If Trump’s not a Traitor who is?
In 2016 what did the Russians have on Trump to make him put their interests ahead of American democracy? In 2018 what do the Saudis have on Trump as he whitewashes a murder for them?…
On the Vote Common Good Tour
Following is a report from the road: I just finished a three-day stretch through Iowa and Nebraska with the “merry band of common do-gooders”, and it was an absolute delight! Doug likes to welcome the…
Trump is lying for the Saudi King like he lied for Putin, Roy Moore and Kavanaugh (and would have for the Nazis)
Trump is lying for the Saudi King like he lied for Putin, Roy Moore and Kavanaugh (and would have for the Nazis) Trump defends murderers of journalists but won't honor his bets. What a scum….
“The Talk”
Dear America, It’s time we had “The Talk.” -Frank Schaeffer "The Talk" Dear America,It's time we had "The Talk."-Frank Schaeffer Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Sunday, October 14, 2018 What comes after “The Talk”? How…
It Is Time to Focus the Rage of the American People on Trump’s Remade Far Right Anti-Democracy Federal Judiciary
Thanks to ruthless discipline — and a far right plan long in the making — the Republicans are carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary that borders on a coup. Kavanaugh is only…
An open letter to all artists: Mock the Trump-GOP takeover of the Federal Judiciary
An open letter to all artists: Mock the Trump-GOP takeover of the Federal Judiciary Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Sunday, October 7, 2018 What to do when every week feels like a year? How do…
Kavanaugh will become to women what Stephen Miller is now to brown people and immigrants: a one-man lynch mob
The question about abortion that always came up was “What about rape?” Now the symbolism is too awful to pass up: An alleged rapist and serial molester becomes the deciding vote on the Supreme Court…
Look in the mirror to see the person to blame if Trump and his racist misogynist Republicans win again in November
Beto O’Rourke’s popularity has grown in Texas but he faces the challenge of turning out young and Hispanic voters who tend not to vote. The same pattern is nationwide: those with most to lose seem…
Trump and a Mississippi white evangelical lynch mob laughed at a victim of sexual assault – it’s time to destroy the Republican Party
Trump’s just imitated and mocked a victim of being sexually assaulted as a child. He did the same to a disabled man. Trump had no words of comfort for Dr. Ford. Instead he entertains white…
Join Me on the Vote Common Good Tour
Friends, the Vote Common Good Tour is officially underway and coming to a city near you! Following are all the dates of the tour, and the dates where I will be. Vote Common Good Tour…
Did You Ever Think You’d See the Day When American Evangelicals Would Be Identified with the Approval of a Rapist?
Franklin Graham’s Trump Cult hypocrisies have now totally displaced his last vestige of Christian faith. The Rev. Franklin Graham, says the attempted rape of Dr. Ford was not a crime because “if it was true,…
Huge Numbers Of Women Aren’t Just Mad – They’re Organized and Mobilized
You know things are bad for the Republican Party when a large Mormon women’s group is calling on senators to suspend the Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings until a thorough investigation is completed. Women aren’t just mad…
Is Clinging To Fading White Power Really Worth The Price Of Discrediting Jesus To Your Children– Forever?
Dear White Evangelical Trump Voters: You went along with Trump’s groping, disgusting racism and pathological lies. Now, will you even defend attempted rape? Is clinging to fading white power in the name of overturning Roe…
Here’s why I should have punched Franklin Graham in the nose when we were kids and he visited our home
Having KNOWINGLY elected a self-admitted sexual predator as “president” Republicans and their white evangelical backers can hardly claim to be shocked or surprised that Trump’s nominating like-minded male deviants to high office. What did you…
Think About It: The Republicans Want To Give Us an Alleged Rapist to Strike Down The Right to Abortion
Think About It: The Republicans Want To Give Us an Alleged Rapist to Strike Down The Right to Abortion Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Sunday, September 23, 2018 What to do when every week feels…
AM Joy – 09/22/18
ICYMI, here’s my appearance this morning on AM Joy on MSNBC, discussing the Kavanaugh nomination, and the Abortion Based Cult that makes up today’s Republican Party and especially Trump’s base. I also got to talk…
WHERE IS JOHN MILTON WHEN WE NEED HIM?
A guest blog by Melvin Hathorn Recently, one of my classes centered on a discussion of the media and its historic relationship to an authoritarian government. I could not help but reflect on Trump and…
Let Me Be Frank… Movie Screening
If you are in Boston on 9/20, I’ll be screening my documentary “Let Me Be Frank: The Traitorous Turnabout of an Evangelical Heir Apparent” at the Boston University School of Theology from 5:00 PM –…
Is America a Third-World Country?
I'm in Europe Talking to Ordinary People and Some Leaders About How They See Trump's America: They Feel Sorry for Us. People look at us more and more now as if we are a third-world…
Please READ this article!
Please READ this article: “..populism correlates with a kind of communal breakdown, in which secularization is one variable among many leaving people feeling isolated and angry, and drawing them to the ersatz solidarity of white…
The 6th of November
There is an article today in the New York Times about Vote Common Good, a group that I have co-founded and raised money for and am really, really excited about as we head toward what…
I’m in France Where American Blood Was Shed to Stop Evil Fools like Trump
Do We Have To Re-Learn the Hard Price of Peace Again? I’m in France Where American Blood Was Shed to Stop Evil Fools like Trump—Do We Have to Re-Learn the Hard Price of Peace Again?…
Join The Vote Common Good Tour!
Vote Common Good is inviting Christians to use their votes to change Congress in 2018. Pastors, teachers, musicians, and others in the group will be crossing the country on a bus tour, spreading the message…
Vote Common Good!
BREAKING: From the New York Times, “In remarks to evangelical ministers in the White House State Dining Room on Monday night, President Trump spoke in high-minded tones about religious liberty, abortion and youth unemployment. He…
That’s some “hoax”!
Trump looks more and more like an ordinary low-rent dimwit mobster with every passing court case, conviction and guilty plea. This is no “witch hunt.” It’s the most successful special counsel investigations ever. Alongside the…
Compare Jimmy Carter’s Idea of Christianity and Leadership to What Comes Next: The Republican/Evangelical/Trump Turn to Theocratic Fascism
Thirty-seven years after leaving office, Jimmy Carter, 93, still bypasses the wealth and perks that flow so freely to other former presidents. White evangelicals hate this Christian who lives like Jesus and follow a lying…
Trump Has Destroyed the Christian Witness in America and Replaced It with an Authoritarian Cult of Lies
Dear Republicans: Now would be a good time for you who are Trump’s staffers to exit and get as far away from his unfolding legal disaster as you can. And Republicans in Congress- you have…
To Support Donald Trump is Treason.
78% Of White Evangelical Trump Voters Support Trump’s Sellout to Putin So We Now Know: The Evangelicals Are Traitors to America. To Support Donald Trump is Treason 78% Of White Evangelical Trump Voters Support Trump’s…
To Stop Trump Selling Us to Putin and Putting Children in Cages We Have To Use Our Democracy
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…
It’s Time to Reject the Rich and Stupid: Send Trump, Elon Musk and Their Ilk a Message
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…
It’s Time for General John F. Kelly to Clap His Old Marine Sidearm to Trump’s Head and Arrest Him for Treason
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…
Trump and Miller (the Jewish Nazi) Would Have Gladly Drowned the Brown Children in Thailand
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,…
When will we break the cycle?
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…
Trump Is a Child Molester and the People Working For Him Should Be Tried For Crimes against Humanity
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…
Congressman Ted Lieu
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 You Have Lost the Ability to Feel Anger When Trump’s Abused Children Weep You Don’t Have the Right to Live
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…
AM Joy and Vote Common Good
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…
San Juans Summit – Doug Pagitt
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…
San Juans Summit – Heather Lundy
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…
Vote for the Common Good.
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…
San Juans Summit – John Pavlovitz
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…
San Juans Summit – Samir Selmanović
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…
A Letter About “Lucy.”
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….
The Thom Hartmann Program
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…
Who in Their Right Mind Would Have Anything to Do with These Con-Artists, Let Alone with the Word “Prayer” Once It Comes out Of Trump’s Lying Mouth?
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 Sanders, You Are a Porn Star and the Worst Person in the World
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…
American Civilization Is Fighting an Uphill Battle against White Evangelicals’ Tendency to Choose Make-Believe as a Self-Justification for Well-Honed Ignorance
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
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…
Evangelical White Trump Supporters Are Practical Nihilists
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…
Thank You Donald Trump for Empowering White Evangelicals and Proving That They Are Indeed America’s Most Deadly Enemy
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…
Evangelicals’ Problem Isn’t Trump, it’s That They Believe in Lies
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…
Time to Re-Define the Words White Evangelicalism as A Myth-Based Cult Little Better Than A Jumped-Up Lynch Mob
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…
When Trump Falls Here’s How the White Evangelical Leadership Will Explain and Profit from His Fall
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…
The Coming White American Evangelical Trump-Guilt Crack Up
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…
Christians Should Not Be Ashamed Of Trump Because Of His Porn-Star Entanglements But Because Of His War on Compassionate Social Policies
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….
Abandoning Jesus. Embracing Trump.
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…
Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump, You’re Both Bullies Trading on Your Delusional “Victimhood”
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…
This Easter America’s Evangelicals No Longer Believe in the Risen Lord but in the Alt-Reality of Their Porn-Star Pres
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…
White Evangelical Americans Are All That’s Keeping A Mobster Violence-Threatening Thug in Power—Think About It!
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 Need New Ownership Rights by Each Individual of all Her or His Personal Data Information
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…
Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend: Time to Rethink Our Relationship to Social Media Empires That Act More like Trump by the Day
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…
Facebook Is Run By Self-Serving Liars: It Must Be Regulated
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…
Please Read Andrew McCabe’s Response To Being Fired by Trump Two Days Before His Retirement
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…
The Moral Bankruptcy of the Evangelical Movement is TOTAL
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…
This is the Age of Delusional Illusion– Let Me Explain
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…
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. Psalm 118:22
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…
Billy Graham is lying in state. Why? We are not Iran. We are not a theocracy.
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…
Frank Schaeffer’s Road Trip • Special Episode • Unrig the System Summit
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 – Is God Ready To See The Planet Destroyed– In His Name?
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…
Frank Schaeffer on Billy Graham’s Values and Influence on American Political Life
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…
Hellrazed?
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
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…
Dear Republican-Voting Evangelical Trump Supporters: Repent! You Are Siding with Those Utterly Indifferent to the NRA’s Cult of Child Sacrifice!
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…
Is it time to ditch the label ‘Evangelical’?
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…
The Republican-Party-Gun-Lobby-NRA Cabal Is Itself a “Senseless Act of Violence”
“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”…
Trump and the Republican Leadership Are Counting On, Using and Covering for Russian Help In the 2018 Congressional Elections – Yes, It Is Happening Again!
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…
Trump Seems To Have No Men Pals Who Aren’t Abusers
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…
The Evangelical Lust for Power
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…
Burst Your Media Bubble
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…
We Need Trump’s Soviet-Style Military Parade Like a Cancer Patient Needs More Hair Loss
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…
Unrig the System
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…
What’s The Only 2018 Message Democrats Need To Win? STOP TRUMP Before He STOPS America!
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…
Our Long National Nightmare
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…
The boiling frogs.
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…
Trump Is a White Racist Jerry Falwell Sr. Type Patriarch Promising Cultural Payback So Doesn’t Threaten the Religious Right’s Core “Traditional Values”
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”…
Allow Me to Introduce Kara Eastman
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…
The Black Evangelical Church Gave Us Mavis Staples- The White Church Gave Us Trump- Who Are the Actual Jesus-Infused Christian Leaders Of America? I Rest My Case
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…
Sarah Huckabee: A One Woman Destroyer of BOTH America’s and Her Evangelical Religion’s Credibility
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….
VIDEO: Trump Is Now an Ego-Driven Blackmailer — Literally
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 Is the Leader of a Cult of Whiteness and Greed
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 Is (Maybe) God’s Gift to America- Let Me Explain
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 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…
Dear White Evangelical Trump-Lovers: Is it okay to abort brown babies from Haiti? Or should they get born so we can deny them visas?
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…
Let Me Be Frank
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…
Thank You, Oprah.
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…
Anyone Reduced To Tweeting “I’m A Genius” May Be Wearying of His Self-Made Chaos
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…
Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” Makes Me Ask My Old Republican Friends: When Will You Put Country Before Politics and Get Rid of Trump-The-Unfit?
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…
Being a Respectable Evangelical Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry for the Trump-Supporting Bigotry and Ignorance That’s at the Heart of Your “Faith”
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…
Frank Schaeffer’s Road Trip • Episode 8 • Jared Golden
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…
I’m Very Sorry That in My Evangelical Leadership Days I Helped Pave the Road for Trump’s Assault on Democracy
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…
Frank Schaeffer’s Road Trip • Episode 7 • Katie Hill
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…
In 2018 The Aim Must Be to Destroy Trump and The Republican’s Intolerance: Here’s The Only Path to The Victory of Good Over Evil
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 Just Moved From Mere “Mob Ties” To Becoming an Actual Crime Boss and Self-Dealing Thief
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….
Frank Schaeffer’s Road Trip • Episode 6 • Kia Hamadanchy
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…
A Meandering Exploration of Art, Life, and Love.
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…
Trump’s Evangelicals and Conservative Roman Catholics Have Offered Themselves as Exhibit #1 in the Secular Case for Rejecting All Christians as Toxic
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…
Evangelical Christianity In America Is Dead. Trump Killed It by Inventing a New Religion: The One True Church of FOXANGELICALS
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,…
Dear Evangelicals, Your Problem Isn’t That You Need A New LABEL for Your Movement Post-Roy Moore and Trump–You Need to Stop Believing In Stupid Things!
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,…
VIDEO: Trump to Morons Everywhere: “JUST BELIEVE ME!”
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…
Sheldon Adelson Will Join “Jews for Jesus” (OR BURN IN HELL) According to Evangelical “Zionists” Who Blindly Support Israel
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…
Help Sam Jammal Take Back the House in 2018!
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…
Jerusalem, a 19th Century Cult, and 83 Million Dollars.
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…
An Open Letter to Jerry Falwell Jr. & Franklin Graham
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…
I Want to Thank Donald Trump from the Bottom of My Heart
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…
This Christmas DO NOT Watch “It’s A Wonderful Life!” There’s Way Too Much Jesus in It! In Trumped Tax-Cut-For-The-Rich-America We Must Bow Down To Greed NOT Celebrate Christ’s Love!
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…
America Stands On the Brink of an Evangelical/Catholic-Imposed Theocracy
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…
Trump Would Have Re-Tweeted Racist Slogans from Hitler in 1938
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…
Down the Rabbit Hole
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,…
There’s Nothing to Talk About Here Just a War to Be Won at Any Cost
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…
THIS THANKSGIVING GIVE THANKS FOR THE RESISTANCE!
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…
Help Doug Applegate Take Back the House in 2018
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…
Meet Doug Applegate
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…
VIDEO: When it Comes to Molesting and Assault: Let’s Stop Making Excuses for Evil on the Left or Right. Period
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…
The Challenge for Authentic Christian Leaders: Find Ways to Help Trumped Zombie-“Believers” Rediscover Their Own Heritage
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…
Roy Moore’s Wife’s Defense of Roy Moore and the New Improved Evangelical Moral Relativism
“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…
Howie Klein: The Most Interesting Person I’ve Met in Years
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…
Roy Moore’s “Dear Colleagues” Letter to the Republican Leadership
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…
Laura Oatman Lives by the Golden Rule
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…
Frank Schaeffer’s Road Trip – Episode 3 – Laura Oatman
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…
EVANGELICALISM 2017: BANKRUPT POLITICS MASQUERADING AS FAITH
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…
There Is Too Much Religious Liberty in Roy Moore’s/Trump’s/Pence’s America: Let’s Hear It For The Rule Of Law!
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…
When Christians Cite the Bible to Defend Child Molestation We’ve Reached the Bottom of the American / Evangelical Slide to Hell
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…
Roy Moore’s Alleged Child Rape is Not an Abusive Anomaly, He’s the Patriarchal Norm
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 And Pence/Trump/Ryan Are Pro-Death
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…
The Beginning of the 2018 Return to Sanity!
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…
GOP/Trump/NRA Gun Lobby Openly Enabling Mass Murder as a Basic American “Right”
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…
VIDEO: The GOP/NRA and Trump are Making America Safe for Mass Gun Murder
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…
Brian McLaren: Frank’s New Book Is “Beautiful…A Visual and Musical Feast…”
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…
VIDEO: Let Me Explain Trump’s Scum Response to the NYC Truck Terror
Discover my new Multi-Touch book, “Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption in the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies” on iBooks. Want more political videos and commentary? Show your support.
Trump Is a Minor Problem Compared to the Fact We’re Destroying Our Children
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…
VIDEO: Am I the Only Person…
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…
VIDEO: How Will This Moment be Remembered in History?
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…
VIDEO: General Kelly Just Another Hired Trump Liar
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…
I had a GREAT talk with Nicole Sandler today!
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…
VIDEO: Would Most Americans Approve If General Kelly Punched Trump In the Mouth?
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…
At The Family Research Council’s Recent Values Voter Summit, The Religious Right Crucified Jesus All over Again and Worships Trump
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 —…
VIDEO: Misogynist Pathology Infects America Left and Right
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….
VIDEO: TAKING BACK THE HOUSE IN 2018 – EPISODE 2 – NORTH CAROLINA’S FIFTH DISTRICT
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…
Our Nation’s Descent into Madness Via Trump, Fascism and Lies is Killing Us and it Has to Stop. Help Me Stop It.
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…
Roy Moore, Guns, and the Christian Fascist (Trump) Uprising
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…
VIDEO: Trump Is “President,” Tom Petty Is Dead, 58 Killed By Weapons of Mass Destruction and the NRA/Republicans Don’t Care!
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…
VIDEO: Las Vegas Killings, the NRA, Judge Moore, Jerry Falwell Jr., the Republicans, and Trump: Pimps of Violence
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.
VIDEO: Let Me Explain How My Dad and Me Helped Judge Roy Moore Win and Unhinge the GOP With a Nutcase Even Sicker Than Trump!
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…
VIDEO INTERVIEW: On the Road with Congressional Candidate Randy Bryce
Save America – get rid of Paul Ryan and take back the House in 2018! Click here to support my political video commentaries, blogging, and travel. For your chance to win a new black Stratocaster…
VIDEO: TAKING BACK THE HOUSE IN 2018 – EPISODE 1 – WISCONSIN’S FIRST DISTRICT
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…
Friday, September 22, I Interview Randy Bryce
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…
VIDEO: The Democrats Taking Back the House in 2018 Isn’t Politics as Usual
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
Let Me Explain Why I’m About to Launch a Road Tour to Interview Democratic Party Candidates for My Video Blog
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…
‘It’s the gospel of Ayn Rand’: Son of evangelist eviscerates Joel Osteen’s ‘prosperity gospel’ greed
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…
VIDEO: Houston Under Water? Send the Bill to the Koch Brothers
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.
VIDEO: Let Me Explain Why Trump’s Core White Supporters (Mostly Evangelical Christians) Won’t EVER Turn against Him
No matter what. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore
With Trump and the White Supremacist Republican Party- This Is No Longer a Culture War but the Start of a Civil War
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…
VIDEO: Here’s Why I’m Lying on the Floor of the Oakland CA Airport In The Middle of the Night
I’m trying to save America from Trump… Let me explain.
Business Leaders Flee Trump’s Pro-Nazi Statements
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…
VIDEO: Trump just proved — AGAIN — that he is the logical fulfillment of the racist American past that has never been honestly addressed
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….
VIDEO: Post-Charlottesville
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.
Note to Secular Commentators: You Still Don’t “Get” Evangelical Support for Trump Because You Don’t Know what the Reconstructionists Were/Are all About
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…
VIDEO: Who Are The Hardest Hard Core Most Deranged Trump Supporters?
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!
Film Review: Let Me Be Frank – Rage Against The Evangelical Machine, Or When Repentance Looks Like Atheism
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…
The Intrinsic Value of Art
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.
Everything about Trump is a Lie: Even His Lies about Lies! Take His Lies About His Twitter Account…
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…
VIDEO: 6 Months into the True State of the Pornified Trump “Presidency”
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’s Reminded Us of the Values BOTH the (Better and Saner Parts) of the American Right and Left Share
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…
What the Left and Right BOTH Don’t Admit About the Inconvenient Truth Concerning HOW We Found Ourselves in Trumped America (Video)
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…
I discovered a new soundtrack to this stage of my life… I found myself listening to the anthem for We-The-Discontented-Who-Long-For-A-Deeper-Meaning
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…
5 paintings: A manifesto of creative redemption in the age of Trump, fascism and lies | 2017 Summer Art Show
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: Trump, Pence, the Koch Brothers I Curse You In The Name Of Jesus Christ
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…
Did You Know That Trump, Pat Robertson and Jay Sekulow (Trump’s New “Defense Attorney”) Are All on the Same Team Now? They’re All Specialists in Scamming People, Building Highly Lucrative Nepotistic Empires… and Lying
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,…
Trump Is NOT Our Future! Take HOPE
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…
How Low Will Trump Go? This Low! Forbes Magazine Bombshell Says TRUMP TOOK MONEY FROM A FUND FOR CANCER RESEARCH FOR CHILDREN… FOR HIMSELF
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?…
Trump can’t be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad
“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…
Here’s Why Trump’s War on the Earth’s Environment Pleases White Evangelicals
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’s Decision to Pull out Of the Paris Climate Accord Forces Us to Ask the Ultimate Moral Question: Is Human Existence Only a Vicious Arena Where Ruthless Destroyers Compete for Deadly Advantage, Or Do We Still Dare To Yearn For Beauty, Righteousness, Meaning And Purpose?
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…
The Mask Has Fallen From the “Family Values” Trump-Loving Religious Right: The Putin-Loving Global White Religious Right Is Not Religious At All, But More Fascist by the Day
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…
Sean Hannity, Seth Rich, Noah’s Ark and Trump: Why Fake News and Fake (Evangelical) Religion Endures
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…
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.
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.
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.
The Terrifying Truth about the USA (And All of Us) That Trump’s Rise to Power Confirms and What to Do about It
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…
Trump Bows to the Saudi Sponsors of 9/11
“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…
When Mike Pence Is President Will He Pardon Donald Trump? (WATCH the 5 minute video)
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…
Does U2’s Bono Support Donald Trump?
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…
The Case For Impeachment Grows
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…
Trump’s Ugly Life Offers Us a Cautionary Parable about Choosing Soul Death Instead Of Timeless Joy
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…
If Trump Was Your Cousin Would You Ever Ask Him to Care for Your Child or Grandchild Alone and Unsupervised For a Weekend?
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…
When He Fired Comey — And Lied about Why He Did — Trump Acted Like a Mobster Trying To Avoid Prosecution by Intimidating Witnesses
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…
We Will Resist the Trump Clan of Con Artist Crooks and Win: Here’s Why (Hint, History Is on Our Side Don’t Give Up)
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…
Trump Is A Coward and So Are the Republicans: They Can’t Face Critics and Want to Criminalize Protest
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…
Trump and the GOP “Pro-Life” Healthcare Abortion
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…
Evangelicals Defend Trump, Fox News and Sexual Assault Because Evangelicals Would Rather “Protect the Lord’s Work” (And Their Own Legion of Predatory Abusers) Than Care For Victims
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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