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Article: Colson's New Crusade; Confused Musings on Religion & Politics
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- December 25, 1987
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KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT
An Insider's Challenging View of Politics, Power, and the Pulpit
By Charles Colson
Morrow/Zondervan. 399 pp. $15.95.
Few ex-cons have gone straighter-straight to the microphones. In
1974, Charles Colson did time in an Alabama prison for his Watergate
crime. The year before, he announced to the nation that he had
turned from his wicked ways in servitude to Richard Nixon and had
been born again to the service of the Lord. "I felt God's hand on my
shoulder," he reported. God spoke, too: "Tell the story of one
life-yours."
Colson did. In 1976, "Born Again: What Really Happened to the
White House Hatchet Man" resulted. Apparently Colson's shoulder has
been touched again.