Dorothy Day and Charles Colson experience their respective religious
             awakenings in substantially different ways. Day, a bohemian and social
             activist prior to her conversion, sees her post-conversion life as infused
             with a deeper meaning and understanding that comes from a knowledge of God
             and human tradition. Colson, who was an arguably unethical and self-
             centered individual prior to his conversion, sees his post-conversion life
             as living in subservience to the will of God, and that loving other
             individuals and God is a fundamental part of this obedience to God's will.
             Charles Colson is a former Nixon aid who went to jail for his
             involvement in the Watergate scandal, and an influential born-again
             Christian who founded the Christian Prison Fellowship foundation. Colson
             converted to Christianity while facing jail for his part in the illegal
             wiretapping of Democratic headquarters. After his release from jail, he
             became actively involved in Christian ministry for prisoners, and founded
             the Prison Fellowship Ministries, which provides assistance to prisoners,
             victims of crime, families, and ex-cons. Colson has written many books,
             including the influential Loving God (TownHall.com).
             Dorothy Day was the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, and had
             a life-long commitment to social causes like nonviolence, racial justice,
             peace, and the causes of the poor and disadvantaged. In her youth, Day was
             a liberal radical young journalist living in Greenwich village in the
             1920's, and in a common-law marriage. Her conversion to Catholicism
             brought about profound changed in her life, including a focus on the lives
             of others, the end of her common-law marriage, and the end of her lifestyle
             as a young journalist in New York. Day passed away in 1980 (Forest).
             After conversion, Day thought of her after-conversion life as
             fundamentally more richly textured, and with a deep...