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- <text id=93TT1044>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Colson's Triumph
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- SOCIETY
- Colson's Triumph
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A notorious Watergate figure wins $1 million for his religious
- work
- </p>
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- <p> The object of his faith used to be Richard Nixon. But prison,
- where he was sent for his role in the Watergate scandal, triggered
- a religious conversion in former White House aide Charles Colson.
- "Born again," Colson transformed his zeal for Republican politics
- (he once said he would walk over his own grandmother for Nixon)
- into a devotion to Jesus. He founded the Prison Fellowship,
- an organization designed to change the lives of convicts through
- a combination of practical assistance and relentless evangelism.
- Colson's two decades of commitment have worn down most of the
- skeptics who questioned the sincerity of his conversion, and
- last week he was awarded the most lucrative religious prize
- on the face of the earth: the Templeton Prize for Progress in
- Religion, which carries a $1 million-plus award, previously
- granted to Mother Teresa and Billy Graham. "Twenty years later,"
- says Colson, "I see how God has used my life. Sometimes the
- greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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