Evangelical icon and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer is arguably the greatest moral giant to emerge from the German resistance to Hitler. He was a brilliant theologian, an evangelical Christian and flamingly gay. He’d be denounced today by people like Sarah Palin and Franklin Graham as unequivocally hell-bound. If Bonhoeffer is in hell because he fell in love with a man–at least in “hell” as it is imagined by American evangelicals — he’s there with the Jews who were gassed in spite... Read more
Here’s the level of discourse related to a conservative answer to my new book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace. … Read the quotes below. What’s with these guys? Please Explain. “…a load of excrement… I don’t think I’m going to be able to finish this book… dipped in the sauce of clueless heresy.” (Amazon review By strannik “strannik” Campbell, CA USA) “I am not going to read this book…The... Read more
Here is an excerpt from WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Chapter 9 Sam likes to call me out of the blue and casually mention the latest dumb stunt perpetrated by the Religious Right, the Roman Catholic bishops or the Republican Party, as if I have anything to do with it. He pretends I’m still one of “them” whenever “they” do something insane. A televangelist says gay people are going... Read more
I have been painting this spring. Here is the work. I paint what is in my garden, what my grandchildren bring me, what lives here with me. Please take a look and also visit my art gallery pages. If you’d like to ask about buying one of these — before they are sent to a gallery where prices are double what’s listed here — please email me and ask. I make art for people to enjoy! I hope you do.... Read more
JUNE 3, 2014 REVIEW June 3, 2014 My Kind of Atheist By PETER LAARMAN By now Frank Schaeffer’s critique of crazy right-wing Christianity is sufficiently well-known that he didn’t need to write that book again. We are much the richer for the book he chose to write instead: a book that expresses a very wise person’s irreducible double-mindedness in relation to things of the spirit. Schaeffer was once a shining star in the conservative Christian firmament—an iconic figure in part because... Read more
I Have Decided to Lower the Kindle Price from $4.99 to $2.99 and put my new book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace in a price range anyone can buy. Please help spread the word! There were 10,000 plus Kindle downloads in the Free promotion & NOW I want to keep the momentum going! Help me change the national discussion on religion for the better! Please tell people … Frank... Read more
10,000-plus people downloaded my book FREE on Kindle in the last 48 hours! If that’s you, please read it and post an Amazon review and then tell someone to buy it! Thanks! Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Available now on Amazon Follow Frank on Twitter www.twitter.com/frank_schaeffer See Frank’s paintings http://www.frankschaefferart.com/ Follow Frank on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 Contact Frank at http://www.frankschaeffer.com/ Read more
When Two Formerly Fundies Chat: My Video Interview With Frank Schaeffer (and get his new book FREE)! May 30, 2014 By Benjamin L. Corey By Ben Corey I may have popularized the term, “formerly fundie”, but Frank Schaeffer was living it out waaaay before I got here. I had been a fan of Frank long before I ever started writing, and never imagined that Frank himself would become the one of the central people who would encourage me to have a seat... Read more
FREE, FREE, FREE Amazon Kindle Promotion NOW! “Click” on Your Free Copy of my new book Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God Promotion Friday May, 30 to Saturday May, 31 ONLY… Please spread the word! Digital List Price: $4.99 Print List Price: $12.99 Kindle Price: $0.00 Fri&Sat Only! You Save: $12.99 (100%) Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Available... Read more
I’ve been a writer and painter all my life. I’ve read a lot about art. This is the single best expression of my own hard won lifetime experience as to the only answer to the questions “Why art?” and “What is the life of the artist all about?” My friend Camilla Tilling — I talk about how I met this wonderful international opera star in my book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty... Read more
Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
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