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March 2013

March 02, 2013

My “Twelve Commandments” of Happy Parenting

If I could have one wish, it would be to get a parent do-over knowing...

February 2013

February 17, 2013

Catholic Ideas Are Becoming Marginal to our Politics

The sex abuse scandals that shadowed John Paul’s last years have become the defining...

February 16, 2013

The Most Loathsome People in America

Take Sean Hannity-- Charges: Left the seminary upon realizing he could abuse, manipulate, and...

February 13, 2013

Kiss Original Sin Goodbye (For FREE One Day Only)

Tony Jones has done us all a HUGE favor. His new book A Better Atonement has just...

February 11, 2013

Phelps’s Granddaughters Leave Westboro Church

The act of leaving Westboro is as weird as the church itself. Sometimes it’s...

February 08, 2013

Progressive Christianity Is As Broken As Evangelicalism: Here’s How to Fix It

I don't think there will be some new age of religion dawning in America anytime...

February 08, 2013

Ayn Rand’s Billionaires Are Taking Over

Thirty years after her death, Ayn Rand’s philosophy of selfishness and billionaire empowerment rules the...

February 06, 2013

The Final Defeat of the White Evangelical South: Fasten Your Seat Belts

In understanding the polarization and paralysis that afflict national politics in the United...

February 04, 2013

Jesus On Acid is Really Stupid Just Ask Chuck Hagel

Chuck Hagel, meet Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series. It represents everything that...

February 02, 2013

Crazy White Southern “Christians” Keeping America Safe for Hate

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January 2013

January 23, 2013

White, “Christian” and Treasonous: Who Will They Kill?

The battle over gun control has exposed a truth the mainstream media is apparently too...

January 23, 2013

American “Mainstream” Evangelicals Target Africa With Their “Gospel” of Hate

This video blog first aperred in the New York Times Please watch this...

January 14, 2013

The Loveliest Tribute to My Dad — Francis Schaeffer — I’ve Ever Read

I wrote about the real Francis Schaeffer in my memoir Crazy for God:...

January 07, 2013

The War on Women’s Sexuality

By Tracy Clark-Flory Women’s bodies have become a global battlefield. The brutal New Delhi gang...

January 03, 2013

America’s White Male Republican Evangelical Magical “Thinking” Racist Problem Is ALL of Our Problem

The American political process is being hijacked by a reckless, whining dangerous gang of psychologically...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

Peter Jackson May Look a Bit Like a Hobbit But Don’t Let That Fool You: He’s Hollywood All the Commercialized Way

The debacle that is the movie version of The Hobbit, part one, reminds me of...

December 21, 2012

Is Violence In The Media Free Speech Or Corporate Greed?

History tells us that this momentary moral pang will dissipate and the hunt for...

December 20, 2012

A Perfect Storm of Evangelical Idiots “Respond” to the Newtown Massacre

All that was needed to make the national tragedy of the killing of 20 children and 6...

December 20, 2012

The Republican Suicide Continues With Their Hysterical (Anti-Obama) Support For Child-Killing Guns

Add blind support for 30-round ammunition clips, military assault rifles and ownership of semiautomatic weapons,...

December 19, 2012

An Intelligent Conversation (at last!) on Our Culture of Violence Guns/Entertainment/Law and the Republicans

At last, an intelligent discussion on our culture of violence. Where is the Republican Party?...

December 17, 2012

I Love This Man

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December 16, 2012

It’s Time to Hate Mass Murder and the “Liberal” and “Conservative” Idiots Who Help It Happen

The horrible violence in a small school against OUR six-year-olds perfectly reflects the nature of...

December 09, 2012

Good Riddance To The White Stupid Rube GOP!

Here's my favorite Maureen Dowd column of all time! Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Lost Civilization By MAUREEN DOWD Published:...

December 06, 2012

There is NO Hell– God Just Couldn’t Be Meaner Than We Are

Is it any coincidence that the latest war of religion that started on September 11,...

December 04, 2012

IS GOD NICE?

Huff Post LIVE on God & Evil with Frank Schaeffer and others WATCH~~~~ ...

December 03, 2012

How to Keep Your Mate Even If You Are A Semi-Evolved Recovering Evangelical Controlling Bastard

Following her mother's example my first child Jessica returned love for my clumsy-to-bad-to-mean "fathering..."...

December 01, 2012

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

The Greg Rubottom guest column on abortion I posted here generated heated responses. Here are two unedited as...

December 01, 2012

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

Sometimes our learning curve is forced on us, if not by God then by God's...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

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

Here is "how" Genie and I have stayed married for 42 years. Listen, watch and...

November 24, 2012

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

I'm often asked about the Eastern Orthodox Church since I have been going to a...

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