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July 2014

July 28, 2014

To Understand the Public Relations Disaster that’s Engulfed Christianity Today Magazine, Gordon College & Wheaton College, You Need to Understand the Reconstructionist Movement

If the history of Christianity proves one thing, it’s that you can make the Bible...

July 26, 2014

What is an Evangelical church? An asylum for the easily led says Frank Schaeffer “the bull in your spiritual china shop”

What is an Evangelical church? An asylum for the easily led. Read this review of...

July 12, 2014

The New Brian McLaren Interview With Frank Schaeffer & Schaeffer Interviews McLaren — The 58 Min Video: WATCH!

"It's nice for a minute to not look like a cripple!" "I'm getting all sort...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Repentance Backed Up With Action Can Change Reality

Mom and Dad (Edith and Francis Schaeffer) in L'Abri 1979 "The very fabric of the...

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...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Does the Jacket Copy of my New Book Work For You? WHY I’M AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD

I have a book about to come out this spring--May 15. Here's the back cover...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

The Ten Things the GOP Won’t Thank President Obama For in 2014

Here's Ten Things the GOP Won’t Thank President Obama For in 2014... 1. Thank President...

November 2013

November 16, 2013

With “Citizens” Like the Evangelicals Rooting for Armageddon, America Needs no Traitors

As I explain in my book And God Said, "Billy!", exclusionary religion -- in other...

November 14, 2013

A Road-map for Spiritual Ethics

Ethics can evolve along with every area of human discovery, for instance, beyond ugly biblical...

November 12, 2013

What my Parents Never Seemed to Have Done is Consider that the Bible Contains a Paradox

When my busy dad Francis Schaeffer and I spent time alone together, I discovered a...

October 2013

October 09, 2013

Ted Cruz’ Father Is a Rabid Right-Wing Preacher– What More do You Need to Know About the “Why” of the Shutdown?

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (center) raises the hand of his right wing preacher father,...

October 06, 2013

House Republicans Tell Jesus “Go #—! Yourself!” and Then Rewrite the Beatitudes

Republican Congressional Family Values Committee Preparing to Rewrite the Beatitudes Blessed are the...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

“AMERICAN JESUS” — The Wounded Subculture of American Religion

There is something extraordinarily dangerous and ugly at the heart of American life: literalistic religion....

August 2013

August 19, 2013

If The Earth Could Talk

Dear Children, This is your mother speaking. Why don’t you call? You never talk to...

August 07, 2013

Liberals and Fundamentalists Have it Wrong: Faith is Not About “Correct” Facts

The reason so many liberal churches are empty or mostly populated with aging rationalists who...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHERE IS GOD?

“Night” is a book by Elie Wiesel about his experience in the German concentration camps....

June 2013

June 04, 2013

Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex

Here's a clip from my interview in "Jesus, Don't Let Me Die Before I've...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Why Go To Hell When You Don’t Have To?

Kevin Miller’s astonishingly good film Hellbound? is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and Youtube...

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...

February 2013

February 13, 2013

Kiss Original Sin Goodbye (For FREE One Day Only)

Tony Jones has done us all a HUGE favor. His new book A Better Atonement has just...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

IS GOD NICE?

Huff Post LIVE on God & Evil with Frank Schaeffer and others WATCH~~~~ ...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Why Evangelical Bible Idolatry Sucks and Why I Go to a Greek Orthodox Church Even Though It’s A Mess Too

Having elevated the Bible -- or at least the nicer bits that they like...

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 02, 2012

How the Evangelicals Doomed the Republican Party, God and (Maybe) America

By Frank Schaeffer Not all Evangelicals are Right-leaning Republicans. But according to polls...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Everything You Always Hated About Christianity Today Magazine (But Were Afraid to Say)

Once in a while you're handed a gift. I don't like Christianity Today magazine, and...

September 17, 2012

Burning Babies For Jesus

Listening to the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, hosted by the always wonderful...

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