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August 2014

August 19, 2014

It is in the moments of inner stillness that come from humility and unknowing that we can sense the presence of God

Only after we start to admit our addiction to certainty can we begin to actually...

August 19, 2014

Please Join me at the Kansas City Public Library Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:30pm

Please Join me at the Kansas City Public Library Thursday, August 21, 2014. I'll talk,...

August 15, 2014

How I Trashed Frank Schaeffer in my Novel as an American Hitler and Why He’s Promoting It: Guest BLOG by the Former Schaeffer Family Crossway Books Publicist

Katie sent me this essay about trashing me. It's good so I'm publishing it as...

August 11, 2014

Switchfoot’s Album & Movie “Fading West” — It’s Grace in Action, Hope Crystallized, Damnation Canceled in Favor of Love…

I was just speaking at SoulFest (August 7-9). It's a music festival with evangelical roots. The band...

August 08, 2014

We Spend Lifetimes Striving to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace. Why?

It was a bright September day, clear, cool and perfect. My wife Genie, my grandchildren...

August 07, 2014

Join me I’ll be speaking 4 times at SoulFest. Aug 7-9. This is the first evangelical type event I’ve been to for years… But Dan Russell (former U2 manager) who organizes SF is a pal…

Join me where I'll be speaking 4 times (!) at SoulFest. Aug 7-9. This is...

August 06, 2014

Evangelical and/or Post-Evangelical Christianity, “Progressive” or “Conservative,” Has Snapped My Brain and Yours— We’re Addicts

Sorry, folks, but the truth is that the little private world of evangelical and post-evangelical...

August 05, 2014

I would not have burned in hell for sleeping with the many women I’ve looked at longingly, but adultery would have ruined my marriage

Ironically, although Mom and Dad may have been deluded by their fundamentalist certainties, I am...

August 03, 2014

Today is my 62nd birthday. Let me share what I’ve learned so far about who God hates

Today is my 62nd birthday. Let me share what I’ve learned so far about who...

August 02, 2014

I’ll make a bet: If I asked you for a $32.79 donation to a Crowdsourcing project to change religion into a “church of hopeful uncertainty” you’d donate

Dear Patheos Friends, I’m Launching a PROJECT “Say NO to Fundamentalism and YES to Mystery, Wonder...

August 01, 2014

“love embraced as a stark life-changing and essential fact as real as the carbon compounds that form the basis of life”

Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

what is truer than a story about a journey into one person’s Eternal Present powered by a single bite of tomato on a summer afternoon?

Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds...

July 21, 2014

U2’s art is many things but never a prank

With each album and concert, the Irish quartet U2 has made tonal craft-rich music of...

July 20, 2014

Have you gone to my Facebook page yet to advise me on if I should do another FREE offer on the Kindle of my new book?

Have you gone to my Facebook page yet to advise me on if I should...

July 17, 2014

My Summer 2014 Show of NEW Paintings Just Went Live! Please Look!

Summer 2014 Show All paintings offered here are half the gallery price. Shipping and insurance...

July 15, 2014

Look into the faces of the people who know you best. Be honest with yourself about what’s written there, and you will know yourself– the Wild Goose Video Clip

Here's a 5 min clip from a 45 min talk... Couldn't make the Wild Goose Festival?...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

A Wild Goose Book Launch: “Please Ask God to Make You Grow Old Slowly”

The Rev. Frank Schaefer (author of "Defrocked") meets Frank Schaeffer (author of "Why I Am an Atheist...

June 27, 2014

Live From the Wild Goose Festival and a Nearby BBQ Pit at 4:57 AM

4:57 AM. I'm sitting in the dark next to the BBQ pit of the restaurant...

June 25, 2014

Why I Go To Church With the Dude Lebowski

Then again, if I only wanted to attend a church that was good, true and...

June 24, 2014

Repentance Backed Up With Action Can Change Reality

Mom and Dad (Edith and Francis Schaeffer) in L'Abri 1979 "The very fabric of the...

June 19, 2014

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to my Execution for Heresy…

I’d been writing novels and literary nonfiction for twenty years before I dared to write...

June 12, 2014

Religion News Service Gives Me A (NICE) BOOST!

Atheist or believer? Frank Schaeffer is a bit of both By Kimberly Winston Show caption Frank...

June 10, 2014

The Millionaire Authors Who Went Against Amazon in Support of the Giant Publishers Are a 1% Elite Hurting the Little Guy– Me and Other Mid-List Authors

As anyone who has been reading my HuffPost blogs knows I'm "of the left." So...

June 08, 2014

Why Do So Many Evangelicals Seem to Fear an Honest Discussion? Why the Trend to Dismiss Rather Than Engage?

Here's the level of discourse related to a conservative answer to my new book WHY I...

June 07, 2014

Jesus hung out with whores

Here is an excerpt from WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give...

June 05, 2014

My spring 2014 art show of new work is now live on my site, here you go

I have been painting this spring. Here is the work. I paint what is in...

June 03, 2014

Religion Dispatches Gives “Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God” A Rave Review!

JUNE 3, 2014 REVIEW June 3, 2014 My Kind of Atheist By PETER LAARMAN By now...

June 01, 2014

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” in a price range anyone can buy

I Have Decided to Lower the Kindle Price from $4.99 to $2.99 and put my...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

10,000-plus people downloaded my book FREE on Kindle in the last 48 hours! If that’s you…

10,000-plus people downloaded my book FREE on Kindle in the last 48 hours! If that's...

May 30, 2014

THANK YOU Benjamin L. Corey FOR GIVING ME A CHANCE to EXPLAIN MY FAITH!

When Two Formerly Fundies Chat: My Video Interview With Frank Schaeffer (and get his new...

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