Colson to speak at Samford

Chuck Colson, founder of the Prison Fellowship and former aide to President Richard Nixon, will speak July 17 at Samford University in Birmingham.

An Evening With Chuck Colson will present a commentary on today’s culture from a Christian worldview. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in Wright Center Concert Hall.

Colson founded the Prison Fellowship in 1976 after serving a prison sentence for obstruction of justice in the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. The fellowship is the world’s largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families, ministering in 117 countries.

Colson, an attorney, served as special counsel to Nixon from 1969 to 1973. He became a Christian in 1973, the same year he served seven months in Maxwell Federal Prison in Montgomery. In 1991, he launched BreakPoint, a nationwide radio commentary that provides a Christian perspective on today’s news and trends. (SU)