Chuck Colson | |
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| Director of theOffice of Public Liaison | |
| In office July 9, 1970 – March 10, 1973 | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | William Baroody |
| White House Counsel | |
| In office November 6, 1969 – July 9, 1970 | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | John Ehrlichman |
| Succeeded by | John Dean |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Charles Wendell Colson (1931-10-16)October 16, 1931 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | April 21, 2012(2012-04-21) (aged 80) Falls Church, Virginia, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Brown University (BA) George Washington University (JD) |
Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to asChuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served asSpecial Counsel toPresidentRichard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of theWatergate scandal, for being named as one of theWatergate Seven and also for pleading guilty toobstruction of justice for attempting to defamePentagon Papers defendantDaniel Ellsberg.[1] In 1974, Colson served seven months in the federalMaxwell Prison inAlabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.[2]
His mid-life religious conversion sparked a radical life change that led to the founding of his non-profit ministryPrison Fellowship and, three years later,Prison Fellowship International, to a focus onChristian worldview teaching and training around the world. Colson was also a public speaker and the author of more than 30 books.[3] He was the founder and chairman of The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, which is a research, study, and networking center for growing in aChristian worldview, and which produces Colson's daily radio commentary, BreakPoint, heard on more than 1,400 outlets across the United States currently presented by John Stonestreet.[4][5]
Colson was a principal signer of the 1994Evangelicals and Catholics Together ecumenical document signed by leadingEvangelical Protestants andRoman Catholic leaders in the United States.
Colson received 15honorary doctorates and in 1993 was awarded theTempleton Prize for Progress in Religion, the world's largest annual award (over US$1 million) in the field of religion, given to a person who "has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension". He donated the prize to further the work of Prison Fellowship, as he did all his speaking fees and royalties. In 2008, he was awarded thePresidential Citizens Medal by PresidentGeorge W. Bush.
Charles Wendell Colson was born on October 16, 1931, inBoston, the son of Inez "Dizzy" (née Ducrow) and Wendell Ball Colson.[6] He was ofSwedish andBritish descent.[7]
In his youth, Colson had seen the charitable works of his parents. His mother cooked meals for the hungry during the Depression and his father donated his legal services to the United Prison Association of New England.
DuringWorld War II, Colson organized fund-raising campaigns in his school for the war effort that raised enough money to buy aJeep for thearmy.[8] In 1948, he volunteered in the campaign to re-elect thegovernor of Massachusetts,Robert Bradford.
After turning down a full scholarship toHarvard University and attendingBrowne & Nichols School inCambridge in 1949, he earned his AB, with honors, in history fromBrown University in 1953, and hisJ.D., with honors, fromGeorge Washington University Law School in 1959. At Brown, he was a member ofBeta Theta Pi.
Colson's first marriage was to Nancy Billings in 1953; they have three children, Wendell Ball II (born 1954), Christian Billings (1956), and Emily Ann (1958). After some years of separation, the marriage ended in divorce in January 1964. He married Patricia Ann Hughes on April 4, 1964.
Colson served in theUnited States Marine Corps from 1953 to 1955, reaching the rank ofcaptain. From 1955 to 1956, he was the assistant to theAssistant Secretary of the Navy (Material). He worked on the successful 1960 campaign ofLeverett Saltonstall (U.S. Republican Party for theU.S. Senate) and was his administrative assistant from 1956 to 1961. In 1961 Colson founded thelaw firm of Colson & Morin, which swiftly grew to a Boston andWashington, D.C. presence with the addition of formerU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairmanEdward Gadsby and formerRaytheon Company general counsel Paul Hannah. Colson and Morin shortened the name to Gadsby & Hannah in late 1967. Colson left the firm to join theRichard Nixon administration in January 1969.
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In 1968, Colson served as counsel toRepublican presidential candidateRichard Nixon's Key Issues Committee.[9] On November 6, 1969, Colson was appointed asSpecial Counsel to President Nixon.[9]
Colson was responsible for inviting influential private special interest groups into theWhite House policy-making process and winning their support on specific issues. His office served as the President's political communications liaison withorganized labor, veterans, farmers, conservationists, industrial organizations, citizen groups, and almost any organized lobbying group whose objectives were compatible with the Administration's. Colson's staff broadened theWhite House lines of communication with organized constituencies by arranging presidential meetings and sending White House news releases of interest to the groups.[9]
In addition to his liaison and political duties, Colson's responsibilities included performing special assignments for the president, such as drafting legal briefs on particular issues, reviewing presidential appointments, and suggesting names for White House guest lists. His work also included majorlobbying efforts on such issues as construction of anantiballistic missile system, the president'sVietnamization program, and the administration's revenue-sharing proposal.[9]
Slate magazine writerDavid Plotz described Colson as Nixon's "hard man, the 'evil genius' of an evil administration".[10] Colson has written that he was "valuable to the President... because I was willing... to be ruthless in getting things done".[11] Nixon'sWhite House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman described Colson as being the president's "hit man".[12][13]
Colson authored the 1971 memo listing Nixon's major political opponents, later known asNixon's enemies list. A quip that "Colson would walk over his own grandmother if necessary" mutated into claims in news stories that Colson had boasted that he would run over his own grandmother to re-elect Nixon.[11] In a conversation on February 13, 1973, Colson told Nixon that he had always had "a little prejudice".[14][clarification needed]
On May 4, 1970, four students were shot dead atKent State University inOhio while protesting theVietnam War and theincursion into Cambodia.[15] As a show of sympathy for the dead students, MayorJohn Lindsay ordered all flags atNew York City Hall to be flown at half-mast that same day.
A transcription made of a White House tape recording dated May 5, 1971,[16][17] documents that the planning phase of theHard Hat Riot took place in the White HouseOval Office. Colson is heard successfully instigating severalNew York StateAFL–CIO union leaders into organizing an attack against student protesters in New York. The officials armed about 200 construction workers inLower Manhattan with lengths of steelre-bar which they, along with their hard hats, proceeded to use against about 1,000 high school and college students protesting the Vietnam War and theKent State shootings. The initial attack was near the intersection ofWall Street andBroad Street, but the riot soon spread toNew York City Hall and lasted a little longer than two hours. More than 70 people were injured, including four policemen. Six people were arrested.[10][18]
Two weeks after the Hard Hat Riot, Colson arranged a White House ceremony honoring the union leader most responsible for the attack,Peter J. Brennan, president of the Building and Construction Trades local forNew York City. Brennan was later appointedU.S. Secretary of Labor and served under Presidents Nixon andGerald Ford.[19]
Colson also proposed firebombing theBrookings Institution and stealing politically damaging documents while firefighters put out the fire.[20][21][22]
In his memoir,E. Howard Hunt reports that on the day after the attempted assassination ofGeorge Wallace byArthur Bremer, he received a call from Colson asking him to break into Bremer's apartment and plant "leftist literature to connect him to the Democrats". Hunt recalls that he was highly skeptical of the plan due to the apartment being guarded by the FBI, but due to Colson's insistence, investigated the feasibility of it anyway.[23]
In 1972, on Colson's orders, Hunt andG. Gordon Liddy were part of an assassination plot targeting journalistJack Anderson.[24] Nixon disliked Anderson because Anderson published a1960 election-eve story about a secret loan fromHoward Hughes to Nixon's brother,[25] which Nixon believed was a factor in his election defeat toJohn F. Kennedy. Hunt and Liddy met with a CIA operative and discussed methods of assassinating Anderson, which included covering Anderson's car steering wheel withLSD to drug him and cause a fatal accident,[26] poisoning his aspirin bottle, and staging a fatal robbery. The assassination plot never materialized because Hunt and Liddy were arrested for their involvement in the Watergate scandal later that year.
Colson's voice, from archives of April 1969, is heard in the 2004 movieGoing Upriver deprecating the anti-war efforts ofJohn Kerry. Colson's orders were to "destroy the youngdemagogue before he becomes anotherRalph Nader."[27][28] In a phone conversation with Nixon on April 28, 1971, Colson said, "This fellow Kerry that they had on last week... He turns out to be really quite a phony."[27][28]
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Colson attended some meetings of theCommittee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP). However, he and the White House Staff "had come to regard the Committee to Re-elect the President as a rival organization."[29] When Colson had taken charge of the Office of Communications, he was offered but rejectedJeb Magruder as a senior staffer, and Magruder was instead sent over to CRP, as
"At least he can't do any harm there" replied Colson. It was one of his less prescient judgements. Unknown to Colson and most other White House personnel, Magruder had been doing enormous harm by authorizing a series ofJames Bond-style clandestine operations against the Democrats.[30]
At a CRP meeting on March 21, 1971, it was agreed to spend US$250,000 on "intelligence gathering" on theDemocratic Party.[31] Colson andJohn Ehrlichman had recruitedE. Howard Hunt as a White House consultant for $100 per day ($776 in 2024 dollars).[32] Though Hunt never worked directly for Colson, he did several odd jobs for Colson's office prior to working forEgil "Bud" Krogh, head of theWhite House Special Operations Unit (the so-called "Plumbers"),[33] which had been organized to stopleaks in the Nixon administration. Hunt teamed withG. Gordon Liddy, and the two headed the Plumbers' attempted burglary ofPentagon Papers-leakerDaniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in Los Angeles in September 1971. The Pentagon Papers were a collection of military documents comprising an exhaustive study of the United States' involvement in theVietnam War. Their publication helped increase opposition to the war. Colson hoped that revelations about Ellsberg could be used to discredit theanti-Vietnam War cause. Colson admitted to leaking information from Ellsberg's confidentialFBI file to the press, but denied organizing Hunt's burglary of Ellsberg's office.[11] In his 2005 bookThe Good Life,[34] Colson expressed regret for attempting to cover up the incident.
Although not discovered until several years after Nixon had resigned and Colson had finished serving his prison term, the transcript of a White House conversation between Nixon and Colson tape-recorded on June 20, 1972, has denials from both men of the White House's involvement in the break-in. Hunt had been off the payroll for three months. Colson asks, "Do they think I'm that dumb?" Nixon comments that "we have got to have lawyers smart enough to have our people de-, delay (unintelligible) avoiding--depositions, of course, uh, are one possibility. We've got –I think it would be a quite the thing for the judge to call in Mitchell and have a deposition in the middle of the campaign, don't you?" to which Colson responds that he would welcome a deposition because "I'm not –, because nobody, everybody's completely out of it."[35]
On March 10, 1973, 17 months before Nixon's resignation, Colson resigned from the White House to return to the private practice of law, as Senior Partner at the law firm of Colson and Shapiro, Washington, D.C.[36] However, Colson was retained as a special consultant by Nixon for several more months.[37]
On March 1, 1974, Colson was indicted for conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglaries.[9]
As Colson was facing arrest, his close friend Thomas L. Phillips, chairman of the board ofRaytheon Company, gave him a copy ofMere Christianity byC. S. Lewis; after reading it, Colson became anevangelical Christian.
Colson then joined a prayer group led byDouglas Coe and including Democratic SenatorHarold Hughes, Republican congressmanAl Quie and Democratic congressmanGraham B. Purcell, Jr. When news of the conversion emerged much later, several U.S. newspapers, as well asNewsweek,The Village Voice,[38] andTime ridiculed the conversion, claiming that it was a ploy to reduce his sentence.[39] In his 1975 memoirBorn Again,[40] Colson noted that a few writers published sympathetic stories, as in the case of a widely reprintedUPI article, "From Watergate to Inner Peace."[41]
After taking theFifth Amendment on the advice of his lawyers during early testimony, Colson found himself torn between his convictions as a Christian and his desire to avoid conviction on charges of which he believed himself innocent. After prayer and consultation with his fellowship group, Colson approached his lawyers and suggested a plea of guilty to a different criminal charge of which he did consider himself to be culpable.[42][43][44]
After days of negotiation with WatergateSpecial ProsecutorLeon Jaworski and Watergate Trial JudgeGerhard Gesell, Colson pleaded guilty toobstruction of justice on the basis of having attempted to defame Ellsberg's character in the build-up to the trial in order to influence the jury against him. JournalistCarl Rowan commented in a column of June 10, 1974, that the guilty plea came "at a time when the judge was making noises about dismissing the charges against him", and speculated that Colson was preparing to reveal highly damaging information against Nixon,[45] an expectation shared by columnistClark Mollenhoff; Mollenhoff even went so far as to suggest that for Colsonnot to become a "devastating witness" would cast doubt on the sincerity of his conversion.[46] On June 21, 1974, Colson was given a one-to- three-year sentence and fined $5,000.[9][47] He was subsequentlydisbarred in theDistrict of Columbia, with the expectation of his also being prohibited from using his licenses from Virginia and Massachusetts.[48][49]
Colson served seven months inMaxwell Correctional Facility inAlabama,[50]—with brief stints at a facility on theFort Holabird grounds when needed as a trial witness—[51][52] entering prison on July 9, 1974,[53] and being released early, on January 31, 1975, by the sentencing judge because of family problems.[52][54] At the time that Gesell ordered his release, Colson was one of the last of the Watergate defendants still in jail: onlyGordon Liddy was still incarcerated.Egil Krogh had served his sentence and been released before Colson entered jail, whileJohn Dean,Jeb Magruder, andHerb Kalmbach had been released earlier in January 1975 byJudge John Sirica.[52] Although Gesell declined to name the "family problems" prompting the release,[52] Colson wrote in his 1976 memoir that his son Chris, angry over his father's imprisonment and looking to replace his broken car, had bought $150 worth ofmarijuana in hopes of selling it at a profit, and had been arrested inSouth Carolina, where he was in college.[55] The state later dropped the charges.[49]
Born Again, Colson's personal memoir reflecting on his religious conversion and prison term, was made intoa 1978 dramatic film starringDean Jones as Colson,Anne Francis as his wife Patty, andHarold Hughes as himself. ActorKevin Dunn portrayed Colson in the 1995 movieNixon.
While in prison, Colson had become increasingly aware of what he saw as injustices done to prisoners and incarcerates and shortcomings in their rehabilitation; he also had the opportunity, during a three-day furlough to attend his father's funeral, to pore over his father's papers and discover the two shared an interest in prison reform. He became convinced that he was being called by God to develop a ministry to prisoners with an emphasis in promoting changes in the justice system.[citation needed]
After his release from prison, Colson foundedPrison Fellowship in 1976, which today is "the nation's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families".[56][57] Colson worked to promote prisoner rehabilitation and reform of the prison system in the United States, citing his disdain for what he called the "lock 'em and leave 'em" warehousing approach to criminal justice. He helped to create prisons whose populations come from inmates who choose to participate infaith-based programs.
In 1979, Colson foundedPrison Fellowship International to extend his prison outreach outside the United States. Now in 120 countries, Prison Fellowship International is the largest, most extensive association of national Christian ministries working within the criminal justice field, working to proclaim the Gospel worldwide and alleviate the suffering of prisoners and their families. In 1983,Prison Fellowship International received special consultative status with theEconomic and Social Council of the United Nations. During this time, Colson also founded Justice Fellowship, using his influence in conservative political circles to push for bipartisan, legislative reforms in the U.S. criminal justice system.[58]
On June 18, 2003, Colson was invited byPresidentGeorge W. Bush to theWhite House to present results of a scientific study on thefaith-based initiative, InnerChange, at theCarol Vance Unit (originally named the Jester II Unit) prison facility of theTexas Department of Criminal Justice inFort Bend County, Texas. Colson led a small group that included Byron Johnson of theUniversity of Pennsylvania, who was the principal researcher of the InnerChange study, a few staff members ofPrison Fellowship and three InnerChange graduates to the meeting. In the presentation, Johnson explained that 171 participants in the InnerChange program were compared to a matched group of 1,754 inmates from the prison's general population. The study found that only 8 percent of InnerChange graduates, as opposed to 20.3 percent of inmates in the matched comparison group, became offenders again in a two-year period. In other words, the recidivism rate was cut by almost two-thirds for those who complete the faith-based program. Those who are dismissed for disciplinary reasons or who drop out voluntarily, or those who are paroled before completion, have a comparable rate of rearrest and incarceration.[59][60] The commonly-reported results from the study have been strongly criticized for selecting only participants who were unlikely to be rearrested (especially those who were successfully placed in post-prison jobs), and when considering all of the InnerChange study participants, their recidivism rate (24.3%) was worse than the control group (20.3%).[61][62]
Colson maintained a variety of media channels which discuss contemporary issues from anevangelical Christian worldview. In hisChristianity Today columns, for example, Colson opposedsame-sex marriage,[63] and argued thatDarwinism is used to attack Christianity.[64] He also argued against evolution and in favor ofintelligent design,[65] asserting that Darwinism led to forced sterilizations byeugenicists.[66]
Colson was an outspoken critic ofpostmodernism, believing that as a cultural worldview, it is incompatible with the Christian tradition. He debated prominentpost-evangelicals, such asBrian McLaren, on the best response for the evangelical church in dealing with the postmodern cultural shift. Colson, however, came alongside thecreation care movement when endorsing Christian environmentalist authorNancy Sleeth'sGo Green, Save Green: A Simple Guide to Saving Time, Money, and God's Green Earth. In the early 1980s, Colson was invited to New York byDavid Frost's variety program onNBC for an open debate withMadalyn Murray O'Hair, theatheist who, in 1963, brought the court case (Murray v. Curlett) that eliminated official public school prayers.[67]
Colson was a member ofthe Family (also known as the Fellowship), described by prominent evangelical Christians as one of the most politically well-connected fundamentalist organizations in the US.[68] On April 4, 1991, Colson was invited to deliver a speech as part of the Distinguished Lecturer series atHarvard Business School. The speech was titledThe Problem of Ethics, where he argued that a society without a foundation of moral absolutes cannot long survive.[69]
Colson was later a principal signer of the 1994Evangelicals and Catholics Together ecumenical document signed by leading Evangelical Protestants andRoman Catholic leaders in the United States, part of a larger ecumenical rapprochement in the United States that had begun in the 1970s with Catholic-Evangelical collaboration during theGerald R. Ford Administration and in later para-church organizations such asMoral Majority founded byRev. Jerry Falwell at the urging ofFrancis Schaeffer and his sonFrank Schaeffer during theJimmy Carter administration.[70]
In November 2009, Colson was a principal writer and driving force behind an ecumenical statement known as theManhattan Declaration calling on evangelicals, Catholics andOrthodox Christians not to comply with rules and laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against their religious consciences.[71] He had previously ignited controversy withinProtestant circles for his mid-90s common-ground initiative with conservative Roman CatholicsEvangelicals and Catholics Together, which Colson wrote alongside prominent Roman CatholicRichard John Neuhaus. Colson was also a proponent of the Bible Literacy Project's curriculumThe Bible and Its Influence for public high school literature courses.[72][73] Colson has said that Protestants have a special duty to prevent anti-Catholic bigotry.[74]
In 1988, Colson became involved with theElizabeth Morgan case, visiting Morgan in jail and lobbying to change federal law in order to free her.[75]
On October 3, 2002, Colson was one of the co-signers of theLand letter sent to PresidentGeorge W. Bush. The letter was written byRichard D. Land, president of theEthics and Religious Liberty Commission of theSouthern Baptist Convention and co-signed by four prominent American evangelical Christian leaders with Colson among them. The letter outlined their theological support for ajust war in the form of a pre-emptiveinvasion of Iraq.
On June 1, 2005, Colson appeared in the national news commenting on the revelation thatW. Mark Felt wasDeep Throat.[76] Colson expressed disapproval in Felt's role in the Watergate scandal, first in the context of Felt being an FBI employee who should have known better than to disclose the results of a government investigation to the press (violating a fundamental tenet of FBI culture), and second in the context of the trust placed in him (which demanded a more active response, such as a face-to-face confrontation with the FBI director or Nixon or, had that failed, public resignation). His criticism of Felt provoked a harsh response fromBenjamin Bradlee, former executive editor ofThe Washington Post, one of only three individuals to know who Deep Throat was prior to the public disclosure, who said he was "baffled" that Colson and Liddy were "lecturing the world about public morality" considering their role in the Watergate scandal. Bradlee stated that "as far as I'm concerned they have no standing in the morality debate."[77]
Colson also supported the passage ofProposition 8. He signed his name to a full-page ad in the December 5, 2008The New York Times that objected to violence and intimidation against religious institutions and believers in the wake of the passage of Proposition 8.[78] The ad said that "violence and intimidation are always wrong, whether the victims are believers, gay people, or anyone else."[79] A dozen other religious and human rights activists from several different faiths also signed the ad, noting that they "differ on important moral and legal questions", including Proposition 8.[79]
In 1999, Colson delivered the thirteenthErasmus lecture, titled The Modernist Impasse, Christian Opportunity, sponsored byFirst Things magazine and the Institute on Religion and Public Life. In his address, Colson examined the moral and cultural fragmentation of the modern West, arguing that Christianity offers a coherent vision of truth and community capable of renewing public life. The lecture reflected his lifelong concern with faith in the public square and the moral foundations of democracy.[80]
From 1982 to 1995, Colson receivedhonorary doctorates from various colleges and universities.[50]
In 1990,The Salvation Army recognized Colson with its highest civic award, the Others Award. Previous recipients of the award includeBarbara Bush,Paul Harvey,US SenatorBob Dole, and the Meadows Foundation.[81]
In 1993, Colson was awarded theTempleton Prize for Progress in Religion, the world's largest cash gift (over $1 million), which is given each year to the one person in the world who has done the most to advance the cause of religion.[82] He donated the prize, as he did all speaking fees and royalties, to further the work ofPrison Fellowship.[citation needed]
In 1994, Colson was quoted in contemporary Christian music artistSteven Curtis Chapman's song "Heaven in the Real World" as saying:
Where is the hope? I meet millions of people who feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us, or what laws we pass, or what great things we do as a nation. Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people. And that's where our hope is in this country. And that's where our hope is in life.
In 1999, Colson co-authoredHow Now Shall We Live? withNancy Pearcey and published byTyndale House. The book was winner of theEvangelical Christian Publishers Association 2000Gold Medallion Book Award in the "Christianity and Society" category.[83] Colson had previously won the 1993 Gold Medallion award in the "Theology/Doctrine" category forThe Body co-authored with Ellen Santilli Vaughn, published by Word, Inc.[84]
On February 9, 2001, theCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) presented Colson with the Mark O. Hatfield Leadership Award at the Forum on Christian Higher Education inOrlando, Florida. The award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated uncommon leadership that reflects the values of Christian higher education. The award was established in 1997 in honor ofUS SenatorMark Hatfield, a long-time supporter of the council.[85]
In 2008, Colson was presented with thePresidential Citizens Medal by PresidentGeorge W. Bush.
In 2000,Florida GovernorJeb Bush reinstated the rights which were taken away by Colson's felony conviction, including theright to vote.[86]
On March 31, 2012, Colson underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain after he fell ill while speaking at a Christian worldview conference.[87]CBN erroneously reported on April 18, 2012, that he died with his family at his side[88] but Prison Fellowship later (12:30 am on April 19 and again at 7:02 am) pointed out that he was still alive as of that moment.[89][90]
On April 21, 2012, Colson died in the hospital "from complications resulting from a brain hemorrhage".[91][92][93][94][95] Memorial services were held at Colson's home congregation, First Baptist Church inNaples, Florida,[96] and atWashington National Cathedral. In a homily delivered before about 1,200 people gathered for the service at the Washington Cathedral,Timothy George, dean ofBeeson Divinity School, remarked that, "Chuck Colson was a Baptist but he had a passion for Christian unity that reached far beyond his own denomination."[97]
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Colson had a long list of publications and collaborations, including over 30 books which have sold more than 5 million copies.[98] He also wrote forewords for several other books.
| Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN |
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| 1976 | Born Again | Chosen Books | ISBN 978-0-8007-9459-0 |
| 1979 | Life Sentence | Chosen Books | ISBN 0-8007-8668-8 |
| 1983 | Loving God[99] | HarperPaperbacks | ISBN 0-310-47030-7 |
| 1987 | Kingdoms in Conflict[100] (with Ellen Santilli Vaughn) | William Morrow & Co | ISBN 0-688-07349-2 |
| 1989 | Against the Night: Living in the New Dark Ages[101] (with Ellen Santilli Vaughn) | Servant Publications | ISBN 0-89283-309-2 |
| 1990 | The God of Stones and Spiders | Crossway Books | ISBN 978-0891075714 |
| 1991 | Why America Doesn't Work[102] (withJack Eckerd) | Word Publishing | ISBN 0-8499-0873-6 |
| 1993 | The Body: Being Light in Darkness[103] (with Ellen Santilli Vaughn) | Word Books | ISBN 0-85009-603-0 |
| 1993 | A Dance with Deception: Revealing the truth behind the headlines[104] | Word Publishing | ISBN 0-8499-1057-9 |
| 1995 | Evangelicals and Catholics Together: Toward a Common Mission (co-edited withRichard John Neuhaus) | Thomas Nelson | ISBN 0-8499-3860-0 |
| 1995 | Gideon's Torch | Word Publishing | ISBN 0-8499-1146-X |
| 1996 | Being The Body[105] (with Ellen Santilli Vaughn) | Thomas Nelson | ISBN 0-8499-1752-2 |
| 1997 | Loving God | Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-21914-0 |
| 1998 | Burden of Truth: Defending the Truth in an Age of Unbelief | Tyndale House | ISBN 0-8423-3475-0 |
| 1999 | How Now Shall We Live[106] (withNancy Pearcey and Harold Fickett) | Tyndale House | ISBN 0-8423-1808-9 |
| 2001 | Justice That Restores | Tyndale House | ISBN 0-8423-5245-7 |
| 2002 | Your Word is Truth: A Project of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (co-edited withRichard John Neuhaus) | W. B. Eerdmans | ISBN 0802805086 |
| 2004 | The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design (withWilliam A. Dembski) | Inter Varsity Press | ISBN 0-8308-2375-1 |
| 2005 | The Good Life (with Harold Fickett) | Tyndale House | ISBN 0-8423-7749-2 |
| 2007 | God and Government | Zondervan | ISBN 978-0-310-27764-4 |
| 2008 | The Faith (with Harold Fickett) | Zondervan | ISBN 978-0-310-27603-6 |
| 2011 | The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Fearlessly in These Turbulent Times[107] | Worthy Publishing | ISBN 978-1-936034-54-3 |
(Some of these ISBNs are for recent editions of the older books.)
(This is not a complete list.)
| Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN |
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| 2006 | Wide Angle | Purpose Driven Publishing | ISBN 978-1-4228-0083-6 |
| 2011 | Doing the Right Thing DVD | Zondervan | ISBN 978-0-310-42775-9 |
| 2011 | Doing the Right Thing Participant's Guide | Zondervan | ISBN 978-0-310-42776-6 |
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