Detail from my painting, “Seeing Love Clearly.” Where we go to church, or whether we go, isn’t the point. The point is who are we becoming? Does church help you to become the sort of person you’d pick to be stuck on a desert island with? Good! Go! Does it hurt your chances of becoming that person? Run! Flee from exclusionary certainty. As the bumper sticker says, “Mean People Suck!” And that goes especially for people who are... Read more
Prime Minister David Cameron writing on why “My Christianity compels me to make a difference.” For once a world leader talks about his faith openly, even cheerfully! ‘Greater confidence in our Christianity can inspire a stronger belief that we can get out there and actually change people’s lives’. Photograph: Lynne Cameron/PA This is an edited version of an article which first appeared in the Church Times By David Cameron it was reprinted in the Guardian and is reprinted here by permission. By... Read more
I was shuffling forward in the communion line, with my five year old granddaughter Lucy in my arms. I was lost in gloomy thoughts, brooding on my past and on my doubts, failures, and my past meanness to my wife Genie (we’ve been married 44 years) when I was young, stupid and so woefully controlling as a teen “father.” I was feeling that going to church was a waste of time. I was feeling unworthy in every sense of... Read more
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD How to Create Beauty, Give Love and Find Peace “Frank Schaeffer always writes well, but Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes In God is extraordinary. Somewhere between the sterile, absolute, and empty formulae of reductionist, totalitarian science and the earnest, hostile, excessively certain make-believe of religious fundamentalism, there is a beautiful place. There is room in this place for honesty. For tenderness. For fury. For wonder. For... Read more
Here is what Phyllis Tickle and Ron Dart have written about my new book which they just read in advance of publication. And here is the book cover too. The book will be on sale by June 1 in print and on all E-Book platforms. WHY I’M AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD How to Create Beauty, Give Love and Find Peace By Frank Schaeffer “A delight and charmer of a read—deft insights, burnished gold probes, arrow hit bull’s eye... Read more
“My dad was shocked by the hatred in the religious right…” Here’s my “Pro-Life — And In Favor Of Keeping Abortion Legal” NPR interview. I talk about the history of the anti-abortion movement, gay rights, violence, what our family did. You may listen here. FRANK SCHAEFFER/TERRI GORSS/NPR Listen to the Story LISTEN HERE: Fresh Air from WHYY Coming Soon From Frank Schaeffer (Pub Date May 15)… WHY I’M AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD How to Create Beauty, Give Love and... Read more
New England Premiere! I’m on tour with American Jesus– first stop tonight in Boston. Join me at 7 PM or in many other North American venues in the next weeks/months. WATCH the trailer here below… The Brattle Theatre • 40 Brattle St., Cambridge MA 02138 • Harvard Square • 617 876-6837 • [email protected] New England Premiere! 2013, Spain, 80 min. Director Aram Garriga Screenwriter Aram Garriga & Xavi Prat Cast Keenan Smith, Mara Einstein, Mickey Stonier WATCH Trailer! TO BOOK A SCREENING CONTACT the PRODUCERS AT... Read more
World Vision’s annual budget is $1 billion. When $1 billion is at stake you backtrack. The Evangelical establishment closed ranks against gay men and women signaling to a new generation of Christians that their religion stands for backward stupidity, not to mention hate. World Vision’s move to allow married gay people to work for the organization was denounced by evangelical leaders as a ‘disaster’ betrayal of biblical morality. Christians canceled their child sponsorship. World Vision caved. The Assemblies of God, told its... Read more
WATCH THIS! Sara Marié a.k.a. smoukahontas, is an extremely talented young woman from Finland. Like the late great Sid Caesar, “smoukahontas” does killer imitations of FAKE language while speaking made up nonsense. Remember Caeser’s fake German on his pioneering 1950s live television series Your Show of Shows? Well, in the videos below Sara Marié a.k.a. smoukahontas, has the sound and inflections of languages DOWN, same for her music genres– no real words, just the accents and inflections. Amazing! She’s Liv Tyler & Scarlett Johansson + unlimited... Read more
Fred Phelps is dead. There’s only one interesting thing about Phelps: He was the mirror that respectable evangelicals hated to look into. The only difference between Fred and, say, the editors of Christianity Today magazine, is that Fred was really, really rude, made less money and got arrested more often. But in the essentials of his Calvinist evangelical theology, Fred was a good mainstream evangelical. If you believe in Calvinist theology — Phelps stated that he held to all of... Read more
Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
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