SUNDAY LUNCH WITH... 'Left Behind' author Jerry Jenkins 'The last thing we want to do is offend God's chosen people'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: November 9, 2003| Author: Debra Pickett | Copyright information

Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the wildly popular "Left Behind" series of religiously themed adventure novels, wants me to know that he's not an anti-Semite.

"The last thing we want to do," he says, referring to himself and his co-author, evangelist Tim LaHaye, "is offend God's chosen people."

And, as if to underline the point, he's even ordered a bagel.

Still, as we talk over breakfast at the Great Street Restaurant inside the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, it's hard to ignore t...