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July 2014

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...

July 14, 2014

Christians’ Constitutional Religious “Right” to Discriminate and Abuse Post-Hobby-Lobby, Wheaton and Gordon

Q: What kind of mental breakdown causes parents to pack a six-year-old girl off to...

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....

July 08, 2014

Gordon College Believes That Religious Liberty is the Right to Persecute Gays or as Westboro Puts it “FAG MARRIAGE DOOMS NATIONS”

“FAG MARRIAGE DOOMS NATIONS,” says one picket sign from the infamous Westboro Baptist Church....

July 04, 2014

Wheaton College Becomes a Tool of the Far Right Obama-Haters and Seals the Fate of the Evangelical Community’s Reputation for a Generation

I had my first deep wet kiss with a woman at the evangelical establishment bastion...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

A Wild Goose Book Launch: “Please Ask God to Make You Grow Old Slowly”

The Rev. Frank Schaefer (author of "Defrocked") meets Frank Schaeffer (author of "Why I Am an Atheist...

June 27, 2014

Live From the Wild Goose Festival and a Nearby BBQ Pit at 4:57 AM

4:57 AM. I'm sitting in the dark next to the BBQ pit of the restaurant...

June 25, 2014

Why I Go To Church With the Dude Lebowski

Then again, if I only wanted to attend a church that was good, true and...

June 19, 2014

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to my Execution for Heresy…

I’d been writing novels and literary nonfiction for twenty years before I dared to write...

June 12, 2014

Religion News Service Gives Me A (NICE) BOOST!

Atheist or believer? Frank Schaeffer is a bit of both By Kimberly Winston Show caption Frank...

June 10, 2014

The Millionaire Authors Who Went Against Amazon in Support of the Giant Publishers Are a 1% Elite Hurting the Little Guy– Me and Other Mid-List Authors

As anyone who has been reading my HuffPost blogs knows I'm "of the left." So...

June 08, 2014

Why Do So Many Evangelicals Seem to Fear an Honest Discussion? Why the Trend to Dismiss Rather Than Engage?

Here's the level of discourse related to a conservative answer to my new book WHY I...

June 07, 2014

Jesus hung out with whores

Here is an excerpt from WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give...

June 03, 2014

Religion Dispatches Gives “Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God” A Rave Review!

JUNE 3, 2014 REVIEW June 3, 2014 My Kind of Atheist By PETER LAARMAN By now...

June 01, 2014

I Have Decided to Lower the Kindle Price from $4.99 to $2.99 and put my new book “Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God” in a price range anyone can buy

I Have Decided to Lower the Kindle Price from $4.99 to $2.99 and put my...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

10,000-plus people downloaded my book FREE on Kindle in the last 48 hours! If that’s you…

10,000-plus people downloaded my book FREE on Kindle in the last 48 hours! If that's...

May 30, 2014

THANK YOU Benjamin L. Corey FOR GIVING ME A CHANCE to EXPLAIN MY FAITH!

When Two Formerly Fundies Chat: My Video Interview With Frank Schaeffer (and get his new...

May 28, 2014

Win A Prize For The Best Effort to Make My May 30-31 Two-Day Kindle FREE BOOK Promotion A HUGE Success!

First you need to go to my Facebook Fan Page and "like" it and "join"...

May 28, 2014

48 HOURS OF FREE! PLEASE HELP ME DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

WILL YOU HELP ME DO THE IMPOSSIBLE? Will you help me spread the word on my...

May 25, 2014

In Some Sort of Weirdly Wonderful First Rage Against the Minivan AND Alternet BOTH Run (Wildly Different) Excerpts From My New Book

Kristen Howerton founder of Rage Against the Minivan "Why Jesus Would Have Hated Most Modern...

May 17, 2014

10 Dumbest Religious Billboards Ever?

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

May 13, 2014

The SOJO Review of ‘Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God’

The God-Believing Atheist: A Q&A with Frank Schaeffer by Christian Piatt 05-13-2014 | 9:44am Share...

May 11, 2014

One Reason Atheism Doesn’t Really Answer Anything

Most people don’t really want to live only according to narrowly defined material facts. Most...

May 05, 2014

Happy 5th! Patheos Just Ask Alicia Keys How You Changed My Life

The other day I checked my Twitter followers. I did that because Alicia Keys -- ...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

The War on Traditional Notions of Narrative, Order and Beauty Has Failed

The war on traditional notions of narrative, order and beauty has failed. Representational, story-driven movies...

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...

April 17, 2014

My Guest Columnist Today is the Prime Minister of the UK– A World Leader (Who Fought to Legalize Gay Marriage) Talks About His Christian Faith

Prime Minister David Cameron writing on why "My Christianity compels me to make a difference."...

April 16, 2014

Love Through the Eyes of Christ — Easter

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

April 11, 2014

Brian D. McLaren, Phyllis Tickle & Ron Dart on Frank Schaeffer’s WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD How to Create...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

I’m on Tour With “American Jesus” Opens Tonight at the Brattle Harvard Square

New England Premiere! I'm on tour with American Jesus-- first stop tonight in Boston. Join me...

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