By Daniel Corado –
Anthony Rogers is now a respected theologian, but he got his start in prison.
“I was running around the streets. I eventually got in trouble for stealing a car and I was incarcerated,” he recounts on a video. “It was actually quite providential. The inmate that I was housed with was a self-professed devil worshiper, and this guy had an axe to grind against the Bible. He kept attacking it.”
At first, Anthony read the Bible to find out why the cellmate was so bitterly opposed to it. Then he read the Bible because it grew fascinating. As an inmate, he had nothing else to do but read his Bible.
“It wasn’t until I heard somebody proclaim the gospel of Christ, that he was the atoning sacrifice for my sins, that God freely accepts me in his Son and forgives my sins on his account, then I turned to him in faith, and everything changed from there,” Anthony says.
He became a Christian in 1993. He kept reading and studying his Bible and, surprisingly, became a theologian.
“I’m thinking what hope do I have that I can be forgiven and I read not only of a God who’s holy and angry with the wicked but who’s boundless in his grace and his loving kindness,” Anthony explains. “I saw that all these judgments also had within them some evidence of God’s grace.”
Once he was released from prison, Anthony got a job at a restaurant where he met the Jewish woman who would ultimately become his wife. She kept asking Anthony questions that her rabbi couldn’t answer.
After they married and had children, he enrolled in the divinity program at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 2018. Originally, his goal was to become a missionary, but his daughter had a rare disease that required the family to stay in the US.
He became an ordained minister and now serves as a regional director for Metanoia Prison Ministries. He has written for numerous websites, periodicals, and theological journals and has contributed to various books such as Our God is Triune.
Anthony has engaged in numerous formal debates with non-Christians and has become a respected authority refuting Islam from a Biblical perspective.
He and his wife have four children.
So Anthony got involved in prison ministry. Today, he’s one of the most respected voice defending Christianity against the cults and Islam.
To learn more about a personal relationship with Jesus, click here.
About this writer: Daniel Corado studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy near West Los Angeles.
