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November 2014

November 25, 2014

“I am waiting to die. I am not hopeless, just completely ignorant about what to do spiritually” 4 Ex-Fundamentalists Tell Me Their Stories

"I am waiting to die. I am not hopeless, just completely ignorant about what to...

November 24, 2014

Give me 56 MIN and I’ll (Maybe) Give You Your Faith in Jesus Back (WATCH My new Talk)

Here's my new talk I just gave at the wonderful Colorado Springs Library. Will you...

November 24, 2014

This Thanksgiving Share Your Story with Me on my Facebook Page about Your Deliverance from Fundamentalist Certainty & I’ll Publish It

Go to my Facebook Page at and tell me about what happened to you in...

November 22, 2014

“The Empathy Time Bomb” My New NPR Interview

My latest National NPR interview "The Empathy Time Bomb" please listen and share... CLICK HERE...

November 22, 2014

The Best Talk I Gave

Here's the best talk I've ever given. Please share!!! TO WATCH CLICK on THIS...

November 20, 2014

“Here’s the Most Horrible Phrase in the English Language: ‘How have you grown in the Lord lately?'” Gay, Proud and Liberated A Reader of Mine Speaks Out

"Any sexual hangups I may have postponed were now thrown to the wind. I was...

November 20, 2014

Rape

"Lisak's findings upended general presumptions about campus sexual assault: It implied that most incidents are...

November 17, 2014

Why Evangelicals Need Christian Dildos

"At My Beloved's Garden, we provide a safe non-pornographic place to shop for all your...

November 15, 2014

How My Dad and I Helped Create the Tea Party GOP and Terrorist Extremism

The 1970s Evangelical antiabortion movement that Dad (Evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer), C Everett Koop (who...

November 14, 2014

Many Evangelical Leaders Are Such SOB’s– What Are They Hiding?

Are Franklin Graham--and/or the 13 Evangelical leaders who wrote to Obama asking to be allowed to...

November 13, 2014

Please Do Me a HUGE Favor

Please Do Me a HUGE FavorGo to your local Barnes&Noble and buy my new book...

November 13, 2014

My “Morning Edition” NPR Interview ( Please take the short 9 minutes this interview takes and join me as I explain my book)

Here's my new NPR interview about my new book. Please take the short 9 minutes...

November 09, 2014

I have a nagging question for my atheist friends: if we’re nothing, why bother to convince us of our nothingness? Who cares?

Today’s secular science of human insignificance inspires its own theology. This secular theology assigns...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Religious Trauma Syndrome and/or How Dr. Dobson, Billy Graham, Bob Jones, Christianity Today, Wheaton College et al, Do More Harm than Good

In my book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give...

October 30, 2014

Apple CEO Tim Cook “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay”

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out as gay in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek where he said "So...

October 27, 2014

Frank Schaeffer v. Texas (The Interview) “From Francis Schaeffer to Christopher Hitchens”

Luke Norsworthy Search SKIP TO CONTENT ABOUT LUKE NEWSWORTHY WITH NORSWORTHY PODCAST FRANK SCHAEFFER: WHY...

October 22, 2014

For All My Sisters Who Might Feel Like Giving Up in This Stinking Misogynistic Pit We call the World

There are women reading this who have known despair, will know despair or are in...

October 21, 2014

“The god of the church had been made small and placed in a box…”

My new book is now in bookstores. Barnes & Noble has stocked it in big...

October 15, 2014

Welcome to Gun-Mad Utah: “You have 24 hours to cancel Sarkeesian’s talk … Anita Sarkeesian is everything wrong with the feminist woman, and she is going to die screaming like the craven little whore”

Feminist games critic cancels talk after terror threat Anita Sarkeesian cancels talk at Utah...

October 14, 2014

As we Head into the November Elections, the Ebola Outbreak is a Godsend for Republicans, Evangelicals, Racists and the Tea Party

Let’s be honest as we head into the November elections to Christian Republicans in the grip...

October 12, 2014

When I’m in a Shit Motel on Book Tour Missing my Wife and Grandchildren I (Sometimes) Wish My Dad Had Been a Thief like the Rest of the Big Time Evangelical Leadership

(A New Eden Oil on canvas 18 x 18 by Frank Schaeffer) Why couldn't my father Francis Schaeffer...

October 11, 2014

Forbes Magazine Publishes 2 Articles on Bart Campolo and Me

"Frank Schaeffer" Daily update ⋅ October 11, 2014 NEWS Forbes How Frank Schaeffer Walked Away From Power To...

October 08, 2014

“Dear Frank, Thanks to you, as a Jew I can say that I am a follower of Jesus”

Who knew I'd write a book that would help a Jew connect more deeply with...

October 06, 2014

Is it Just Charisma magazine or are all Charismatic Christians Into Genocide?

Charisma magazine, the major media outlet for Pentecostal Christians--"empowering believers for a life in the Spirit"--published...

October 06, 2014

Facebook and My Book “It was a ‘god-send’ so to speak, for me”

Here's an ongoing exchange with some of my Facebook friends. Frank Schaeffer The verdict is in...

October 04, 2014

My Parents Stayed Married Because my Father Tearfully Apologized for Hitting Mom and then Worked to Curb his Violent Male Dominant (Calvinist-Fed) Temper

My parents stayed married because my father tearfully apologized for hitting Mom and then worked...

October 03, 2014

Embracing paradox helped me discover that religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure

My kaleidoscopic beliefs are fickle and motivated by desire, wishful thinking, and wanting to fit...

October 01, 2014

Christianity Today is scared of Peggy, Tony and Bart Campolo (and me) and wants to help evangelicals brainwash their children more effectively

Christianity Today is scared of Tony, Peggy and Bart Campolo and wants to help evangelicals brainwash...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Ironically this authentic vibrant refuge was across the street from the hate factory “church” Mars Hill Church

Last night I sang children’s songs with a group of children and adults with Intellectual...

September 09, 2014

Hooray for the Serendipitous Messy Exchange of Body Fluids!

"We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with...

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