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June 2014

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 22, 2014

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is like Some Mafia Thug, Actually Worse

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's actions of late remind me of Season 6 of The Sopranos....

June 20, 2014

Watch My Latest on MSNBC Huckabee uses MLK to justify LGBT discrimination

Watch my latest on MSNBC Click on this LINK … Frank Schaeffer is a...

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 14, 2014

“Iraq in Flames” What the F#@! Happened? Answer: Idiot Evangelicals and The Fool They Elected Broke Iraq and the Middle East and the World. Period.

My Marine son volunteered to serve when President Clinton was still in office. Clinton’s greatest...

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 09, 2014

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Was Flamingly Gay– Deal With It

Evangelical icon and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer is arguably the greatest moral giant to emerge from...

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 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...

May 30, 2014

FREE Amazon Kindle Promotion NOW! “Click” on Your Free Copy of my new book Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God

FREE, FREE, FREE Amazon Kindle Promotion NOW! "Click" on Your Free Copy of my new...

May 28, 2014

Win A Prize For The Best Effort to Make My May 30-31 Two-Day Kindle FREE BOOK Promotion A HUGE Success!

First you need to go to my Facebook Fan Page and "like" it and "join"...

May 28, 2014

48 HOURS OF FREE! PLEASE HELP ME DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

WILL YOU HELP ME DO THE IMPOSSIBLE? Will you help me spread the word on my...

May 25, 2014

In Some Sort of Weirdly Wonderful First Rage Against the Minivan AND Alternet BOTH Run (Wildly Different) Excerpts From My New Book

Kristen Howerton founder of Rage Against the Minivan "Why Jesus Would Have Hated Most Modern...

May 22, 2014

Rubio is a Traitor to the Human Race & a Willful Fool Pandering to Stupid Evangelicals by Denying the Evidence on Climate Change

Face it: White aging evangelicals are the backbone of the Republican Party. Face it: Literal...

May 17, 2014

10 Dumbest Religious Billboards Ever?

Here are some of the stupidest religious/fundamentalist billboards ever. How would you rate them? Frank...

May 13, 2014

The SOJO Review of ‘Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God’

The God-Believing Atheist: A Q&A with Frank Schaeffer by Christian Piatt 05-13-2014 | 9:44am Share...

May 11, 2014

One Reason Atheism Doesn’t Really Answer Anything

Most people don’t really want to live only according to narrowly defined material facts. Most...

May 05, 2014

Happy 5th! Patheos Just Ask Alicia Keys How You Changed My Life

The other day I checked my Twitter followers. I did that because Alicia Keys -- ...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

The War on Traditional Notions of Narrative, Order and Beauty Has Failed

The war on traditional notions of narrative, order and beauty has failed. Representational, story-driven movies...

April 29, 2014

It Never is About Church– It’s Always About Character

Detail from my painting, "Seeing Love Clearly." Where we go to church, or whether...

April 11, 2014

Brian D. McLaren, Phyllis Tickle & Ron Dart on Frank Schaeffer’s WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD How to Create...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

My NPR/Terri Gross “Fresh Air” Interview on Abortion/Pro-Life/Politics

"My dad was shocked by the hatred in the religious right..." Here's my "Pro-Life —...

March 21, 2014

This Nun Made Me Cry: WATCH THIS!

"Sister sister! You've never seen a nun shut it down like this one," As noted...

March 20, 2014

Does the Jacket Copy of my New Book Work For You? WHY I’M AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD

I have a book about to come out this spring--May 15. Here's the back cover...

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