Frank Schaeffer
Author
Description
The best-selling author of Voices from the Front presents a revealing memoir that recounts his childhood as the sons of evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer, his role in promoting the anti-abortion movement, and the crisis of faith that resulted in his embrace of a secular lifestyle.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010, c2009
Description
Frank Schaeffer has a problem with Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Dennett, and the rest of the New Atheists-the self-anointed "Brights." He also has a problem with the Rick Warrens and Tim LaHayes of the world-the religious fundamentalists. The problem is that he doesn't see much of a difference between the two camps. As Schaeffer puts it, they "often share the same fallacy: truth claims that reek of false certainties. I believe that there is an alternative...
3) Zermatt
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's hilarious and ultimately moving young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a coming-of-age story that takes readers even deeper into the heart of his tortured, fundamentalist family.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Bestselling author Frank Schaeffer offers a passionate political, social, and lifestyle "blueprint" for changes millions of us know are needed to rebalance our work lives with thriving relationships: Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy. Even before everything was disrupted by COVID-19 (not to mention by Trump), millions of Americans were already questioning capitalism's "values." We were already challenging the idea that...
Author
Pub. Date
c1982
Description
In this powerful indictment of secular hypocrisy, Franky Schaeffer shows how our supposedly neutral society ridicules, ignores and rejects the Christian point of view about morality, truth, science and almost every other area of life. There is a sad myth going around today the myth of neutrality. An explosive book a brilliant expose of secular hypocrisy and a moving challenge to Christian faithfulness.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God, an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts. He writes as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies of an angry God and the atheist vision of a cold, meaningless universe....
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This anthology collects original and previously published pieces about leaving Christianity. Examining the intersections of queerness, spiritual abuse, loss of faith, and the courage needed to leave one's religious community, these two social critics use a diverse collection of personal essays by apostates and survivors of religious trauma to boldly address the individual experiences and systemic dysfunction so common in conservative churches.
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