How would Jesus vote?

his wife, Cheryl, was planning to pursue a graduate degree in counseling, “One [of our donors] went to the bother of flying from Chicago to Seattle for a fatherly talk with me, telling me that [she] needed to withdraw from school and get back home where she belonged.”

Deep down, he understood that, due to his people-pleasing, he’d gotten off-track. “The vision that first drew me to ministry, of the parson, the shepherd caring for his lost sheep ... was getting lost in the oversized, frantic, belligerent warrior priest, the model of a pro-life clergyman that I had become.”

One situation that caused a change in his thinking was an encounter with an African-American pastor from suburban Washington, D.C., right after the 2008 general election. While they agreed on political/moral issues, that pastor said he was celebrating the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, telling Mr. Schenck, “Today I am as much a man as you are.” To that Mr. Schenck admitted, “This was a long-overdue validation of their very humanity. ... I had selfrighteously questioned whether God could really love liberals like Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and countless others who opposed us, because their political beliefs appeared so patently hostile to God’s moral will.”

And after attending the Republican National Convention in 2016, “I resolved that what I had been witness to in Cleveland was the final moral collapse of the politicized religion that had infected me and millions of others back in the [1980s], when American evangelicals entered into their Faustian bargain pact with Ronald Reagan’s party. Nothing good could come of this badly diseased body.”

Conservative evangelical Trump supporters might consider Mr. Schenck a turncoat. He’d say the same about them, as “Trump’s victory was the direct result of the evangelical sellout I had mourned after the Cleveland convention.”

This is the first book about such a dramatic change of heart by an evangelical leader that I’m aware of. There needs to be more.