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August 2014

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 31, 2014

The Actual “Pro-Life” Conspiracy That Handed America to the Tea Party & Far Religious Right (An Insider’s Perspective)

According to the New York Times (“Conservatives Hone Script to Light a Fire Over Abortion,”...

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 28, 2014

To Understand the Public Relations Disaster that’s Engulfed Christianity Today Magazine, Gordon College & Wheaton College, You Need to Understand the Reconstructionist Movement

If the history of Christianity proves one thing, it’s that you can make the Bible...

July 26, 2014

What is an Evangelical church? An asylum for the easily led says Frank Schaeffer “the bull in your spiritual china shop”

What is an Evangelical church? An asylum for the easily led. Read this review of...

July 26, 2014

“In this context and with a heavy heart, I hereby return my diploma to the Gordon College Board of Trustees”

Frank, Thanks again for offering to post this on Patheos.com. In addition to registering...

July 24, 2014

The Missionary Kid Goes on “Vacation” and Winds Up “Witnessing” to a VERY LOST Italian in a VERY SMALL Bathing Suit!

In 1947 my family moved to Switzerland from the U.S. as missionaries to the...

July 23, 2014

Gaza.. Ukraine.. Putin.. Israel.. Islam.. Christians.. Jews.. Evangelicals & God = Death

The Israelis are turning Gaza into a killing field. In the Ukraine Russian-backed thugs murdered...

July 22, 2014

The-God-Of-The-Bible’s Women-Management Plan is focused on Bodily fluids. To put it mildly HE has an Uneasy Relationship with Women! So Does Wheaton College

A Wheaton professor asking for the pill? To put it mildly the so-called God-Of-The-Bible has an...

July 22, 2014

Jesus Was Not a “Bible Believer” let Alone an Evangelical

Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham...

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 19, 2014

I haven’t the foggiest idea what prayer does– I do know that I can’t get through my day without praying…

Why does prayer feel both right and normal to me and crazy, too? The best...

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?...

July 14, 2014

Christians’ Constitutional Religious “Right” to Discriminate and Abuse Post-Hobby-Lobby, Wheaton and Gordon

Q: What kind of mental breakdown causes parents to pack a six-year-old girl off to...

July 12, 2014

The New Brian McLaren Interview With Frank Schaeffer & Schaeffer Interviews McLaren — The 58 Min Video: WATCH!

"It's nice for a minute to not look like a cripple!" "I'm getting all sort...

July 11, 2014

Dear Evangelical Establishment, I know you don’t trust or like me and I don’t blame you! But instead of just writing me off as wicked, for once you’d better listen up…

(A 1984 satirical magazine cover depicting "Franky" Schaeffer as a "kid" throwing mud at Christianity Today Magazine and...

July 10, 2014

Gordon College Expels Dietrich Bonhoeffer Because He’s Gay — Christianity Today Magazine Won’t Hire Him Either…

"Gordon College Expels Dietrich Bonhoeffer Because He’s Gay -- Christianity Today Magazine Won’t Hire Him Either!" is a...

July 09, 2014

One of My Concerns Self-Publishing My New Book Was that Publisher’s Weekly Would Ignore It– WELL They Just Did a Big Story Hooray!

Frank Schaeffer Goes It Alone with New Book By Kimberly Winston | Jul 09, 2014...

July 09, 2014

The Best Thing the NY TIMES has done Recently is Publishing the Gary Gutting Interviews– Here’s One you Can’t Miss!

The best thing the NY TIMES has done recently is publishing the Gary Gutting interviews....

July 08, 2014

Dear Mr. President, As the Executive Editor of Christianity Today Magazine I Demand A Religious Exemption For Burning Witches Our Freedom As Christians is at Stake (No Pun)

Fourteen religious leaders including Gordon College president D. Michael Lindsay as well as the executive...

July 08, 2014

Gordon College Believes That Religious Liberty is the Right to Persecute Gays or as Westboro Puts it “FAG MARRIAGE DOOMS NATIONS”

“FAG MARRIAGE DOOMS NATIONS,” says one picket sign from the infamous Westboro Baptist Church....

July 06, 2014

The Can and Can’t LIST of the Religious Right

Can carry a loaded gun in public Can’t get contraceptives Can go to the Creation...

July 04, 2014

Wheaton College Becomes a Tool of the Far Right Obama-Haters and Seals the Fate of the Evangelical Community’s Reputation for a Generation

I had my first deep wet kiss with a woman at the evangelical establishment bastion...

July 03, 2014

Watch Frank Schaeffer on MSNBC “Politics Nation” BLASTS Hobby Lobby/Santorum for Saying that U.S. is “Becoming Nazi Germany”

"The Supreme court is run by a bunch of GOP lackeys." Watch my latest blast...

July 01, 2014

Hobby Lobby Verdict is a Victory For Ultra-Right Roman Catholic Co-Conspirators With Chuck Colson’s Ghost

National Organization For Marriage co-founder Robert George with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Pope Francis...

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...

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