Grant earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. And Doctor of Philosophy from the California Graduate School of Theology.
He served as the chairman of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby", and the American Freedom Coalition. He was also awarded a diploma from the Saint Paul Bible College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Grant involved national conservative leaders in his movement, including Gary Jarmin, Howard Phillips, Terry Dolan, and Richard Viguerie.
Christian Voice-backed candidates included Ronald Reagan, Steve Symms, Dan Quayle, and John East defeated incumbents in the 1978 and 1980 elections.
Grant"s group campaigned for the election of President Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election. Similar groups subsequently founded included Concerned Women for America, American Coalition for Traditional Values, and the Christian Coalition.
He was the founding president of the American Freedom Coalition with Ralph David Abernathy. He is currently on the board of governors of the Council for National Policy.
Grant appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline, Columbia Broadcasting System, National Broadcasting Company News, the Morton Downey, Junior.
Show, Good Morning America, Columbia Broadcasting System Nightwatch and various local and national radio and television talk shows. Grant has also worked as a radio talk show host, as the co-host of the television talk show Let Freedom Ring, and on the publisher"s council of Conservative Digest Magazine, and is the publisher of American Freedom Journal. Grant is an ordained Baptist minister.
He has worked in various ministerial positions, as the religion editor of the Washington Times, and has led over 125 pilgrimages to Israel.
He was a founding chairman Coalition for Religious Freedom and the American Coalition for Traditional Values, both with Tim Lahaye. He founded the United Community Church of Glendale, California.
He is a member of the Religious Roundtable.
