George E. Grant (born 1954 in Houston, Texas) is an American evangelical writer, and a Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) pastor. He was a church planter and pastor in Texas for ten years. He then served as an assistant to D. James Kennedy at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and taught at Knox Theological Seminary. Following his move to Tennessee in 1991, Grant founded the King's Meadow Study Center and Franklin Classical School in Franklin. In 2006, he helped found New College Franklin, a Christian liberal arts college. Grant has also founded several Christian schools in northern Iraq. He is "a prolific author of Christian books." He is currently involved in church planting in Middle Tennessee and serves as the pastor of Parish Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee. Grant is an anti-abortion advocate. Grant is a prominent figure in the Christian reconstructionist movement in the United States, and has been noted for his extremely conservative views, particularly on the topic of homosexuality. Education Grant has degrees in Political Science from the University of Houston (B.A.), Philosophy from Whitefield Theological Seminary (M.A., D. Litt, PhD.), Humanities from Belhaven College (D. Hum.), and Theology from Knox Theological Seminary (D. Min. Cand.). Career Grant is a former vice president of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, a Florida megachurch, and has been a lecturer at Knox Theological Seminary. Grant became Executive Director of the Coral Ridge ministry on February 1, 1990; the ministry had a $17 million annual budget in 1990. Grant planted Parish Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee in 2006. He continues to be Pastor. Grant is the founder of Franklin Classical School, a K - 12, college preparatory, classical school in Franklin, Tennessee. Political activity In 1991 Grant was one of the founders of the U.S. Taxpayers' Party, which sought to outlaw abortion, end government funding for the Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts, and replace government funded welfare benefits with private charity. Beliefs Grant is a notable Christian reconstructionist; Reason magazine in 1998 quoted him as saying "World conquest. It is dominion we are after...." Grant appeared in the 2017 creationist documentary film Is Genesis History?, in which he advocates for young Earth creationism. In his 1993 book Legislating Immorality: the Homosexual Movement Comes out of the Closet, Grant wrote positively about past executions of gay people. He criticized the abandoning of the death penalty for homosexuality, writing