly 50,000 volunteers, has built Prison Fellowship into the world's largest prison outreach, serving the spiritual and practical needs of prisoners in 93 countries including the U.S. Close.