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January 2016

January 06, 2016

A Book That Speaks to Atheists and Religious Believers Alike

Please watch this 2 min video of my take on how atheism and faith can...

October 2014

October 01, 2014

To Some Atheists and Christians Alike the Phrase “I’m an atheist who believes in God” is ‘Illogical’ and ‘Impossible’ because they are Narrow-Minded Literalists

Why do you think so many atheists seem so evangelistic? They even sometimes speak of...

August 2014

August 05, 2014

I would not have burned in hell for sleeping with the many women I’ve looked at longingly, but adultery would have ruined my marriage

Ironically, although Mom and Dad may have been deluded by their fundamentalist certainties, I am...

July 2014

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 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....

May 2014

May 17, 2014

10 Dumbest Religious Billboards Ever?

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

April 2014

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...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

Why I’m Not an Athiest: My Online Video Course is Launched by CHURCH NEXT

"Why I Am Not an Atheist" with Frank Schaeffer By Frank Schaeffer Is atheism a belief...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

What my Parents Never Seemed to Have Done is Consider that the Bible Contains a Paradox

When my busy dad Francis Schaeffer and I spent time alone together, I discovered a...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Who Needs This God Nonsense?

And yet, here I am telling my four-year-old granddaughter Lucy that God made the rock...

September 10, 2012

The Blessed Hypocrisy “Method Acting” of Salvation PART 1 (of 4 Parts)

In the world of wishful delusion, prayer “changes” us. In reality we’re stuck on this...

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