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May 2017

May 11, 2017

If Trump Was Your Cousin Would You Ever Ask Him to Care for Your Child or Grandchild Alone and Unsupervised For a Weekend?

We are being conditioned to chaos by Trump. Thank God he’s not caring for my...

May 02, 2017

Evangelicals Defend Trump, Fox News and Sexual Assault Because Evangelicals Would Rather “Protect the Lord’s Work” (And Their Own Legion of Predatory Abusers) Than Care For Victims

Institutions known for sexual assault (including child rape and spousal abuse) are mostly organizations closed...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Free: Read a sample chapter from my new forthcoming book “Letters to Lucy”

"Letters to Lucy" is a multimedia project I've worked on for 3 years. Now...

April 16, 2017

“How have you and you wife Genie stayed together for almost 50 years given that, quite frankly, Frank, you were once such an A-hole?”

"How can I make my relationships and my life work?" Hint: It isn't anything you'll...

January 2017

January 15, 2017

How will White American Evangelicals Follow Trump’s Moral Leadership? HINT: Their Daughters might want to become “golden shower” Russian hookers and their sons could become neo-Nazi Jew-haters

(Photo YouTube) Here are some suggestions for Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr. and the other...

January 08, 2017

For the next 58 minutes please let me rescue you from thinking about Trump and your problems and turn your mind to the real and most wonderful questions there are… WATCH and share. Thank you!

Jesus planted an empathy time-bomb. Let me tell you about it and take your mind...

October 2016

October 08, 2016

I have received hundreds of messages from people distressed by parents and friends supporting Trump asking “What can I say?” Here’s my favorite gutsy solution from a Facebook friend… (Read, Laugh, Cry)

Hi Frank- I just called my staunch Republican parents, and confronted them about the latest...

September 2016

September 25, 2016

The alphabet Trump will teach your kids

The new improved Republican Party alphabet Trump will teach your kids. Working to create a...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Watch The Titanic Sink In Real Time In this Brilliant (Mesmerizing) Animated Recreation– And Ponder the Fate of the American Empire… and Your Own Mortality

Here is the most arresting 2H and 41 min you'll ever spend looking inside yourself....

February 2016

February 11, 2016

Colbert Nails It On Just How Stupid Our Culture is About Nudity in ART– WATCH!

Here's Colbert at his best in the best and funniest clip I've ever seen on...

November 2015

November 04, 2015

Please Watch My 2 Min Vid Asking For You to Write me a Letter For My New Book For me to Publish

Will you watch this then help? I would love to hear from you at [email protected]...

November 04, 2015

Will you help me by writing something for me to include in my new book?

Dear Family, Will you help me by writing something for me to include in my...

November 02, 2015

Our Grandfather/Granddaughter Lucy & “Ba” Art/Icon Art Project

I've just launched a new show of icon art I collaborated with my 7 year...

July 2015

July 01, 2015

a 7-year-old first grader stands up to the religious right WATCH THIS CLIP

In this video clip Zea--a 7-year-old first grader--stands up to bully religious right. The argument...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

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

Here is a video composed and sung by my nephew Ranald Macaulay's children. They live...

May 2015

May 10, 2015

The Real Meaning of “Mother’s Day” (Yes, I’m a male 62-year-old MOM)

"Our shared experience of vulnerability erases the age and gender differences between the young...

May 10, 2015

Now over 3000 FREE downloads of my book Hurry Offer ENDS in 21 hours! Please tell your friends! Help me get to 10,000

Now over 3000 FREE downloads of my book. Hurry FREE Offer ENDS in 21 hours!...

February 2015

February 07, 2015

The Actual Gospel of Jesus Christ

As the reputation of Christianity has been deformed once in a while we should take...

February 03, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Ninety-eight Percent of Heaven’s Occupants are Embryos!

(Sleeping Putto, by Léon Bazille Perrault courtesy Wikipedia) "Ninety-eight percent of Heaven’s occupants are embryos," writes...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Please Be the First to Buy my KINDLE 36 page: “MY VERY PERSONAL HAPPY CHRISTMAS STORY: The wonderful yet toxic combination of Mom’s evangelical goodness, Jesus’ inevitable birthday”

BUY this 36 page story NOW for only $2.99 Click HERE OR with Kindle Unlimited Deliver...

October 2014

October 12, 2014

When I’m in a Shit Motel on Book Tour Missing my Wife and Grandchildren I (Sometimes) Wish My Dad Had Been a Thief like the Rest of the Big Time Evangelical Leadership

(A New Eden Oil on canvas 18 x 18 by Frank Schaeffer) Why couldn't my father Francis Schaeffer...

October 03, 2014

Embracing paradox helped me discover that religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure

My kaleidoscopic beliefs are fickle and motivated by desire, wishful thinking, and wanting to fit...

October 01, 2014

Christianity Today is scared of Peggy, Tony and Bart Campolo (and me) and wants to help evangelicals brainwash their children more effectively

Christianity Today is scared of Tony, Peggy and Bart Campolo and wants to help evangelicals brainwash...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

Hooray for the Serendipitous Messy Exchange of Body Fluids!

"We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

“This is what being raised in the southern Bible belt will do to you…If it is ok, I will share my head for the first time to anyone”

NOTE: If you come from an evangelical background and feel anguish you are not alone....

August 11, 2014

Switchfoot’s Album & Movie “Fading West” — It’s Grace in Action, Hope Crystallized, Damnation Canceled in Favor of Love…

I was just speaking at SoulFest (August 7-9). It's a music festival with evangelical roots. The band...

August 08, 2014

We Spend Lifetimes Striving to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace. Why?

It was a bright September day, clear, cool and perfect. My wife Genie, my grandchildren...

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 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 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...

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