(A 1984 satirical magazine cover depicting “Franky” Schaeffer as a “kid” throwing mud at Christianity Today Magazine and Billy Graham for not being conservative enough!) Dear Evangelical Establishment, I know you don’t trust or like me and I don’t blame you! Lord knows what a pain in the ass I am! But instead of just writing me off as wicked, for once you’d better listen up. This is for your own good. In the old days your predecessors didn’t like me because I was faulting you all... Read more
“Gordon College Expels Dietrich Bonhoeffer Because He’s Gay — Christianity Today Magazine Won’t Hire Him Either!” is a headline that would have been insane but understandable in Germany in 1939. Does it make sense in America of 2014? A few weeks ago I met the president of Gordon College. We both happened to be attending a reading by Charles Marsh (Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia) from his new book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The event took place... Read more
Frank Schaeffer Goes It Alone with New Book By Kimberly Winston | Jul 09, 2014 More Newsletters “The fact that I have had a transformative journey has meant one thing,” Schaeffer says. “I reject labels. The way I identify is as a human being. Life is a journey, not a series of conclusions, and I know that I have changed my mind on things before.” And how. Once evangelical royalty–his father, Francis Schaeffer, was a preacher and theologian who,... Read more
The best thing the NY TIMES has done recently is publishing the Gary Gutting interviews. Here’s one you can’t miss… Posts published by Gary Gutting THE STONE JUL 8 7:30 PMJul 8 7:30 pm 42 Does Evolution Explain Religious Beliefs? By GARY GUTTING This is the eighth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy at Florida State University and the author of... Read more
Fourteen religious leaders including Gordon College president D. Michael Lindsay as well as the executive editor of Christianity Today, and pastor Rick Warren, and other Christian magnificent leaders and defenders of freedom sent a letter to the White House demanding a religious exemption to a planned order barring federal contractors from discriminating against gay men and women just because they are gay. “Without a robust religious exemption . . .” the letter states, “this expansion of hiring rights will come at an... Read more
“FAG MARRIAGE DOOMS NATIONS,” says one picket sign from the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. Meanwhile Gordon College president D. Michael Lindsay was among 14 religious leaders who sent a letter to the White House demanding a “religious exemption” to a planned order barring federal contractors from discriminating in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. In other words the Gordon administration believes that religious liberty is the right to persecute gays. Gordon found a slightly more polite way of stating... Read more
Can carry a loaded gun in public Can’t get contraceptives Can go to the Creation Museum Can’t get a good science education Can beat your kids Can’t marry a gay person Can make millions off selling God Can’t provide medical care for children Can lie about President Obama Can’t vote without an I.D. Can follow the teachings of Ayn Rand Can’t follow the teachings of Jesus Christ Can raise 73 million to build a replica Noah’s ark in Kentucky Can’t... Read more
I had my first deep wet kiss with a woman at the evangelical establishment bastion of Wheaton College. Dad was lecturing there. I was fifteen. She was a twenty-something house mother in a dorm. Memorable!!! Now Wheaton will also be remembered as the place the far right Obama-haters used to try and discredit the president with a lie. This time the lie is that Obama is “anti-religious” because he thinks women should have the right to contraception. Wheaton will be remembered as the... Read more
“The Supreme court is run by a bunch of GOP lackeys.” Watch my latest blast on POLITICS NATION 07/02/14 about the Hobby Lobby ruling and the rising clout of the religious right. (Frank Schaeffer, author of “Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God,” joins MSNBC to discuss the religious right’s celebration of the Supreme Court’s landmark Hobby Lobby decision…) Watch: Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give... Read more
National Organization For Marriage co-founder Robert George with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Pope Francis must have vomited when he heard the Hobby Lobby news. Nothing could undo the good he has recently done the Church’s image more than yet another case of anti-woman lashing out by a cabal or far right Roman Catholic activists– this time in the Supreme Court. Alarmed by the Supreme Court pandering to the extreme religious right in the Hobby Lobby case, the new pope... Read more
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