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2015-06-20T12:39:34-06:00

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Only Stupid White Scum (and Cowards) Fly the Confederate Flag

Last updated on: June 20, 2015 at 12:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

A picture from the ‘Last Rhodesian’ website appears to show Charleston shooting suspect Scum, God-hating, America-hating traitor and COWARD Dylann Roof. Photograph: internet Guardian The Confederate flag is STILL seen waving in front of the state capitol building in Columbia, South Carolina. Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images WHY? WHY? WHY? Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Available now on Amazon Follow Frank on Twitter www.twitter.com/frank_schaeffer See Frank’s paintings http://www.frankschaefferart.com/ Follow... Read more

2015-06-18T15:36:22-06:00

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Republican Lies About Obama Contributed to the Climate of Murder and Hate That Just Exploded in SC

Last updated on: June 18, 2015 at 3:36 pm By Frank Schaeffer

The white supremacist gunman told his black victims “you rape our women and you’re taking over our country” as he massacred nine people inside a historic African-American church in the southern city of Charleston, according to news reports. The killer said he thought blacks were trying to take over America. Then he killed the pastor and eight other “invaders.” ( This April 2015 photo released by the Lexington County Detention Center shows Dylann Roof, 21. Photo / AFP) The young suspect... Read more

2015-06-17T06:12:06-06:00

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Please Join me at the Wild Goose Festival (get 30% off your ticket too!)

Last updated on: June 17, 2015 at 6:12 am By Frank Schaeffer

I’d like to thank you for being a part of my life and thus part of my favorite event: the Wild Goose Festival this year! I donate my time to WG each year and pay my own expenses to get there as well as speak at WG, because I always am refreshed. This is my once-a-year church/cleanse/rejuvenate session. Join me please, maybe even buy me a beer! Will you help me spread this word? Please share the good news about... Read more

2015-06-16T09:56:58-06:00

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Watch! Enjoy! I’ve been singing this all day!

Last updated on: June 16, 2015 at 9:56 am By Frank Schaeffer

Here is a video composed and sung by my nephew Ranald Macaulay’s children. They live in the UK where he teaches and his wife is a musician. Their son Simeon came up with the first part to this song while driving in their car. Noah their other son, then made up the following verses in bed while going to sleep. Dorry (their very talented musical mother) then put it all together and made a video. Enjoy! I’ve been singing this... Read more

2015-06-15T05:26:45-06:00

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There is only one defense against the rising, worldwide, fear-filled fundamentalist tide engulfing all religions

Last updated on: June 15, 2015 at 5:26 am By Frank Schaeffer

My way of trying to encounter God within a church community may well be poison for others. We all bring our backgrounds with us. We’re all running from something. For instance, I know several people raised in the Orthodox Church who have fled to evangelical communities and found God there, or at least found a happier version of themselves. I know other people who share my sort of religious background and they can only find spiritual solace in gatherings of... Read more

2015-06-14T07:00:42-06:00

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Put it this way: church may be a son-of-a-bitch, but it’s my son-of-a-bitch!

Last updated on: June 14, 2015 at 7:00 am By Frank Schaeffer

Some of my secular (or lapsed ex-religious) friends don’t get why I “still” go to church. When they say, “Frank, God’s only in your head!” my answer is, “Yeah, whatever. What isn’t?” Or as the poet Yehuda Amichai writes in Gods Come and Go, Prayers Remain Forever: I say with perfect faith that prayers precede God. Prayers created God. God created man, And man creates prayers that create God who creates man. My question isn’t, “Did I create God who... Read more

2015-06-12T12:08:44-06:00

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Here is my NEW Summer 2015 Show of my Paintings… Please Take a LOOK

Last updated on: June 12, 2015 at 12:08 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Here is my new Summer 2015 show of my paintings. Please visit my art site HERE. If you’d like to buy a painting contact me. Thanks! I’ll have some of these with me at WILD GOOSE 2015! The theme of my summer show is transcendent resurrection of the spirit. This revival of hope is open to all– atheist, believer and agnostic. I believe in beauty as the intrinsic truth. Here is my small new contribution to that truth. My muses are... Read more

2015-06-08T06:48:23-06:00

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Notes To a Young Apostate

Last updated on: June 8, 2015 at 6:48 am By Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer Sent by Facebook Mentions Jun 1st, 12:36pm Thanks for keeping me posted, I’d like to post a selection of your work here. Would you send say 4 to 8 poems and also a paragraph of bio? Stephen Brown Jun 3rd, 3:43pm I would like that, Frank. I’ll send you something this evening. Frank Schaeffer Sent by Facebook Mentions Jun 5th, 1:46am thanks Stephen Brown Jun 7th, 11:16pm Frank, please forgive me for the delay – I found myself... Read more

2015-06-05T08:57:36-06:00

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Laura Hillenbrand did it, so just quit whining and write!

Last updated on: June 5, 2015 at 8:57 am By Frank Schaeffer

Someday I’ll show the movie Seabiscuit to my grandchildren Jack (4) and Lucy (6). On November 1, 1938, President Roosevelt and 40 million other people listening to the radio were captivated by a match race at the Pimlico Race Course between Seabiscuit, the underdog, and War Admiral. Seabiscuit was a small, insignificant horse, “the horse from the other side of the tracks who became a champion,” wrote one commentator. In the movie, a reporter reacting to the coast-to-coast publicity for... Read more

2015-05-30T16:25:15-06:00

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Is Porn Good, Bad or Some of Both– Depending on its Quality?

Last updated on: May 30, 2015 at 4:25 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Is Porn Good, Bad or Some of Both– Depending on its Quality? What do you think? Is porn a boon, a curse, nothing much or none of the above? Is porn to blamed? For… The breakup of relationships, violence, sexual pressure, body image problems for women and sexual addiction and dysfunction in men? …or Has porn helped couples? Participants of both sexes in a 2007 study of more than 600 Danish men and women aged 18-30 found that self-reporting adults said that... Read more

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