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(0)Frank Schaeffer
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
2) Sex, Mom, and God: A Religiously Obsessed Sexual Memoir (or a Sexually Obsessed Religious Memoir)
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Mom was a much nicer person than her God. There are many biblical regulations about everything from beard-trimming to menstruating. Mom worked diligently to recast her personal-hygiene-obsessed God in the best light."
Alternating between laugh-out-loud scenes from his childhood and acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, bestselling author Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn...
3) Zermatt
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem.
It is 1966, and Calvin is fourteen, torn between his naturally volcanic sexual curiosity and a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced—and has to hide his five copies of Mad magazine in the attic. Ralph and Elsa Becker, Reformed
...5) Portofino
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
292 p ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Calvin is the son of a missionary family, and their trip to Portofino is the highlight of his year. But even in the seductive Italian summer, the Beckers can't really relax. Calvin's father could slip into a Bad Mood and start hurling potted plants at any time. His mother has an embarrassing habit of trying to convert "pagans" on the beach. And his sister Janet has a ski sweater and a miniature Bible in her luggage, just in case the Russians invade...
Author
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 144 p. ; 23 cm
Language
English
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....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses the current state of America and the culture of self-loathing exhibited by the conservative, religious right's pundits and explains why the author attributes it all to sex, based on his own upbringing.