“Maybe our blindness started when the first Christians didn’t believe what Jesus told them about the kingdom of God: “Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21, emphasis… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The last thing I crave is to be exposed to the sort of grandstanding preachers that so many evangelical churches seem to breed with… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“I don’t view you as a market segment. I view you as my partner, an individual reader, a friend as complex and maybe even… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“We are part of nature yet we have decided to be nicer than nature.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Some people who helped lead that movement—including me—were very much like Hunka Munka and Tom Thumb. We lived lives informed by beliefs that were… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“who is actually delusional? Who is actually following Jesus: fundamentalist Christians rejecting gay men and lesbians’ right to marry, or atheist humanists treating men… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Labels don’t mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible and ignored… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“education and money. I go to church with the kids for the same reason Genie and I play our grandchildren classical music and litter… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“If we wait for correct ideas to save us—theological or otherwise—we’ll never be saved, even from ourselves.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure. — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
