Rob Schenck

Rev. Rob Schenck is an evangelical minister and former activist for Operation Rescue and other national anti-abortion groups. He is president of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in Washington, D.C., and author of Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister’s Rediscovery of Faith, Hope and Love.

Recent Articles

My Words Led to Violence. Now Trump's Are Too

As a national anti-abortion leader for more than 30 years, I routinely used inflammatory language from the podium. At rallies for the activist anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue, I depicted doctors who performed abortions as murderers,...

By Rob Schenck

Evangelical Pastor: The Church Should Help Keep Guns From Abusers

The motive of the shooter who took 26 lives, injured 20 more and devastated a community by spraying semi-automatic gunfire into a small church sanctuary seemed baffling. We were told by experts that we may...

By Rob Schenck

I Used to Confront Abortion Doctors—Until One Got Murdered

'It is time for pro-life activists to examine the unintended consequences of our often over-heated rhetoric'

By Rob Schenck

How Christians Should Respond to Being a Target of Shooters

In Oregon, a deeply troubled, severely depressed, and anti-social young man legally purchased 14 lethal weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a steel-plated bulletproof jacket. On October 1, he used some of those deadly...

By Rob Schenck
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