Enemy Love
Excerpt from Lancelot Schaubert's, Least of these Least, published 2023. Used by permission.
The gospel would be easier if it existed just for my buddies, but I’m not that kind of Christian. In fact, I d...
Lancelot Schaubert has authored 14 books, 15 scripts, 40+ stories, 30+ songs, 60+ articles, 200+ poems, and a thesis for markets such as MacMillan (TOR), The New Haven Review (Yale’s Institute Library), The Anglican Theological Review, McSweeney’s, Writer’s Digest, The World Series Edition of Poker Pro, Standard Publishing, and the Poet’s Market — most recently his debut novel Bell Hammers, which he also narrated in theatrical audiobook. ******************************************************************************** He has ghostwritten and edited for NYT Bestsellers like Tim Keller, Brian Jennings, wrote the book proposal that sold Dr. Mark Moore’s thesis (University of Prague) to TNT Clark, was the first to review Dr. Jordan Wood’s The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor, wrote copy for large international nonprofit orgs and companies, and has served as an editor for bestselling fantasy authors Juliet Marrilier, Kaaron Warren, and Howard Andrew Jones for the anthology Of Gods and Globes (not to mention work as an senior editor / producer for The Joplin Toad and Showbear Family Circus). ******************************************************************************** As a producer and director-writer, he co-reinvented the photonovel through Cold Brewed with Mark Neuenschwander. That work caught the attention of the Missouri Tourism Board (as well as the Chicago Museum of Photography), who commissioned them to create a second photonovel, The Joplin Undercurrent; he also worked on films with Flying Treasure, WRKR, etc.; helped judge the Brooklyn Film Festival and NYC Film Festival; and he wrote, produced, and performed the symphonic novella All Who Wander. Spark + Echo selected him as their 2019 artist in residence, commissioning him to craft 8 fiction pieces that illuminated Biblical pericopes. ******************************************************************************** He’s currently on assignment in Alaska for a documentary film, on assignment in Brooklyn for a potential criminal justice piece of journalism, and many other projects. ******************************************************************************** He lives and serves to help others make what they feel called to make: to that end he has raised over $400,000 in the last seven years for film, literary, audio, and visual arts projects as an artist chaplain in Brooklyn, New York. As he types this sentence, that means clipping the beard hairs of a dying theater producer and dealing with the estate administration for said producer’s foster kids. ******************************************************************************** His 2023 book, "Least of These Least", spiked at #1 in Christian Liberation Theology, #1 in Monasticism & Asceticism, #1 in Local U.S. Politics (Neighbor love). It further hit top 30 in theology, top 15 in Worship, top 100 in U.S. politics in general. He also wrote the novel "Bell Hammers", which Publisher's Weekly called "a hoot" and narrated the audiobook version.