Costly grace
Subtitle: an evangelical minister's rediscovery of faith, hope and love
By: Robert Schenck
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780062687937
Subjects: Christian biography; Evangelicalism; Christianity and politics; Clergy; Biography
Description: The author recalls his life as a controversial Washington, D.C. evangelical minister and spiritual advisor to America's political class. He begins with his conversion from Judaism to born-again Christianity, and then finding his calling in public ministry. He chronicles his years as an activist leader of the most extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement, brazenly mixing ministry with Republican political activism. Finally he reflects on his unconscious abandonment of Christian principles in the face of fame and influence, and ultimately his return to the lessons Jesus imparted. Today Schenck works to liberate the evangelical community from a politicized gospel, urging partisan conservatives to move beyond social battles and forsake the politics of hate, fear, and violence.
Table of contents: title: Part I: My first conversion. Coming to Jesus ; Faith of our fathers ; End times ; Pastor and father ; Missionary evangelist ; Los pepenadores ; Our president, our prophet ; FaithWalk; title: Part II. My second conversion. Joining the movement ; Spring of life ; Conventions and courtrooms ; "A mighty threshing instrument" ; A reprieve and a draconian sentence ; Planting and replanting a church ; Faith and action ; Rev. Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western N.Y. ; Christmas with the Clintons ; Family matters ; Murder and impeachment ; The providential election ; 9/11 ; A friend in the White House; title: Part III: My third conversion. Amish grace ; Family journeys ; Obama and hope ; My pilgrimage ; Reentry ; Guns ; The armor of light ; Donald Trump and the moral collapse of American evangelicalism ; Holy Week, 2017.