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August 2013

August 26, 2013

Please Read My NEW Book Or Jesus Will Hurt You! CLIP ONE

During the 17 years I've been working on And God Said, "Billy!" I've written and...

August 13, 2013

Let Me Explain My New Novel “AND GOD SAID, “BILLY!”

Let me explain my new novel "AND GOD SAID, "BILLY!" in this clip shot at...

August 13, 2013

Oo La La! Wild Goose Festival Turns a (BIG) Media Corner

I have an emotional and spiritual -- not to mention personal -- stake in the...

July 2013

July 17, 2013

Here’s What I’m Speaking on at the Wild Goose Festival

  Here's what I'll be speaking on at the Wild Goose Festival. Please join me....

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Anti-Gay Bigots Unite!

When frightened evangelical and Catholic anti-gay bigots like Franklin Graham and the so called Catholic...

June 19, 2013

Gays Are Dangerous to Christians– Really! (Watch)

Gay men and women are persecuting Christians. The Pope says there is a secret gay...

June 02, 2013

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs– Selfish or Just Stupid?

Are the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs selfish, stupid or just too young and uneducated about history,...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

Yesterday 1.8 million British Muslims Did NOT Hack Anyone to Death

Yesterday 1.8 million British Muslims did NOT hack anyone to death. Yesterday 61 million people...

May 19, 2013

Pro-Choice Yet Pro-Life?

Can one be pro-life and yet pro-choice? More and more people are saying that they...

April 2013

April 27, 2013

Frank Schaeffer and Eric Elnes on Convergence Christianity

Eric is an old enemy of mine. Now we agree that we can fix what...

April 11, 2013

Frank Schaeffer: My Journey Out of the Religious Right (Lecture)

Please watch this Now Watch the Q & A Here... 

April 04, 2013

Watch this great 10 min video on mimetic theory & help support Preaching Peace

Watch this great 10 min video from Michael Hardin on mimetic theory & help support...

March 2013

March 17, 2013

Pope Francis and the Far Right Counterattack

Here's a guest column "Is Pope Francis a Fraud?" on the new pope by Andrew...

March 10, 2013

# IX Commandment cont…

IX: Never forget you owe it to your child to squarely face your own particular...

March 07, 2013

# VI Commandment Re Your Kids

VI: Never make the mistake I made by expecting that somehow a child will learn...

March 06, 2013

One Reason I Miss Christopher Hitchens

Please watch, think, comment. Thanks!

March 04, 2013

# 3 Commandment for Making a Happy Child Into Your Lifelong Friend

III: Never make sarcastic remarks to a child much less say snide or ironic things...

February 2013

February 17, 2013

Catholic Ideas Are Becoming Marginal to our Politics

  The sex abuse scandals that shadowed John Paul’s last years have become the defining...

January 2013

January 07, 2013

The War on Women’s Sexuality

By Tracy Clark-Flory    Women’s bodies have become a global battlefield. The brutal New Delhi gang...

December 2012

December 09, 2012

Good Riddance To The White Stupid Rube GOP!

  Here's my favorite Maureen Dowd column of all time! Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Lost Civilization By MAUREEN DOWD Published:...

December 01, 2012

The Night I Met Jesus: A (True) Christmas Story

Sometimes our learning curve is forced on us, if not by God then by God's...

November 2012

November 24, 2012

An Introduction to the Eastern Orthodox Church For the Curious (My List of Recommended Reading)

I'm often asked about the Eastern Orthodox Church since I have been going to a...

November 09, 2012

Frank — “wayward, traitorous prince” (NYT) — Schaeffer 2013 Speaking Tour (Call Me I’ll Speak to Your School, Church or Group)

I’m putting together my 2013 speaking schedule. If you’d like me to speak to your...

November 07, 2012

Do Christians Have Something Better To Do Than Spending the Next 4 Years Hating and Lying About President Obama The Way They Did For The Last 4 Years?

On the morning after the reelection of President Obama American Christians of a conservative-to-far-right bent...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Does Being A WHITE Evangelical Make You Politically Stupid or Is It That Only Stupid People Become WHITE Evangelicals 73 Percent of the Time?

According to polls 73 percent of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney. If...

October 22, 2012

Billy Graham Endorses Romney’s Secret Conversion to Islam — Says “At Least He’s Not a Homosexual!”

    Meanwhile in the alternative USA somewhere on a planet far away and not so long...

October 12, 2012

Evangelical Sexy Virginity Panties For Jesus… and Romney

And so it's come to this: the American evangelical religious establishment is busting a gut...

October 01, 2012

Jesus Could Be Their Candidate and the Republicans Would Still Lose

Note: This article was first posted on the front Politics page of the Huffington Post...

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 24, 2012

Hey, Hey Christianity Today THIS is What a Movie Review Looks Like (“Hellbound? Reviewed in Variety)

From Variety Posted: Sun., Sep. 23, 2012, 7:43pm PT New U.S. Release Hellbound? (Documentary --...

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