Chuck Colson Talking, Showing Slow Progress After Surgery

By Lillian Kwon
April 14, 2012

Two weeks after brain surgery, evangelical leader Chuck Colson is able to talk to family members and continues to show progress, but he remains in the Intensive Care Unit, according to the latest update.

Jim Liske, CEO of Prison Fellowship Ministries which Colson founded, said Thursday that there has not been much change in Colson's condition since last week when he gave doctors a thumbs up.

Liske assured supporters, however, that the influential evangelical "is in one of the best medical centers in the country for the issues he is facing right now." The Christian Post learned earlier that Colson is staying at a northern Virginia hospital.

Colson, 80, fell ill while speaking at the Breaking the Spiral of Silence conference on March 30 in Lansdowne, Va. the rest