Frank on Francis Schaeffer and Abortion Politics

"If it had been the other way around and the left had championed the unborn, perhaps against corporate medical industry interests, or in the name of equality — or because of the lessons taught by the rise of the eugenics movement of the 1920s and 1930s, or because of being queasy over a recently slave- owning society once again deciding who was more equal, even more 'human' legally than others — my father would have been embraced as a religious leader on the left. And if Dad had been allied with the left, it would have ultimate been a much better fit for him — and for me."

(Schaeffer, Crazy for God, 347)

Caleb Stegall on Whig Evangelicals

The Restless Evangelicals

"This whiggish spirit is the deepest Evangelical commitment, one that crosses political and ecclesial lines. This Evangelical praise song is sounded in the key of world immanent salvation with equal enthusiasm by right and left, by George Bush and Hillary Clinton, by Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama. The claims of liberal theologians like Jim Wallis about the welfare state’s ability to alleviate poverty are topped only by the claims of conservative theologians like Michael Novak that capitalism can end global poverty."