A Quiet Classroom Prayer

Chuck Colson, on the day he was sentenced

President Nixon and Colson

Colson pled guilty to obstructing justice by seeking to defame Daniel Ellsberg, who illegally copied and leaked a report commonly known as the Pentagon Papers. According to Colson, the leaks severely impaired the Nixon administration’s negotiations to end the Vietnam War.

FPC Montgomery, where this story takes place.

Colson wrote about his conversion in the book Born Again.