Take 4 minutes and learn that God, Beauty, Art, Love and Spirituality actually exist. Here’s proof positive of the forever of the human spirit. And it’s better than any theological of philosophical argument. Amen?
Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex
June 4, 2013 By 1 Comment
Here’s a clip from my interview in “Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex.” Matt Barber – the director of Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex - a documentary – is posting clips from the project on YouTube. Here’s mine. Click HERE for more clips from the movie and watch!
IS GOD NICE?
December 4, 2012 By 3 Comments
Huff Post LIVE on God & Evil with Frank Schaeffer and others WATCH~~~~ To book Frank Schaeffer to speak at your college, church or group contact him at Frankschaeffer.com Frank Schaeffer is a writer and author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take [...]
How to Keep Your Mate Even If You Are A Semi-Evolved Recovering Evangelical Controlling Bastard
December 3, 2012 By 24 Comments
Following her mother’s example my first child Jessica returned love for my clumsy-to-bad-to-mean “fathering…” She was born when I was 18 but I eventually grew up. When she was a young adult I asked Jessica to forgive me for the times I’d pulled her hair, for the slaps and unkind yelling she endured as [...]
Frank Schaeffer and Jay Bakker Talk/Preach/Meet and Unpack Their Pasts, Families and Doubts
October 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here’s my talk/conversation/sermon I shared/did with Jay Bakker in NYC this last Sunday. I hope you find it interesting. Jay and my friend Vince run the Revolution church and I was their guest. I’ve been to the church before — they meet in a very cool bar in Brooklyn — and I always love my [...]
Who Needs This God Nonsense?
September 27, 2012 By 37 Comments
And yet, here I am telling my four-year-old granddaughter Lucy that God made the rock she just asked about. We’ve climbed up on this granite outcropping surrounded by water and reeds on the marsh overlooking the Merrimack Bay near my house. We’ve brought chalk to draw on the rock. Her arms are around my neck. [...]
Hey, Hey Christianity Today THIS is What a Movie Review Looks Like (“Hellbound? Reviewed in Variety)
September 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
From Variety Posted: Sun., Sep. 23, 2012, 7:43pm PT New U.S. Release Hellbound? (Documentary — Canada) By JUSTIN CHANG An Area 23A (in North America) release presented with Kevin Miller Xi Prods. Produced by David Rempel, Miller. Executive producer, David Krysko. Directed, written by Kevin Miller. With: Sharon Baker, Glen Benton, Mike Bickle, [...]
The Blessed Hypocrisy “Method Acting” of Salvation PART 2 (of 4)
September 11, 2012 By 14 Comments
It’s tempting to rationalize my bad behavior as “caused” by wrong ideas. But blaming wrong beliefs for our true biological natures is as crazy as thinking that right ideas will save us. So when atheists blame religion for war, they are being as silly as Christians who blame atheism for the Gulag. And thinking you [...]
The Blessed Hypocrisy “Method Acting” of Salvation PART 1 (of 4 Parts)
September 10, 2012 By 17 Comments
In the world of wishful delusion, prayer “changes” us. In reality we’re stuck on this blue flyspeck in space on the edge of a cyclical multi-universe no one understands. In the context of the fraction of the cosmos we can observe sometimes it seems like we are less significant than the parasites inhabiting our intestinal [...]
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