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April 2017

April 15, 2017

My “Easter Sermon” and Video Rant: Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls…

Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls. Silicon Valley billionaires think they will live...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

Do Not Miss SNL’s Heart-wrenching Opening as Kate McKinnon returns as a Defeated Hillary Clinton With a Leonard Cohen Tribute to His “Hallelujah” on Saturday Night Live

(Photo YouTube) Kate McKinnon returned as Hillary Clinton to give an exquisite tribute rendition of...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

My 64 yr Take on the Inner Destruction of Evangelical “Faith” and Politics: WATCH the MOVIE “Let me be FRANK” for FREE NOW HERE TODAY

WATCH Follow Frank on Twitter www.twitter.com/frankschaeffer See Frank’s paintings Follow Frank on Facebook

August 2016

August 28, 2016

If a Former Extremist Right Winger Like me can Change and Work for Hillary– There’s Hope! Please Let Me Explain

I was one of the worst offenders driving the formation of the religious right in...

August 12, 2016

Here is Why I Got out of The Evangelical Movement (and maybe you should too…)

This is my best explanation about my journey away from the faith of my...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Take it From this Ex-Fundamentalist: Listen-up Bernie Worshipers (Seemingly Working to Elect Trump) There are No Political Messiahs

Please WATCH my 4 min "answer" (such as it is) to the Bernie Sanders...

June 2016

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...

June 04, 2016

HERE IS WHY I’LL VOTE FOR HILLARY, AND WHY YOU SHOULD TOO– Please! Watch! Please Pass On! Let’s Save America From the Casino FOOL!

Please watch this and save America and the world from the casino/fake college/bad steak/beauty pageant...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

TRUMP BEAT GOD: How Could Ted Cruz Have Lost When God Promised Him Victory? (Another Evangelical Fantasy Explodes)

(AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Ted Cruz was called by God to run for president....

April 2016

April 24, 2016

In Case You Forgot What a Great Man and President Obama is, WATCH

In this silly 2016 election cycle, remind yourself of what true leadership, kindness and intelligence...

April 19, 2016

Watch The Titanic Sink In Real Time In this Brilliant (Mesmerizing) Animated Recreation– And Ponder the Fate of the American Empire… and Your Own Mortality

Here is the most arresting 2H and 41 min you'll ever spend looking inside yourself....

April 05, 2016

Jesus (or C.S. Lewis) could have Saved Donald Trump from Going Down in History as a Loser/Joke– Too Bad Trump Never Read the BIBLE or the Chronicles of Narnia!

www.gutenberg.org Trump could have avoided being branded forever as a joke and loser, in short an...

January 2016

January 06, 2016

A Book That Speaks to Atheists and Religious Believers Alike

Please watch this 2 min video of my take on how atheism and faith can...

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...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

A Great KIRKUS Review for my New Book “Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God”

KIRKUS REVIEWS VOL. LXXXIII, NO. 19 | 1 OCTOBER 2015 By Rebecca Foster Frank Schaeffer,...

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 16, 2015

You’ll Feel Better about America, Joe Biden and Politics When you Watch Him With Colbert

(Photo credit CBS used by permission) I very much hope Joe Biden runs. Here's...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Meet David Barton — the Evangelical Quack “Historian” Exposed as the Fake He Is

David Barton is a dangerous fabricator of "facts" now used by the far right GOP

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...

July 05, 2015

If there were no “holy books” how much easier it would be to believe in God!

(The "Last Judgement" by Michelangelo, Courtesy the Vatican archive) If there were no “holy books”...

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 15, 2015

There is only one defense against the rising, worldwide, fear-filled fundamentalist tide engulfing all religions

My way of trying to encounter God within a church community may well be poison...

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...

June 12, 2015

Here is my NEW Summer 2015 Show of my Paintings… Please Take a LOOK

Here is my new Summer 2015 show of my paintings. Please visit my art site...

May 2015

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!...

May 09, 2015

NEW BOOK FREE TODAY “Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peace”

FREE BOOK for 48 Hours Starting Today MAY 9-11 Free Kindle Reading App Anybody can...

April 2015

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...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

If I Was Still an Evangelical, I’d Want to Be Tony Kriz (Blessed be Tony!)

No, I don't write books about God like Tony does. And I'm persona non grata on...

February 10, 2015

What Prayer Means to Me

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

February 07, 2015

The Actual Gospel of Jesus Christ

As the reputation of Christianity has been deformed once in a while we should take...

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