Frank Schaeffer, You Ignorant Slut! (“Put a bullet in his head while he sleeps…”)

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

The Greg Rubottom guest column on abortion I posted here generated heated responses. Here are two unedited as they were posted online originally. One is reasonable and instructive. The other includes this line — “I’ll be over to this man’s house tonight to put a bullet in his head while he sleeps.“ The “put a bullet in his head” response is of the SNL “Weekend Update” Chevy Chase v Jane Curtin “Jane you ignorant slut!” ilk but even Chevy Chase never told Jane Curtin he’d “… put a bullet in... Read more

The Night I Met Jesus: A (True) Christmas Story

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Sometimes our learning curve is forced on us, if not by God then by God’s angels say, by Mr. and Mrs. Parke. Being sent to Great Walstead School in 1962 (a boarding school for boys in Lindfield, Sussex, England) when I was ten was one such experience. Mr. Parke was the headmaster, and Mrs. Parke was both a teacher and his eagle-eyed helpmeet. She (like her husband) gave “her” boys opportunities that I came to fully appreciate only years later. In... Read more

The Secret Of My (Mostly Happy) 42 Year Marriage to Genie Revealed (as sung) by Paloma Faith

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Here is “how” Genie and I have stayed married for 42 years. Listen, watch and LOVE. Gay, straight, married, unmarried, transgender, Christian, Jew, Muslim or Atheist… this is for us all. Paloma is one wise woman. Enjoy! And “Just Be.” Please DO comment below. Let’s have a conversation about love, sex, marriage, relationships and music! 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... Read more

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

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

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 the “born-again” experience of passing from “dark to light.” But the Orthodox view of salvation is of a mysterious journey toward God. So I don’t think I was “lost”... Read more

Is There Any Crime Israel Could Commit Against the Palestinian Refugees That American Evangelical Christians Would Object To?

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

“We are witnessing a dramatic transformation in the relationship between [American Evangelical] Christians and Jews, who are focusing now on the common values and the common future we both share,” Prime Minister Netanyahu (Quoted March 20, 2012 in “Pastor John Hagee’s Christian Zionist Enterprise Hits One Million Member Mark” Truthout) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Christians United for Israel Christian supporters with John Hagee in Jerusalem March 2012. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershon / Government Press Office) ~Guest Column by... Read more

“The Evangelicals Are a Cancer In the Republican Party” (Watch Frank Schaeffer on MSNBC)

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

To book Frank to speak at your college, church or group please contact Frank HERE 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 All (or Almost All) of It Back. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Read more

Why Evangelical Bible Idolatry Sucks and Why I Go to a Greek Orthodox Church Even Though It’s A Mess Too

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Having elevated the Bible — or at least the nicer bits that they like — to the status of a magic book evangelicals have demoted God. Their “god” is trapped in a book and kept somewhat like a tame rat inside the cage of “biblical inerrancy.” Since the evangelical/fundamentalists worship a book rather than God they can’t admit that the Bible has flaws and is just plain crazy in places. So they spend lifetimes working to make “sense” of... Read more

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

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

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 bottom of this page where you may watch them.) Talk Topics Include: The Impact of Religion on American Politics My Journey Out Of the Religious... Read more

Do Christians Have Something Better To Do Than Spending the Next 4 Years Hating and Lying About President Obama The Way They Did For The Last 4 Years?

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

On the morning after the reelection of President Obama American Christians of a conservative-to-far-right bent typified by the leadership of the evangelical establishment and the Roman Catholic bishops have to admit that along with the Republican Party they have just been resoundingly repudiated. Since I was one of the minor nepotistic sidekick architects of the rise of the religious right in the 1970s-80s along with my late evangelist father Francis Schaeffer, (before I changed my mind and fled as I describe in my... Read more

The Next Term of the Obama Presidency Will Be Great — Obama’s Critics (Left and Right) Were Wrong

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Given my Religious Right background I’m one of the President’s most unlikely fans. Maybe that’s because I know the alternative– from the inside. I fear the alternative to the President — Far Right loons of the Tea Party/evangelical religious right ilk — and have never felt I had the luxury of being an armchair lefty critic demoralizing Obama’s supporters because he’s the only person who stands between the village idiots and us. Before he’d served even one year President Obama lost the... Read more