Chapter 14: New Life!
1.John Newton (1725–1807), “Amazing Grace.”
2.Francis Schaeffer, The Francis A. Schaeffer Trilogy: The Three Essential Books in One Volume, bk. 1, The God Who Is There (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1990), 165.
3.Thomas Williams, “Saint Anselm,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (spring 2016 ed.), ed. Edward N. Zalta, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/anselm/.
4.2 Chronicles 33:1–16.
5.Acts 9:1–19.
6.John Newton, The Amazing Works of John Newton (Alachua, FL: Bridge-Logos, 2009), 338.
7.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoted in Daniel Mahoney, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 50.
8.“The More Than 100 Million Deaths that Communism Caused, Divided by Countries,” Counting Stars (blog), December 18, 2017, http://www.outono.net/elentir/2017/12/18/the-more-than-100-million-deaths-that-communism-caused-divided-by-countries/.
9.C. S. Lewis, “They Asked for a Paper,” in Is Theology Poetry? (London: Geoffrey Bless, 1962), 164–65.
10.Source unknown.
11.Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ: In Four Books, new ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1889), 293.
Chapter 16: New Possibilities
1.“Hoover and the FBI,” PBS, accessed February 12, 2019, http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/people/people_hoover.html.
Chapter 18: Ole Miss: A Happy Change
1.St. Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine (Ger.: Jazzybee Verlag, n.d.), 58.
Chapter 19: A New Direction
1.Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (first edition, 1869), 243.
2.Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 243.
3.About a year after I left, the School for Urban Missions folded.
Chapter 20: Making Sense of It All
1.Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place (Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen, 2006), 8.
Conclusion
1.Francis Schaeffer, The Mark of a Christian (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 29.
2.Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 82.
3.John White, The Cost of Commitment (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006); also, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: Touchstone, 1995).
4.The hatred between Jews and Samaritans was comparable to that between white racists and black people during America’s worst days.
5.John Stott, Issues Facing Christians Today (London: Collins/Marshall Pickering, 1990), 140.
6.“Billy Graham on Racism,” The Billy Graham Library, January 8, 2018, https://billygrahamlibrary.org/billy-graham-racism/.
7.John Stott, Racialism v. Our Common Humanity, Church of England Newspaper, May 10, 1968.
8.A good start would be: John Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down (Regal Books, 2006) and John Perkins, One Blood (Moody Publishers, 2018).
9.Kate Shellnutt, “What Is Billy Graham’s Friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. Worth?,” Christianity Today, February 23, 2018, https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/february/billy-graham-martin-luther-king-jr-friendship-civil-rights.html. It should be noted that Dr. King wanted Billy Graham to be more active in publicly supporting the civil rights movement, but that Graham was concerned that doing so would close many doors to his evangelistic work.
10.For an initial orientation, see Joe Carter, “The FAQs: What Christians Should Know About Antisemitism,” The Gospel Coalition, October 30, 2018, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-faqs-what-christians-should-know-about-antisemitism/. Movies like Schindler’s List and The Hiding Place can remind us of the realities of the Holocaust.
11.For example, through the eighteenth Evangelical Awakening in Britain and the work of such key figures as John Wesley, John Newton, William Wilberforce, the Clapham group, and people like Lord Shaftesbury and Hannah More.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas A. Tarrants is president emeritus of the C. S. Lewis Institute, where he served from 1998 to 2019. Prior to working at the institute, he was co-pastor of a multiracial church in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Church Alliance. Tom has pursued a ministry of teaching, writing, and spiritual mentoring for many years, with a focus on discipleship, prayer, and devotional life. He holds a master of divinity degree and a doctor of ministry degree in Christian spirituality.
*At the request of my family, for which my past notoriety has not been helpful, I have not mentioned them in this book.
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