Here’s proof Trump’s supporters are members of a cult, not thinking Americans: 79 percent of Republicans approved Trump’s sycophantic performance at the news conference with Putin. 85 percent deem the investigation of Russian intrusion into…
You can be rich and stupid. It has become increasingly obvious that the fortunes of the 1 percent haven’t grown through works alone. A confluence of larger factors — globalization, the quick uptake of new…
From McCain (R): “Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.” Or this from Arizona’s other senator, Jeff Flake (R): “I never thought I would see…
As the world rejoices, remember how Donald Trump and Stephen Miller really feel about brown children. Trump and Miller (the Jewish Nazi) Would Have Gladly Drowned the Brown Children in Thailand As the world rejoices,…
Vote Common Good Bus Tour, Sept. 6 – Nov. 6. Learn More. How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my new book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In…
I would ask Trump’s evangelical supporters, Was it ever about the children, or was it only about white children? There is nothing more abusive than ripping an infant from her mother’s arms and traumatizing that…
This new leg of my Road Trip took me to the beautiful mountain hamlet of Ouray, Colorado to speak at San Juans Summit, a gathering put together by Common Good Christians, a group of progressive…
If Republicans let Trump roll them by using innocent children as hostages, he will learn the lesson that brutality is the only key to getting what he wants– an all-white nationalist empathy-free zone for his…
ICYMI, I appeared this morning on AM Joy on MSNBC with Bishop William Barber and Bishop Michael Curry to discuss Jeff Sessions’ and Evangelicals’ use of the bible to justify the separation of children from…
If you’ve been following this new leg of my Road Trip, you know I recently travelled to the beautiful mountain hamlet of Ouray, Colorado to speak at San Juans Summit, a gathering put together by…
As you may know, I recently spoke at San Juans Summit, a gathering put together by Common Good Christians, a group of progressive faith leaders who want to reclaim their faith from the grip of…
I recently spoke at San Juans Summit, a gathering of progressive Christians who want to take back their faith, and their country, from the seizing jaws of the hypocritical evangelical right. What many people don’t…
If you saw my most recent video, you already know that my good friend Samir Selmanović, the Executive Director of Common Good Christians, invited me to speak this week at San Juans Summit, a gathering…
Please spend a few minutes to get to know my friend Samir Selmanović. Samir is the Executive Director of Common Good Christians and invited me to speak this week at San Juans Summit, a gathering…
I get lots of mail. Sometimes letters make me feel as if I’m not wasting my time. This is one and I’d like to share it with gratitude and with the permission of the author….
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Thom Hartmann to discuss the evangelical obsession with Donald Trump and the cynical manipulation of a lunatic fringe. Despite evangelicals’ best efforts to bring about the…
Americans are declaring themselves unaffiliated with organized religion. This trend is especially so among the under-30s forty percent of whom claim no connection to a religion. To understand why this opt-out of religion trend will…
Sarah Huckabee’s lies and Trump’s lies are catching up with them both. Huckabee now looks more like Stormy Daniels than a press secretary: just another porn star twisting in the wind. As the Washington Post…
White evangelicals grew up on a theology that trains people to be those who can’t tell the difference between reality and make-believe. They then opt for make-believe again and again because fantasy is kinder and…
The Fundamental Reason Trump Is President and the Only Real Answer to This Fool. Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Friday, April 27, 2018 What would we tell Lucy, our common ancestor, about what we have…
With white evangelicals’ help the GOP enjoys more power than at any moment since the New Deal. With all this power they have done nothing at all except give billionaires more money, white supremacists more…
Yes, it was white evangelical preachers who ran the KKK in the 1920s. Nothing’s changed. Now they love Trump. If evangelicalism ever wants to play a more positive role in social and political life after…
Evangelical leaders are meeting this week at Wheaton College to try and figure out post-Trump how to make evangelicalism respectable again. Good luck with that! You can’t advance Jesus’ vision of liberation by oppressing the…
A visitor from another planet – or perhaps an angel sent by the Lord to check in on the church – when figuring out what white American evangelicals are today might be slightly confused. If…
Trump has a lifetime of criminal activity to hide. The dumbest thing he ever did was run for president. He’s going down. How will the white evangelical leaders that talked their followers into voting for…
Evangelicals who won’t hold Trump the mobster accountable for the way he has lived, brutalized women and physically threatened countless people are choosing a toxic guilt-inducing way of thinking that – in time – will…
An authentic Christian democracy would be just what its label says: a form of democratic politics inspired by Christian values of inclusion, pluralism and freedom to – among other things – not be a Christian….
ICYMI, here’s my appearance this morning on AM Joy on MSNBC. Joy and I discussed how Stormy Daniels’ allegations have not stopped evangelicals from supporting Donald Trump. I also explain how Evangelicals have folded the…
Was Laura Ingraham always a crass bully or did she get that way by imitating the crass bully who faked his way into the White House? How does she justify this? She thinks all conservatives…
Why do evangelicals support Trump instead of the evolution of empathy that is best represented by the ethical watershed event of the teachings of Jesus? Because evangelicalism isn’t about facts, let alone true spirituality. It’s…
Trump embodies the worst of male sexual entitlement and rank misogyny. And white evangelicals put him and keep him in power. White evangelical Trump supporters are all that stands between this thug and the law….
We used to regulate how many media channels one person could own. We used to regulate monopolies. What happened? Google, Facebook, Amazon’s leaders talk about opening the world and creating a democratic culture but they…
The outrage over Facebook’s abuses comes from our growing realization that social media platforms aren’t just friendly places where like-minded people associate, but run by greed-driven immoral companies and leaders with an advertising business model…
When Facebook became a public company its childish founder exhorted his employees to “move fast and break things” – a teen-hacker’s trope. What didn’t occur to Zuckerberg is that liberal democracy was one of the…
The only relevant known fact about McCabe’s firing is that he is a key witness against Trump. Trump has launched a preemptive strike against the truth about his crimes. Trump also was able to be…
According to Jerry Falwell Jr., evangelicals have “found their dream president,” in Trump. That says something about the current quality of evangelical “dreams” not to mention character and beliefs. Whatever evangelicals are these days, they…
Delusional Illusion This is the Age of Delusional Illusion– Let Me Explain Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 Are you living in the midst of delusional Illusion? Discover my new book Letter to…
Psalm 118:22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. Psalm 118:22 Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Monday, March 5, 2018 Want to learn more about where we go from here as we…
For seven hours today, the remains of the evangelist Billy Graham will lie in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Why? Billy was a family friend but this is not appropriate. We aren’t Iran. We aren’t a…
For those of you who have been following the Road Trip for the last 6 months, I’d love for you to join me on a detour, because I have some amazing new friends I am…
Via Down With Tyranny Normal Americans aren’t excited that Scott Pruitt is moving rapidly top destroy decades of progress at the EPA. But last week, the Christian Broadcasting Network, a right-wing outlet, looked at it…
Via Worldview on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago The late Billy Graham’s influence went far beyond religious life. Worldview talks with writer and filmmaker, Frank Schaeffer, son of another evangelical giant, theologian, Francis Schaeffer. One of America’s…
In September 2012, the feature-length documentary Hellbound? was released in theaters across North America. I was one of the people interviewed joining a growing chorus of voices that were questioning the traditional view of hell…
The Meaning Of The Death Of My Family Friend — Billy Graham — In Franklin Graham’s and Trump’s America Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 We need a return to truth and…
What’s the best definition of a (in Trump’s words) “shithole country?” Maybe this: Any nation where teachers have to practice “lock down” drills with terrified children because their government won’t protect them from mass murder…
I recently had the opportunity to chat with historical theologian and author Randal Rauser and Premier Christianity magazine editor Sam Hailes on the Premier Christian Radio program “Unbelievable?” I think you’ll like this podcast. It…
“He always had guns on him,” a former classmate said of Nikolas Cruz, who had a history of problems. “Everyone predicted it…” except Trump, the NRA, the Republicans and the Gun Lobby who didn’t “predict”…
If you want to know whether Democrats will take back the House and/or Senate in November, just ask Russia. According to our Intel top brass they are at it again, and Trump is denying it…
At this point perhaps it might be easier if we just sort out which of Trump’s men HAS NOT been accused of beating women. It’s a short list. Trump’s administration is overflowing with men who…
ICYMI – Here’s my appearance this morning on AM Joy, discussing Evangelical Christians’ continued support of Trump and his cadre of serial abusers. And for what? “If God had wanted to send a test to…
Here’s a great (free) NEW outlet put together by an amazing young woman I met; Annafi Wahed, CFA, a Bangladeshi American with 5+ years of experience in financial services risk management and business development. Her experience…
America: We have a draft-dodger ordering up a self-aggrandizing military parade. Eisenhower saved the world and never ordered a parade. What’s wrong with this country? My son served in the Marine Corps and fought in…
I’m in New Orleans at the “Unrig the System” conference with lots of folks talking about ways to get big money out of politics and curb the power of corporations. I’ll be posting video interviews…
Democrats have a rational positive agenda you can find in white papers and ten-point-plans that no one in the real world reads. But if Democrats want to actually win in 2018 there’s only one issue…
Don’t want to sit through two hours of Trump, Fascism and Lies tonight? Why not join me on my Road Trip to Take Back the House in 2018 and meet the new faces of the…
ICYMI – Here’s my appearance this morning on AM Joy, discussing Evangelical Christians’ support of Trump and their willingness to put up with, it seems, anything, so long as it furthers their white supremacist revenge…
Despite his disgraceful life rampant with woman-abuse, lies and unfaithfulness Trump is faithful to his racist creed. Thus Trump embodies the religious right’s core racist values. They are sticking with him however many “other shoes”…
I recently traveled to Omaha to talk to a group about my new book, Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, and to screen a documentary made…
White Evangelicals can’t hide from what they did to America giving us Trump. He doesn’t hide his pettiness, bury his petulance, and distract us from his vulgarity and bigotry. He’s too needy an exhibitionist to…
By now sane Americans wouldn’t believe Sarah Huckabee if she said the sky is blue. To lie shamelessly to massage Trump’s swollen ego as your day job rates right up there with pimping child prostitutes….
Ego before country is Trump’s only motto. Let’s be clear: Trump is blackmailing America by threatening funding for children’s healthcare (CHIP), a government shutdown and mercy for the “Dreamers” — all because he can’t get…
Trump’s rise is a function of white America’s anxieties about maintaining power in a cosmopolitan and diverse world combined with a white billionaire’s far right Ayn Rand agenda. Nothing the GOP does can be understood…
Trump’s cruelty to the poor, his indifference to empathy, and his overt racism begs this question: Are there racial, social and economic gradations in the image of God? The only acceptable, only American and only…
White evangelicals take note: If Trump is president because of “God's will,” then your God must be a white trash, philandering, money-laundering, Putin-stooge, hate-filled, racist liar, too. White evangelicals take note: If Trump is president…
Will white evangelicals still send medical missionaries to help brown people living in Trump’s “shithole” countries? Do people in “shitholes” still deserve to hear about Jesus? The White House hasn’t responded yet to Trump’s “shithole…
Countryside Community Church will be screening Scott Griessel’s documentary about me, “Let Me Be Frank: The Traitorous Turnabout of an Evangelical Heir Apparent” on January 11 from 7-9 PM, with a Q&A to follow. If…
I only met Oprah once when I was on her show, grateful she’d read my work. Today I’m grateful she made me feel American again for a moment. Want to learn more about where we’re…
Trump isn’t the disease; he’s the symptom- of everything from the rise of evangelical fanatics to Fox News as the propaganda organ of the Republican Party, to the takeover of the national news distribution system…
How can I best describe my feelings during the Trump Era so far? I’m feeling suspended in time. How about you? I wish Trump would attack my new book “Letter to Lucy” too! About 250,000…
Who voted for Trump? “It’s not us!” Who stuck with Roy Moore? “It’s not us!” Who supports white bigot supremacists?’ “It’s not us!” so-say the so-called respectable evangelical leaders as they take to the editorial…
Before I introduce you to Jared Golden, I would like to take the opportunity to recap the year and say thank you. Like you, I am deeply concerned for our country, which is why I…
Only an anti-science ass would joke about needing “good old global warming” because of some cold weather. Then again that’s who Trump is: the ass in every class who thinks he’s smart while everyone else…
My Road Trip to Take Back the House in 2018 recently took me to California’s 25th Congressional District to meet with Katie Hill. Katie previously served as the Executive Director for the largest homeless services…
The Trump-shill Wall Street Journal gloats: “Democrats want to win back control of Congress and state capitals during next year’s elections but they begin this mission with precious little cash to finance it.” So my…
TRUMP’S BIGGEST LIE YET: Trump looked right into America’s eyes and claimed he would be a “big loser” if his tax bill passed. He said it was a “big Christmas present.” It is, to himself….
I recently had a chance to visit with Kia Hamadanchy, who is running in California’s 45th Congressional District. As legal counsel for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under the leadership of education…
Really touched by this kind review of my book from Author and Professor of Historical Theology, Randal Rauser. The experience Randal describes is precisely the one that I hoped people would have with this multi-touch…
You can bet on this: 60 percent-plus of Americans will exit the Trump era convinced that conservative Christianity is just white identity politics. They will be right. The white evangelical and conservative Roman Catholic alliance…
A Christian works for peace A FOXANGELICAL joins the NRA A Christian loves her country A FOXANGELICAL trusts Putin (because he hates gays as much as they do) and Russia more than the FBI, CIA,…
Both the New York Times and Washington Post have front-page headlines about how evangelical leaders now want to change the name “Evangelical” to something else post-Moore/Trump. My point is that the label isn’t the problem,…
Trump says DO NOT BELIEVE… the press, the women, the media, the polls, the FBI, the CIA, the military, Bob Mueller, climate scientists, environmentalists, the law, consumer advocates, black people, the Bible, Jesus’ teachings, your…
Can anyone have a reasonable discussion with white Evangelicals who voted for Trump and who offer no-matter-what-or-who-they-kill unwavering support for the state of Israel? The answer is no. For those who like me grew up…
I recently had a chance to sit down with Sam Jammal, a former Obama Commerce Department appointee and Congressional Chief of Staff who is running in California’s 39th Congressional District against a Republican who has…
In case you missed it, here is the video of my appearance this morning on AM Joy. We discussed how Trump’s decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel plays right into the hands of…
Dear Jerry Falwell Jr. and Franklin Graham, In the 1980s both of your fathers would have been shocked if someone had told them that in 2017, their sons would be arguing character doesn’t count and…
Alabama makes us uncomfortable, because it’s an accurate mirror of what lurks nationwide. Let’s thank Trump, Roy Moore and the GOP: They have proven forever that white American evangelicals are not a religious group at…
It is no exaggeration to say that the Trump GOP tax bill – at Christmastime no less! – is the most anti-Christian theft from the poor to give to the rich imaginable. Get this through…
All in the name of “religious freedom”…and Trump’s judicial picks will be the sole arbiters. A GOP theocracy coup against checks and balances is gaining momentum through Trump’s court picks. Trump’s legislative failures are in…
His recent racist re-tweets have a basis in Theology I was part of in the 1970s-80s. The president of the United States just promoted the resurrection of international white racist supremacy hate by a fading…
I’d like for you to take a little tour with me inside my new book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies. It’s 435 pages of text,…
Trump’s Alt-“Americans” freely fantasize in print and on YouTube about their desire to execute liberals, “race mixers,” and other “traitors.” There is nothing to negotiate here. What’s needed is a clean sweep destruction of the…
Trump: I thought your presidency would be a disaster: It’s worse. This Thanksgiving I’m thankful that as long as I have a heartbeat, I and millions of caring, loving humans will resist you. Resistance to…
Today is Thanksgiving, and apart from all the baggage that this holiday has accumulated for so many of us over the years, I do want to reflect on what I am thankful for, in addition…
As you may know, I’ve been criss-crossing the country talking to progressive Democrats who are ready to Take Back the House in 2018. I recently had the chance to sit down with Retired US Marine…
Discover my new Multi-Touch book, “Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies” on iBooks. Do you want me to keep blogging, posting videos, traveling and speaking? Then…
Our fight to disentangle American Christianity from white supremacy, misogyny, and the instinct to defend politicians like Trump & Roy Moore can only be won through community and fellowship that has the power to refashion…
“For the record,” said Roy Moore’s wife Kayla Moore, speaking at a rally for “Women For Moore” on the Alabama State House Steps about reaction to her husband’s alleged child-molesting scandal “it’s about 90 percent…
Here’s the most interesting conversation I’ve had in many years with the most interesting person I’ve met in years. Please watch my talk with Howie Klein: legendary rock promoter and political activist, who is also a leader in the anti-Trump…
Dear Future Colleagues in the U.S. Senate, Give me a chance! Anyway, why is America fake outraged? All I allegedly ever didn’t ever do is nothing compared what our slave-holding founder Thomas Jefferson did— repeatedly…
My Road Trip to Take Back the House in 2018 recently put me in contact with Laura Oatman, a LEED Certified Architect and Rescue-Dog lover running for Congress to unseat unpopular dinosaur and Russian comrade…
As you may know, I’ve embarked on a Road Trip to Take Back the House in 2018. My travels have put me in touch with honest, ordinary, hard-working Americans who want to rescue our country…
American evangelicals Fox News watchers and the Trump family ritually complain that no one says “Merry Christmas!” They complain that political correctness enforces a dreary “Happy Holidays.” Not this year! Evangelical Trump supporters have joined…
Flannery O’Connor, who said Southerners’ tendency to write about freaks because “we are still able to recognize one” wouldn’t be able to improve on the weird stranger-than-fiction story that Alabama voters, Roy Moore and Southern…
The Alabama state auditor, a Republican named Jim Ziegler, defended Judge Roy Moore’s brush with pedophilia, said Moore was “clean as a hound’s tooth” and offered a defense of child abuse saying the Virgin Mary…
I grew up in the big time Evangelical subculture, where a man like Roy Moore’s penchant for child sex/assault and alleged rape was all too typical. There was always some nasty little sex secret with…
Let’s be clear: President Obama was pro-life. He wanted families and children to have healthcare and live. Pence/Trump/Ryan are Pro-Death. They want to use tax reform as yet another way to cut healthcare. GOP Message…
I’ve been on the road talking with Laura Oatman, running in California’s 48th congressional district, and Doug Applegate, running in California’s 49th. They are both working for a progressive, inclusive America and you’ll meet them…
In 2018 you and I have the power to elect leaders who will reduce gun violence. The blood of innocents is on our hands. Wash the GOP/NRA away and cleanse our guilt. The Supreme Court…
Our airports are safe because we screen for guns. Open Carry Texas is where you get killed in church. No, this isn’t a “mental health problem” you idiot-it’s a gun madness problem! Discover my new…
Guest Post by Brian McLaren I am one of thousands (millions?) who became a devotee of Francis Schaeffer in the 1970’s. Escape from Reason, The God Who is There, He is There and He is Not…
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Genie and I have five grandchildren. Our oldest grandchildren—Amanda (22) and Ben (20)—are our daughter Jessica’s children. They live in Europe. Our youngest three grandchildren live across the street in the small Massachusetts town where…
Who sees the word “Niger” in the news next to the word “Trump” and misreads it assuming he’s used the N-Word in public? How far have we fallen? Discover my new Multi-Touch book, “Letter to…
As the STUPID YEARS! Brexit-madness in the UK, Trump delusion in the USA, Islam at war with itself, needless global warming suicide – here’s my solution. Discover my new Multi-Touch book, “Letter to Lucy: A…
General Kelly Was a Marine and Gold Star Father and His Son Was an Honored Hero. Now Kelly is Just Another Hired Trump Liar. It Would Take Shakespeare to Unpack this Tragedy. It’s a bad…
We got to discuss the religious right and the hypocrisy of the pro-life movement, the toxicity of the politics of hate and how to reject the corporate fascist industrial state. We also got to talk…
Yes. Here’s why I think most Americans would approve if General Kelly punched Trump in the mouth for disrespecting Kelly’s son killed in action. Want more political videos and commentary? Show your support. Discover my new…
Trump was received as the Messiah by screaming clapping white evangelical right-wingers. They see Trump as a path to revenge on secularism, gays, women, “them” and the future. Stephen K. Bannon and Sebastian Gorka —…
Misogynist pathology infects America Left and Right. Trump to Bill Clinton to Weinstein treat women like garbage. Hefner advanced “feminism” by letting women expose themselves in his magazine. It’s time to talk about morality again….
Help Jenny Marshall defeat Virginia Foxx and Take Back the House in 2018! TAKING BACK THE HOUSE IN 2018 – EPISODE 2 NORTH CAROLINA'S FIFTH DISTRICTWATCH and join me in helping Jenny Marshall unseat Virginia…
I ask myself these questions silently and inwardly: How may I atone for helping to poison America with certainty addiction? How do I defend my grandchildren against the religious right juggernaut I helped create? How…
Wearing a white cowboy hat and leather vest at a rally, Roy Moore repeated the conservative Christian themes he has used his entire public career: lock up gays, no to women’s rights… and “I believe…
Where are we going?!? Pre-order my new book, “Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption in the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies” on iBooks. Want more videos, blog posts, and political commentary? Show your…
Pre-order my new book, “Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption in the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies” on iBooks. Want more videos, blog posts, and political commentary? Show your support here.
How to understand the Roy Moore “win”? While Rousas Rushdoony and my dad Francis Schaeffer, are virtually unknown outside Christian right-wing circles, their teachings, co-opted by those with political agendas like Roy Moore, have taken on lives of their own. Fueled…
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WATCH and join me in helping Randy Bryce unseat Paul Ryan in 2018! For your chance to win a new black Stratocaster guitar autographed by all 3 members of Green Day click here. From Howie Klein: The…
On Friday, Sept 22, I’ll be doing my first video with Randy Bryce, the Democratic Party candidate running against Trump-facilitating PAUL RYAN for the all-important 2018 Congressional elections when SANE PEOPLE must TAKE BACK THE…
It’s a war for national survival. Here’s my first shot in that war for a sane, good, and decent America. Photo credit: Nancy Pelosi
It’s because the truth in the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life” is what Millennials long for and they are the key to taking back the House in 2018. Taking back the House in 2018 isn’t…
The son of a famous theologian and evangelist ripped into “prosperity gospel” pastor Joel Osteen, saying his disastrous decision to deny help to the flood-ravaged citizens of Houston exposed him as a follower of Ayn…
Then tar and feather them and defeat Trump’s deluded white Evangelical anti-science voters by voting for Democrats in 2018! Photo credit: R. Crap Mariner.
No matter what. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore
Republicans have been enabling Trump’s agenda and that of the white Nazi militias for a very long time. The Bush hierarchy may say they deplore racism and other GOP leaders make appropriate noises but these…
I’m trying to save America from Trump… Let me explain.
BUT his craven theocratic Evangelical advisory board remains 100% pro-fascism/oligarchy hoping to turn America into a real ‘Handmaid’s Tale’. A mix of radical far right born-again preachers, televangelists and ultra-conservative political influencers, still stands with…
In Charlottesville, Heather Heyer, was murdered. She died only yards away from heavily militarized armed far right militiaman. She died because Donald Trump has unleashed hatred made in his own image into the American mainstream….
Those like General Kelly who still serve Trump/Bannon are as complicit as Trump is in the Nazi, KKK and White Nationalist Attack on America.
Many evangelicals don’t know it but what they are doing now in backing Trump unconditionally — no matter what he does — was advocated long before Trump came on the scene by a movement most…
It’s Mike Pence and the Pentecostal Evangelicals who really do want to turn America into their version of “The Handmaid’s Tale”… And the lazy, ignorant secular media don’t get it!
By Ben Wright I promise that if you keep reading, we’ll get to Let Me Be Frank, an amazing new documentary that exposes the American Religious Right as fraudulent and cynical. But first, indulge me…
This year at the Wild Goose Festival, I sat down with Shawna Bowman to discuss the intrinsic value of art. Watch the video of our conversation below.
Trump brags about his great electoral victory. His numbers about his Twitter following are also trumped up and provide another insight into this liar’s liar. As Celisa Calacal writes in AlterNet, “Trump tweeted on June 17 about his overall…
The Republican party has sold out to Trump to strip medical care from millions of Americans to bankroll lavish tax cuts for the super wealthy.
Trump has done us a favor. He has reminded anyone patriotic on the left and right — that has even part of their brain working — that we “enemies” share common ground. Trump did this…
The elite mantra “It’s the economy, stupid!” most often has stood in for the axiom that secular concerns always prevail. Everything was about the nuts and bolts of growth, and if “social issues”—the inaccurate media…
Do you care what some man sings about redemption from homelessness, evangelical credulity, substance addiction and mental illness? What if he’s also a man who then finds enlightenment that is equal parts Jesus (on one…
Artist Statement Why religion-obsessed art in 2017? Because in an era when Trump hijacked the white evangelical vote mimicking the bitter radicalization of some Muslims, religion is not just relevant—it is deadly. It must be…
Welcome to Ayn Rand Hell. Republicans are about to try to destroy President Obama’s landmark Affordable Healthcare Act. To do so they will sacrifice the well-being of tens of millions of Americans. They will thus…
My Interview on MSNBC's "AM Joy" ICYMI: Here's my interview on AM Joy on MSNBC this past Saturday where I talk about Trump and the evangelicals working for him. Please watch!If you enjoyed this video,…
I predict a coalition will rise up to wipe away the stench of Trump. Trump is the last stinking fart of a dying white supremacist oligarchy supported by a diminishing underclass and a white evangelical…
Forbes just published a piece “How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business,” about Trump taking money meant for cancer research for children for himself. No kidding. How low will Trump go?…
“Donald Trump can’t be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad.” So notes the Associated Press (AP). Please watch my video here related to this devastating AP article…
Denying science in general and the science of climate change in particular is now an article of faith for white American evangelicals right up there with the divinity of Christ. Thus when Trump announced that…
Trump is out to destroy the human race’s hopes of reversing climate change. He molested women and now he is raping the planet. Trump said women were forced to let him assault them because…
Pastor Billy Graham’s daughter Anne Graham Lotz, says that God allows terror attacks “because of transgenders and theory of evolution.” Cardinal Caffarra, speaking May 19 to the Rome Life Forum, to 100 family values leaders…
Why did 81 percent of white evangelicals believe Trump’s lies? Why do they still persist in supporting this failing and flailing “president”? Why do they prefer fake news to facts? The answer can be found…
Please WATCH my 8 minute video commentary on this… thanks! In The Trump/Pence/Putin/ISIS Terror-Era It’s Time To Tell The… In The Trump/Pence/Putin/ISIS Terror-Era, It’s Time To Tell The Hard Truth: All Fundamentalist Religion Is the…
In The Trump/Pence/Putin/ISIS Terror-Era, It’s Time To Tell The Hard Truth: All Fundamentalist Religion Is the Enemy of Peace. Period.
Before Trump became president there was room for debate about what and who we Americans really are. Not anymore. We know ourselves now because Trump is our mirror. Before Trump became president there was room…
“Gold-Plated Oligarchs” WATCH my Video Please… The Saudi Extremist Woman-Haters Who Financed 9/11 Will Love T… The Saudi Extremist Woman-Haters Who Financed 9/11 Will Love Trump: Trump is Into Hate and Racial and Religious Exclusion…
Trump is a fool. America is in trouble. Evangelicals made him president. Evangelical theology set the stage for Trump. So did people calling themselves Christians who did not stand up to the American evangelicals. Now…
Bono is on tour and denouncing Trump. The problem is that Bono unwittingly helped get Trump elected. Bono did this by providing cover for the white evangelicals that are Trump’s most reliable base. Bono has…
Trump’s unfathomable bizarre behavior proves he is frightened of things the Russia-connection investigations might expose. His “way” of dealing with this threat was also irrational– create a firestorm by firing Comey. Trump suffers from a…
In Calvinism, the theological cult of an angry God in which I was raised, humans are created by a God who like Trump, has determined to give them only the illusion of free will. And…
We are being conditioned to chaos by Trump. Thank God he’s not caring for my grandchildren. My daily joy is found in the stillness of repeated tender moments. If you understand children you know that…
Clearly Trump wants the FBI to become his version of Putin’s lapdog FSB (the Russian intelligence services successor to the KGB, that hacked both the American and French elections) — and just do what they…
Please WATCH my 6 minute video commentary on just why we Americans will win against the con artist Trump and his family of grifters… We Will Resist the Trump Clan of Con Artist Crooks and…
More than 20 states have proposed bills that would crack down on protests and demonstrations since Donald Trump was elected. The proposed laws would variously increase the penalties for protesting in large groups, and, in…
Say you hate everyone but the super rich and wish to redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars from working class people to the Koch brothers, the Trump clan and the founders of Facebook and…
Institutions known for sexual assault (including child rape and spousal abuse) are mostly organizations closed to supervision that do not have checks because they answer only to a supreme leader of some sort, usually a…
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White evangelicals love Trump because he’s delivering what his core constituency craves: the real possibility of a white supremacist male-dominated Christian theocracy. Judging by Trump’s first 100 days he’s off to a resoundingly failed legislative…
Take the Fyre Festival — the disastrous failed luxury “Music Event” story about disappointed rich brat music festival goers — and the “presidency” of rich brat Donald Trump… and merge them. Here’s an oddly entertaining…
“His Presidency has become the demoralizing daily obsession of anyone concerned with global security, the vitality of the natural world, the national health, constitutionalism, civil rights, criminal justice, a free press, science, public education, and…
In his first 100 days Trump has failed at everything but one initiative: he’s been very successful at finding more corrupt ways to make money off the American presidency for his family members and pals…
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Trump voters have changed the old saying “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” to “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice– just fine by me!” A new…
Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series of sixteen novels represents everything that is most deranged about American religion. To understand why Trump became president — with 81 percent of the white evangelical vote…
“Letters to Lucy” is a multimedia project I’ve worked on for 3 years. Now I’ve teamed up with EJ, a great designer to bring it out as an iBook. We’ve chosen to publish the book…
As Trump melds TV-watching with Tweeting, in his warped flow of media-addled consciousness, he is the perfect example how our TV-addicted culture has now morphed into the tech-addicted culture of alt-“facts.” Mental health experts have…
When I grew up in the evangelical ghetto good manners about all things sexual were the gold standard of both my evangelical upbringing and our ideas about what it meant to be a conservative. The…
Dear Trump Voter, He played you for a fool. That wall will not built as advertised let alone be paid for by Mexico. The “repeal of Obamacare”- a flop. Major tax reform- not happening either….
Trump has spent his lifetime defining the word grifter as synonymous with his last name. Here’s how the dictionary defines it: grifter noun, Slang. a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair,…
When it comes to Internet privacy Trump, and the GOP are adopting the corporate-authoritarian model of China – where the state can not only watch everything you do on the Internet, but can also censor…
“How can I make my relationships and my life work?” Hint: It isn’t anything you’ll learn about male or female orgasms online. The Alpha Males on Wall Street and running Silicon Valley have nothing to…
Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls. Silicon Valley billionaires think they will live forever by downloading their consciousness to computers. Evangelicals are waiting for Jesus. What all agree on is that our true…
Normalizing abuse, violence and tyranny in America to protect corporate greed is now our way of life. Left and Right unite! Let’s destroy United Airlines and send a message to our overlords: enough! We are…
Here’s why we need to punish United Airlines and send a message to our Trumpian corporate masters: United Airlines overbooked a flight. So what? So this– A man was dragged and bloodied off the plane….
Trump is a man so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead. Will he fake terror? Will he go to war to distract us?…
One day in 1968, a few weeks after I’d run away from by UK boarding school (age 15) and was back in Switzerland at my parent’s evangelical mission of L’Abri, Dad said, “I took your…
Trump’s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was — according to humanistic idealists such as Winston Churchill — supposed to be a secular age of reason and enlightenment. Instead of…
How else to explain the irrationality of Trump’s scorched earth “policy” than severe mental illness? Since it makes no sense to destroy the planet Earth, there must be some unhinged psychological obsession at work here….
In 2011 Kevin Miller, asked me “Do you believe in hell?” Miller, a Canadian movie producer, was interviewing me for his documentary Hellbound?, gathering a variety of perspectives on the subject of hell. His interviewees…
Once during a brief visit home while I was on a particularly travel-filled and arduous university lecture tour in 2014, my granddaughter Lucy (then 5) asked me plaintively, “Ba, but why are you traveling so…
Three bullies are competing to punch each other in the mouth: Trump, Bannon and the so-called Freedom Caucus in Congress. It would be fun to watch the GOP self-destruct post “Trumpcare” except for the fact…
When President W Bush sent my Marine son to war three times (2003-2004) I thought Bush was a fool, but not a dishonorable person. I wrote this in the Washington Post: Before my son became…
Put it this way: How does one talk someone mired in irrational beliefs into accepting fact-based reality? More to the point these days, how does one change a Trump voter’s mind and get her or…
I had never thought about ancestry much until Trump was elected. His fanning the flames of hate for the “other” reminded me that my family goes “way back” in America. Far from that being a…
