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April 2015

April 27, 2015

Is Bill Maher a Bigot? The Answer is in His Movie “Religulous”

In the last few months there have been a chorus of anti-Bill Maher articles...

April 22, 2015

Was Jesus “Christlike?” — The Christian God has been twisted into something not unlike that of radical Islam

"The Christian God has been twisted into something not unlike that of radical Islam." So...

April 08, 2015

Why This Atheist Who Believes in God — Says the Nicene Creed and Sort of Means It

I say the Nicene Creed. I say the words “I believe” this and that. I...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

What Prayer Means to Me

"My grandchildren delight in entering into a grownup spiritual world as equals. Perhaps this...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

My FB Family Responded with 200+ Amazing Answers On What the Right, Left, Atheist and Religious Can ALL Agree On (The Results Are Refreshing, Hopeful and Kind)

"Wow Frank! This is freakin' awesome! I have been blown away by everything I've read...

January 08, 2015

We’d rather shop than live…

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

December 2014

December 31, 2014

The Only Hope for 2015– freeing us from the anguish of mortality

I say the Nicene Creed. I say the words “I believe” this and that. I...

December 25, 2014

My Christmas Day Thank You (Written 9:52 AM Today)

Dear God, I hope you exist mostly because I am so grateful for life and...

December 23, 2014

Here’s Why Atheists Can (Should?) Enjoy Going to Church this Christmas (Listen to my Interview on Faith and Atheism)

Listen to the Interview on why atheists can enjoy going to church by "clicking" HERE December 16, 2014 Host:...

December 20, 2014

Does Christmas Make You Sad?

Does Christmas Make You Sad? If so-- why? Me? Yes and No... I think that...

December 16, 2014

Who Knows-Bill Maher Might Even Lead George Bush to Christ Someday

Bill Maher seems to love Jesus more than most "evangelicals" do. Maher writes: If you’re...

December 02, 2014

Something You’ll NEVER See in ‘Christianity Today’ magazine: My Facebook Friends’ Answers to This Question: “How to help former evangelicals navigate their way out of despair and towards meaningful action?”

"Find a safe place. Come to understand just how unsafe and destructive evangelicalism is. Whether...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

I was ready to punch you out for raising questions I couldn’t answer so how nutty all these years later the only reason I even hope there’s a God and am reconciled to my son– is because of you

I vividly remember being lectured, harangued, insulted, corrected, and yelled at by a man who...

November 25, 2014

“I am waiting to die. I am not hopeless, just completely ignorant about what to do spiritually” 4 Ex-Fundamentalists Tell Me Their Stories

"I am waiting to die. I am not hopeless, just completely ignorant about what to...

November 24, 2014

Give me 56 MIN and I’ll (Maybe) Give You Your Faith in Jesus Back (WATCH My new Talk)

Here's my new talk I just gave at the wonderful Colorado Springs Library. Will you...

November 03, 2014

Is Christianity a Mental Illness?

"I just finished reading your article "Religious Trauma Syndrome" and it brought back memories of my jettisoning...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Religious Trauma Syndrome and/or How Dr. Dobson, Billy Graham, Bob Jones, Christianity Today, Wheaton College et al, Do More Harm than Good

In my book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give...

October 21, 2014

“The god of the church had been made small and placed in a box…”

My new book is now in bookstores. Barnes & Noble has stocked it in big...

October 06, 2014

Is it Just Charisma magazine or are all Charismatic Christians Into Genocide?

Charisma magazine, the major media outlet for Pentecostal Christians--"empowering believers for a life in the Spirit"--published...

October 06, 2014

Facebook and My Book “It was a ‘god-send’ so to speak, for me”

Here's an ongoing exchange with some of my Facebook friends. Frank Schaeffer The verdict is in...

October 04, 2014

My Parents Stayed Married Because my Father Tearfully Apologized for Hitting Mom and then Worked to Curb his Violent Male Dominant (Calvinist-Fed) Temper

My parents stayed married because my father tearfully apologized for hitting Mom and then worked...

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...

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...

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 30, 2014

Who is actually following Jesus: fundamentalist Christians rejecting gay men and lesbians’ right to marry, or atheist humanists treating men and women with love and dignity?

Who is actually following Jesus: fundamentalist Christians rejecting gay men and lesbians’ right to marry,...

August 28, 2014

I Will Do a FREE Book Group SKYPE Session Talk and Q&A For You: Here’s HOW

I Will Do a FREE Book Group SKYPE Session Talk and Q&A For You. Here's...

August 23, 2014

Dear Mark Driscoll Please Stay! Otherwise We Won’t Have a Way to Get People to Read Our Blogs!

Dear Mark Driscoll, Please don't go! Don't you know that there is an entire blog-sphere...

August 19, 2014

It is in the moments of inner stillness that come from humility and unknowing that we can sense the presence of God

Only after we start to admit our addiction to certainty can we begin to actually...

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....

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