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Former US Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska spoke openly about his faith and dealing with death when he was depressed. interview published on Wednesday.
“When we were discovered, we knew the chances of imminent death were very high,” Sasse said in a nearly hour-long interview with Michael Horton and Dan Bryant, former assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice, published on Sola Media’s YouTube page.
“And then, A, to live like Christ, to die is gain,” said Sasse. “We felt incredibly blessed that Melissa and I, and my wife, made peace with all of this so quickly. But because one of our three children is still at home, our daughters are 24 and 22, and my 14-year-old son, he felt like he had an obligation to try to fight back a little bit.”
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Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., speaks during a Senate finance committee hearing on Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)
In December, Sasse announced that he was diagnosed with metastatic stage-four pancreatic cancer cancerand called it a “death sentence.”
Sasse, who previously worked as the director of the White Horse Inn and the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation at Sola Media, said his faith helped him process his illness.
“The folly of our works is clearly visible to you when you try to really look at the calculation of life,” said Sasse, adding, “Jesus did everything on the cross to fulfill all the law. I didn’t fulfill any of them. He fulfilled them all.”
He also said that the disease has changed his understanding of what is really important, describing many of the things he once cared about as “nonsensical.”
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Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., speaks during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
“I have a lot of tumors growing in and around my spine, so, I had severe pain that was hard to feel,” she said. “And it certainly broke down the idols very quickly; a lot of the dumb things that I cared so much about, and I trusted so much about, seemed so absurd.”
Sasse also reflected on how he wished he had put more emphasis on going to church and keeping the Sabbath.
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Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., was sworn in by former US vice president Joe Biden and Sasse’s wife Melissa Sasse, son Augustin Sasse and daughter Elizabeth Sasse in the Old Senate Chamber at the US Capitol Jan. 6, 2015, Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“One thing I tell my kids a lot is, ‘Man, I wish I had taken the Lord’s Day more seriously in my life, because it’s a really good antidote to all that idolatry,'” Sasse said. “God smashing idols for us is a blessing, and getting the death penalty is a really good way.”
Sasse worked in The Senate from early 2015 to early 2023, he then served as president of the University of Florida, resigning. in 2024 after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.
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