Change of Heart

Yesterday I listened to a fascinating interview with Frank Schaeffer on NPR's Fresh Air. Schaeffer is the son of the deceased Evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer, who founded the influential Swiss ministry called L'Abri during the 60s and who did more than virtually anyone else to begin the turning of the pro-Life movement into a powerful political machine contained within the Republican Party.

Frank Schaeffer was active in this movement with his father for many years, but within the last few years has had a complete change of heart. Just this year, he supported Barack Obama for President and wrote about his reasons for that. But his interview with Terri Gross (click on the link in the above paragraph and then click on the red 'speaker') is especially interesting for the insights he gives into his childhood at L'Abri, the man his father really was, his involvement in the Religious Right in the 80s and 90s, and his change of heart. (I recommend listening to it to the very end, where he shares some particularly poignant information about his father which I hadn't heard before.)