What can to breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth? Today on breakpoint, a very special guest, Emily Coulson.

50 years ago today, my dad went to prison. I was only 15 at the time having just

endured a year or more of the chaos of Watergate, the whirlwind of reporters,

congressional hearings, criminal trials, and as a teenager having a dad who was

hated by so many.

My dad is Chuck Olson.

It's surreal to think back on that time. The day my dad went to

prison was one of the darkest days of my life. It was a national, even international

story of political intrigue, but for me it was personal.

I felt like I was losing my dad. As I wrote in a recent article,

remembering one of my visits with My Dad in Prison, the rest of the world was still spinning outside.

Fathers were coming home from work, families were gathering around dinner tables, but for us life had stopped.

We could not have been more alone than in that moment.

But something else had happened to at the time would turn out to be far more consequential than Watergate or its aftermath.

My dad visited the home of Tom Phillips,

president of the Raytheon Company, and a former legal client.

Tom had, as my dad described years later, become a Christian and he seemed so different.

That night, Tom read to my dad a chapter for mere Christianity, later in tears in Tom's driveway.

My dad cried out to Jesus.

He was never the same again.

Looking back, we can see Romans 828, though too often thrown around

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