He published "Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love" in 2018.
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"Being here, in solidarity, is part of the repair work in my own soul," says Rev. Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who spent decades helping build America's Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes like the anti-abortion movement.
Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause, including what he believes was his role in delivering "the entities that are now inflicting all of this suffering on so many people." One example: Schenck's organization, Faith and Action in the Nation's Capital, created "Operation Higher Court," which trained wealthy couples as "stealth missionaries" to befriend Supreme Court justices to preserve, in his words, a Christian nation.
"So now I have to do the work of repair," he told Mother Jones digital producer Sam Van Pykeren in the icy streets of Minneapolis on Friday during the city's "Day of Truth and Freedom"—a citywide strike and march in which clergy played a prominent role.
"These folks are showing more grace in accepting me than I would have ever extended to them," Schenck says, flanked by organizers shouting, "Whose streets? Our streets!"The next day, after learning of federal agents shooting and killing Alex Pretti, Schenck extended his stay in the city. More from his journey, and the clergy's fight against ICE, coming soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Schenck
Some time after 2010, Schenck changed his mind about abortion, stating that banning abortion would cause more harm than good, and opposed the effort to overturn Roe v. Wade. He concludes his May 31, 2019, Op-Ed for the New York Times. "No doubt, many of my former allies will call me a turncoat. I don't see it that way. I still believe that every abortion is a tragedy and that when a woman is pregnant, bringing the child into the world is always ideal. Reality, though, is different from fantasy. I wish every child could be fully nurtured and cared for and could experience all the wonderful possibilities that life can offer."[20]
Schenck later stated that he was once part of a group that paid Norma McCorvey (1947–2017)—also known as Jane Roe in the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision—to lie and say that she had changed her mind and joined anti-abortion movements.[1][2][3] Having denounced the anti-abortion movement in 2019, Schenck stated in the 2020 documentary AKA Jane Roe that McCorvey was paid to pose as an anti-abortion rights activist and that "what we did with Norma was highly unethical".[21][1]
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