Peter Jackson May Look a Bit Like a Hobbit But Don’t Let That Fool You: He’s Hollywood All the Commercialized Way

December 24, 2012 By 15 Comments

The debacle that is the movie version of The Hobbit, part one, reminds me of an old story that Dr. C Everett Koop told me over drinks just after he became Ronald Reagan’s Surgeon General. “When I was surgeon in chief at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital,” Koop said, “a lot of my work was fixing mistakes [...]

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An Introduction to the Eastern Orthodox Church For the Curious (My List of Recommended Reading)

November 24, 2012 By 10 Comments

I’m often asked about the Eastern Orthodox Church since I have been going to a Greek Orthodox church for the last 25 years. Since I come from an evangelical background I get the question “Why did you convert?” I didn’t. The word “conversion” implies the evangelical idea of salvation as a one-stop conversion-to-Jesus moment, AKA [...]

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Frank — “wayward, traitorous prince” (NYT) — Schaeffer 2013 Speaking Tour (Call Me I’ll Speak to Your School, Church or Group)

November 9, 2012 By 7 Comments

I’m putting together my 2013 speaking schedule. If you’d like me to speak to your college, church or group now is the time to contact by clicking on this: Frankschaeffer.com (contact information in small print at the top of my homepage) (LINKS to some of the talks I’ve given at UCLA and Princeton etc., are at the [...]

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