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April 2017

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...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

“Dear Frank, While I was in therapy recovering from the literal brain damage I experienced due to evangelical fundamentalism plus incest”…

Hi Frank, While I was in therapy recovering from the literal brain damage I...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO RESIST TRUMP?

(Photo YouTube) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO RESIST TRUMP? WATCH and then PLEASE COME...

January 14, 2017

From this to THIS… 2 Pictures Say it All About the Obama-to-Trump “Transition” (Russian Coup?) THANKS WHITE EVANGELICALS!

Celebrating the inauguration... Thanks Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr! From this family to... ...THIS! (Photos...

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...

September 11, 2016

9/11 SENT MY MARINE SON TO WAR. HE DID NOT FIGHT FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND RACISTS BUT FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM OF TOLERANCE AND EQUALITY TRUMP THREATENS. TRUMP IS A WORSE THREAT TO OUR VALUES AND DEMOCRACY THAN WERE THE 9/11 TERRORISTS.

9/11 SENT MY MARINE SON TO WAR. HE DID NOT FIGHT FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND...

September 06, 2016

Goodbye Evangelicals: “let me be FRANK” — here’s the trailer to the movie about my journey to truth from religious certainty addiction

Living the Questions, in association with Creatista Film and Photography, presents "let me be FRANK,"...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

IN NYC TRUMP JUST THRILLED RELIGIOUS RIGHT LEADERS GATHERED TO SUPPORT HIM (A Big FU to Jesus, and Amen to Racism, hate and bigotry!)

A pastor prays with Donald Trump at First Christian Church in Iowa last January. Jae...

June 21, 2016

ORLANDO? TRUMP? HATE? July 7-10 let’s PUSH BACK! so…please do NOT miss the Wild Goose Festival… now MORE THAN EVER!

will i see you there? click for tickets now Here is what I'll be...

February 2016

February 10, 2016

Open letter to all students contemplating going to an evangelical college “Don’t let them ruin your life”

photo from Before you choose a college such as Wheaton, Gordon or Liberty University consider this:...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

My Christmas greeting about love, urinary catheters, and the meaning of life

Please lend me 4 min, and WATCH Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book --WHY I AM...

November 2015

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...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

Adele – Hello WATCH Cry?

Adele is back, reason to rejoice... one child later and a new song... WATCH! Love,...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Susan Cottrell wrote True Colors to help LGBTQ people heal relationships with parents, family, others

“For anyone who has been spiritually hurt by the church, by parents or family members,...

September 14, 2015

Frank ” show us some other work!” OKAY

I get glimpses of your other work in your videos - and would like to...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

What Is BAD (and Good) Sex & Art?

Bad art and bad sex matter for the same reason that bad religion matters. A...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

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

I’d like to thank you for being a part of my life and thus part...

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...

June 14, 2015

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

Some of my secular (or lapsed ex-religious) friends don’t get why I “still” go to...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Join Me At the Wild Goose Festival (again) my Favorite Yearly Event Let’s Have a Beer (or three) Together!

Will you join me (again) at the Wild Goose Festival (my favorite event!) July 9-12...

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 25, 2015

Pro-Lifer Ready For Killing Kids for Religious Liberty and Jesus (Seriously)

And now this from h Prolife and prodeath, no kidding, as long as you're killing...

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 29, 2015

Q: Do you know why I (mostly) don’t ban trolls and people who seem to hate me from my FB page? Please Join my FB page thought experiment!

* Here is what I just posted on my FB page. Will you join this...

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 28, 2014

Does church help you to become the sort of person you’d pick to be stuck on a desert island with?

When I first joined the Greek Orthodox Church in 1990 I argued the finer points...

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...

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