The Blessed Hypocrisy “Method Acting” of Salvation PART 1 (of 4 Parts)
In the world of wishful delusion, prayer “changes” us. In reality we’re stuck on this blue flyspeck in space on the edge of a cyclical multi-universe no one understands. In the context of the fraction...
View ArticleWho Needs This God Nonsense?
And yet, here I am telling my four-year-old granddaughter Lucy that God made the rock she just asked about. We’ve climbed up on this granite outcropping surrounded by water and reeds on the marsh...
View ArticleWhat my Parents Never Seemed to Have Done is Consider that the Bible Contains...
When my busy dad Francis Schaeffer and I spent time alone together, I discovered a quiet and humble man who seemed sadder than he was angry while struggling to conform his personality and natural...
View ArticleWhy I’m Not an Athiest: My Online Video Course is Launched by CHURCH NEXT
“Why I Am Not an Atheist” with Frank Schaeffer By Frank Schaeffer Is atheism a belief system in itself? Author and speaker Frank Schaeffer says yes. And in this course he explains why belief in Christ...
View ArticleIt Never is About Church– It’s Always About Character
Detail from my painting, “Seeing Love Clearly.” Where we go to church, or whether we go, isn’t the point. The point is who are we becoming? Does church help you to become the sort of person you’d...
View Article10 Dumbest Religious Billboards Ever?
Here are some of the stupidest religious/fundamentalist billboards ever. How would you rate them? Frank Schaeffer is a writer his new book is: WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD How to Create...
View ArticleThe Best Thing the NY TIMES has done Recently is Publishing the Gary Gutting...
The best thing the NY TIMES has done recently is publishing the Gary Gutting interviews. Here’s one you can’t miss… Posts published by Gary Gutting THE STONE JUL 8 7:30 PMJul 8 7:30 pm 42 Does...
View ArticleJesus Was Not a “Bible Believer” let Alone an Evangelical
Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity that’s used as a trade-marked product to sell religion. Jesus didn’t...
View ArticleI would not have burned in hell for sleeping with the many women I’ve looked...
Ironically, although Mom and Dad may have been deluded by their fundamentalist certainties, I am mostly at peace in my home where my grandchildren Lucy (5), Jack (4) and I play Botticelli because I was...
View ArticleTo Some Atheists and Christians Alike the Phrase “I’m an atheist who believes...
Why do you think so many atheists seem so evangelistic? They even sometimes speak of their moment of “de-conversion” as a flip-side to the so-called born again experience. If life teaches us anything...
View ArticleA Book That Speaks to Atheists and Religious Believers Alike
Please watch this 2 min video of my take on how atheism and faith can co-exist. Thanks! Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create...
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