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March 2017

March 27, 2017

Here’s What I’ve Learned from the Experiences Offered by Life In General, And by Fatherhood and Grandparenthood In Particular: Beauty Matters More than Career

Once during a brief visit home while I was on a particularly travel-filled and arduous...

January 2017

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...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

Are you (like me with my grandchildren) trying to get the good stuff into their heads first ahead of the marketing crap?

I need something from you... please I want your voice in my new book. Please...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

3 Selfie Art Videos Explaining/Showing My Paintings re Life, Flowers, God and Grandchildren

Here are 3 "selfie" videos I just took in my garden and studio showing and...

July 2015

July 18, 2015

U2 Becomes Cirque du Soleil Meets George Balanchine Rock as a Surgical Strike

Last week my granddaughter Amanda (22), and me watched U2 do their stuff in Boston...

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...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

What Prayer Means to Me

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

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...

November 2014

November 22, 2014

The Best Talk I Gave

Here's the best talk I've ever given. Please share!!! TO WATCH CLICK on THIS...

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...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

The impact of Jesus’ feminism has yet to be fully realized

The impact of Jesus’ feminism has yet to be fully realized. Even famous women receive...

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...

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 15, 2014

Look into the faces of the people who know you best. Be honest with yourself about what’s written there, and you will know yourself– the Wild Goose Video Clip

Here's a 5 min clip from a 45 min talk... Couldn't make the Wild Goose Festival?...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Love Through the Eyes of Christ — Easter

I was shuffling forward in the communion line, with my five year old granddaughter...

January 2014

January 14, 2014

One Look at American Christians and I Figure Jesus Must Have Hated Women– Right?

My friend’s attitude pissed me off. I shouted, “Are you kidding me? Taking care of...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

I Loved Christmas but Hated God for Screwing It Up

Edith and Francis Schaeffer AKA Mom and Dad Christmas for me will always be toxic...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Goodbye Mom, Edith Schaeffer 1914 – 2013 RIP

Edith Schaeffer 1914 – 2013 RIP My mother Edith Schaeffer died today. She was the...

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 13, 2012

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

I have seen the power of forgiveness work to heal my former religious “certainties.” (I...

September 12, 2012

The Blessed Hypocrisy “Method Acting” of Salvation PART 3 (of 4)

My wife Genie has been my “Jesus tutor.” She's very much like the Virgin Mary,...

September 11, 2012

The Blessed Hypocrisy “Method Acting” of Salvation PART 2 (of 4)

It’s tempting to rationalize my bad behavior as “caused” by wrong ideas. But blaming wrong...

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