My new book is now in bookstores. Barnes & Noble has stocked it in big numbers. So have many smaller stores. Please help me spread the word! Please check your local store. I want to help my book find new readers and also help bookstores! I’m working my butt off traveling and speaking—for FREE—to audiences all over the US and Canada. In response I’m getting email and FB messages by the hundreds like this one: “For the first time in two... Read more
Obama is black! They are black! He’s African! They are African! He wants to let them in with no travel ban! He wants us all to die! He hates America! He’s a secret Muslim! He wasn’t born here! He wants to take away our guns! The white/Fox News/Tea Party/Republican/American reaction to Ebola is moving into the high gear of xenophobia, victimology and fear of the other… and a thank-you-Jesus! phase of naked opportunism: Ebola is just what’s needed to... Read more
The Bible Belt is the Porn Belt. According to a new study, the more you say you literally believe in the Bible, the more you watch porn. At least that’s the inevitable fact-based conclusion drawn from the biggest study of internet Google porn searches by region. Here’s some excerpts from a brilliant article by Valerie Tarico first published in Alternet that proves the point. (Reprinted by permission.) Smut in Jesusland: “The honest truth is that we all have our failings, Christian or not, liberal... Read more
Feminist games critic cancels talk after terror threat Anita Sarkeesian cancels talk at Utah State University over threats of ‘the deadliest school shooting’ in US history… theguardian.com, Wednesday 15 October 2014 06.30 EDT (reprinted by permission) Anita Sarkeesian talks at the Media Evolutions Conference in 2013. Photograph: Susanne Nilsson/flickr The feminist pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian has been forced to cancel a talk at Utah State University, after a threat of a “Montreal Massacre-style attack”. Sarkeesian, who is best... Read more
Nick Blazis Oct 11th, 5:39am Mr. Schaeffer,I just read your recent article about the Delta Spirit show at the paradise, great read, and you are absolutely right about the band being incredible…..That was an awesome show, one of the best live performances I’ve seen in my life…. And looking at the picture of all you guys back stage, I just realized I was in the room with you all when you took it!…. in total shock that I was back... Read more
Let’s be honest as we head into the November elections to Christian Republicans in the grip of the “End Times”, the Ebola outbreak is a godsend for Republicans, evangelicals, racists and the Tea Party. From the Obama-hating apocalypse-loving, “End Times”-desiring rights’ point of view what could be finer by way of confirming all their xenophobic victimology than a global pandemic carried by black people? And this “plague” arrived when an African-not-born-in-America-and-who-is-a-secret-Muslim-who-tried-to-do-socialism-and-do-homosexuality-to-US-real-Americans, is ruling us and taking away all our guns! Ebola has arrived... Read more
(A New Eden Oil on canvas 18 x 18 by Frank Schaeffer) Why couldn’t my father Francis Schaeffer have stolen from God and God’s children like everyone else? I mean I wouldn’t have to be on an endless book tour actually scraping out a writer’s living staying in shit motels if he had. I miss Genie, my gorgeous luminous muse and wife of 44 years, and my soul-filling grandchildren Lucy (6), Jack (4) and Nora (7 months) who live across the street and... Read more
“Frank Schaeffer” Daily update ⋅ October 11, 2014 NEWS Forbes How Frank Schaeffer Walked Away From Power To Find Meaning Forbes The most dramatic moment in Frank Schaeffer’s life probably wasn’t when he went from being a world-famous evangelist to a man shoplifting pork … Flag as irrelevant How (And Why) To Crush The Dreams Of Others Forbes Frank Schaeffer was a part of the family business. Now he’s not, as I recounted in a related article. Bart Campolo was a part of the family business. Flag... Read more
(Frank S hanging out back stage with the band Delta Spirit, and with my pals Jesse and Dan Russell.) I was tired, so fucking tired! The night before last I’d been at The Paradise Club in Boston at a rock concert by Delta Spirit. Now I was in New York listening to the St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach at the most coveted “two-performances-only” concert in town. No one could get tickets. I could because the lyric soprano Camilla Tilling... Read more
Who knew I’d write a book that would help a Jew connect more deeply with his Jewish spirituality? “I heard my rabbi better this year as I fasted and sat all day in the synagogue on Yom Kippur in Riverside, CA., and was more focused. Yes, I really think that reading your books and connecting with you helped that much.” Hi , Frank, when I first wrote to you after reading one of your posts on Huff Post, I was... Read more
Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
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