“The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The public image of the leaders of the religious right I met with so many times also contrasted with who they really were. In public, they maintained an image that was usually quite smooth. In private, they ranged from unreconstructed… — 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
