By Gregory Paul | 11 October 2003Free Inquiry magazine “You know what happens when atheists take over—remember Nazi Germany?” Many Christians point to Nazism, alongside Stalinism, to illustrate the perils of atheism in power.[1] At…
By Mary Papenfuss Read at HuffPost The mother “had this lost look,” an immigrant rights advocate told The Clarion Ledger after a visit. “She doesn’t know what tomorrow will bring.” The massive raids by Immigration…
“So I think, you know, I think our family was involved in helping to launch a horror show.” –Frank Schaeffer America’s anti-abortion movement is gaining ground fast, and it’s white evangelical Christians on the front…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
The El Paso shooter said he wanted to stop the immigrant “invasion” of America. As recently as May, Trump used the exact same words: “It’s an invasion.” Then someone in the crowd yelled out “shoot…
Killer clowns are taking over: Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán. Build a wall to stop the world’s slide to…
Trump sees the presidency as a giant megaphone for stoking racial and ethnic hatred. He seeks to demonize those who oppose his policies as dangerous extremists out to destroy …. Germany, uh, no, I mean,…
Trump’s disgusting comments telling Americans to “go back where they come from” is classic racism. My last name is Schaeffer – that’s a German name. I would like to remind Trump that he has German…
Frank Schaeffer: From Helping Found the Religious Right to Embracing Uncertainty and Finding Community “I think that a lot of times people start with their worldview answers in a big stroke, but the first thing…
This July 4th Trump’s goons on Border Patrol are using a secret Facebook page joking about children dying, about forcing female Congresswomen to have sex. July 4, 2019 Trump’s America is a fascist state taken…
Trump said Monday that a New York-based advice columnist and author who accused him of raping her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s was not his “type.” Writer E. Jean Carroll claims…
Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Silicon Valley to take responsibility for the damage it has caused in a recent commencement speech at Stanford Originally Posted June 19, 2019 Read at The Guardian If I’ve…
By Emily Bazelon Originally posted June 17, 2019 at nytimes.com The first time I met Elizabeth Warren, she had just come home from a walk with her husband and her dog at Fresh Pond, the…
By David Von Drehle Read at Washington Post When rich people are credibly accused of crimes, does the public have a right to know? Should multimillionaires be allowed to silence their accusers with cash? According…
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By Philip Johnson Originally posted May 22, 2019 at PeterBeinart.net. Last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that American aid to Israel is “something that can be discussed” in Washington. Her comments made news precisely because…
If Bernie were progressive he’d drop out. He lost the election for Hillary and now impedes Elizabeth Warren’s chances. She has the intellect and has done her homework. Warren has the progressive credentials. Will this…
via The New York Times Immigration quotas should be based on how much the host country has ruined other countries. By Suketu Mehta There is a lot of debate these days about whether the United States…
The Massachusetts senator is proposing something radical: a country in which adults discuss serious ideas seriously. By Farhad Manjoo It’s early, but this much is true: Elizabeth Warren is running the most impressive presidential campaign…
To send an American white supremacist Neo-Nazi president to honor those who died fighting the very ideas he supports as he cages children is disgusting. Today America lost its honor. Given his support of Putin,…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
ICYMI – I was on AM Joy on MSNBC this morning with the great Johnathan Capehart discussing Franklin Graham’s and Evangelicals’ denouncement of the genuine Christianity of people like Mayor Pete Buttigieg, while hypocritically promoting Trump’s twisted…
The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a quiet, leafy neighborhood….
“Biden and Sanders come across as romantics. Biden- stuck in the past, when real bipartisanship sometimes happened. Sanders [living] in an imaginary future, where a popular tidal wave washes away all political obstacles. Neither seems…
The woman who blew open the Cambridge Analytica scandal says Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are ‘handmaidens to authoritarianism’ Even before the TED 2019 conference in Vancouver, Canada opened on Monday, the event promised to be political….
It’s very early in the race to 2020, and there are a lot of wonderful candidates on the Democratic side, but there is something electrifying about the way Mayor Pete Buttigieg is approaching this run…
Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy allianceby Carole Cadwalladr The WikiLeaks founder’s astonishing admission should prompt MPs finally to start asking question Last Wednesday, 11 months into Donald Trump’s new world order,…
Watch this! You won’t find a more compelling argument today for the need for human decency, being kind to others, and most importantly, being true to ourselves and our values. After years of a man…
It seems fantastical that a 37-year-old openly gay mayor from South Bend can even be in this conversation until you look at who he is. Then the question becomes: How could any sane Democrat vote…
Pete Buttigieg has a long-term generational view. He is not reacting to the media outrage cycle of the day but thinking about making the planet and our country livable for his generation. Listen to this…
Maria Ressa, chief of Philippine news site Rappler, was released on bail after being arrested at an airport in Manila, her second arrest in a month. (Reuters) By Regine CabatoMarch 29 at 4:40 AM MANILA — A Philippine…
THE MUELLER REPORT DID NOT EXONERATE TRUMP OF Self-dealing Trump family corruption Cheating on taxes Defrauding banks Lying perpetually Racism Provoking White Nationalist terror & killings Giving billionaires tax breaks Stiffing working Americans Attacking Medicare and Social…
Q: Why does AIPAC work with white nationalist Evangelical Trump bigots who shape Trump’s foreign policy in favor of Israeli hard liners?A: Evangelicals root for Israel because they think the “return” of Christ depends on…
Originally posted Monday, March 18, 2019 at Down with Tyranny Fox White Nationalist Tucker Carlson’s biggest worry about the slaughter last week in New Zealand– by a confessed Trump supporter– was worry that social media…
After years of an idiotic fascist demagogue in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump,…
Sarah Huckabee, please explain why Trump has a fetish for putting himself in compromising positions. Now Trump turns up implicated in a story about a Chinese pimp family who donates to him and the GOP…
Trump signs Bibles for members of Providence Baptist Church in Alabama with the same hands he put up women’s skirts as he assaulted them and when not hanging out with the pimp/trafficker who runs the…
If you want the State of Israel to have American support 10 years from now you’ll side with Omar and her right to speak her mind. The bullying US Israel Lobby is turning off an…
BY TIM WU The defining political fact of our time is not polarization. It’s the thwarting of a largely unified public. We are told that America is divided and polarized as never before. Yet when…
If Trump wins in 2020 here’s how group-think Democrats made it possible. Here’s why (sadly) Trump may well win a second term: Trump doesn’t need to pretend to his followers he’s lived a life of…
Republicans and their white evangelical base know, deep in their hearts, that Cohen’s portrayal of Trump as a “racist,” “a con man” and “a cheat” is true. So it is the truth they fear most…
“Climate delayers aren’t much better than climate deniers,” says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s wrong: The delayers are far worse. They know better but lack the guts to take on true evil. Thank God for the younger…
If the Roman Catholic Church was a school it would have long since been shut down for multiple cases of habitual ritual child rape and the entire faculty and administration sent to prison for life….
Trump had 2 years in which Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate — and could not persuade Congress to give him funding for a wall. What a loser. What a conman. Who would…
Labeling anyone as an anti-Semite who speaks about how Israel cynically uses evangelicals and Jewish mega-donors like Sheldon Adelson to shape US policy weakens the fight against real anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi white nationalist that have seen…
While the enabling Republicans are stuck with the misogynist-in-chief-groper, Democrats have the luxury of an entire roster of amazing, brave, vibrant, brilliant, and articulate strong women presidential candidates– any one of whom I’d be thrilled…
Here’s how to define Donald Trump: Trump is the intersection where all the con-artists, sleaze-bags, petty criminals, anti-democracy thugs, white evangelical losers and delusional racist fanatics on the planet met and fell in love with…
The roars of approval Trump received from his enabler-Republican lawmakers during his State of the Union is all you need to know about why the Republican Party — as it is now – must be…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump,…
After years of a hapless amateur in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump,…
Chances are Mike Pence might become president through Trump’s resignation, impeachment or arrest. A Pence presidency is a horrible possibility because every entity related to Trump is either bankrupt, closed or under investigation. Trump Casinos, Trump…
Every year, ordinary homeowners like my family pay a percentage of our house’s value in tax. A house is the biggest asset that most families own. If we lower and middle-class families can pay an annual wealth…
Howard Schultz and Donald Trump share a religious faith in the self-evident goodness of wealth, greed and “The Market.” This is the evil religion of planet-destroying greed. It’s the religion of empty people who put…
The last thing Democrats need in 2020 is a white male candidate (Bernie) who would be 79 on taking office. Period. We need a fresh — preferably female — brain to lead the fight to…
Roger J. Stone- the longtime petty crook/dirty-trickster colostomy bag of American politics, and adviser to the contents of that now badly leaking bag-Trump-was arrested by the FBI on Friday after being indicted in the investigation…
What’s the state of the union? There is none. What we have is the end game on planetary destruction by corporations and a dumb population that elected a reality TV small time crook who denies…
Note to young white males: When you wear a Trump hat to an anti-woman rally you are making a statement. Expect to be taken seriously. Trump hats put you on the side of white nationalist…
“Realistically, FBI Agents should not have to work at a store, stocking shelves, because they can’t feed their families, on their government job.” –Tom O’Connor, FBI Agents Association president The FBI Agents Association held a…
The absolute numbing of legal and ethical senses by Trump’s Republican enablers is a direct threat to the viability of the United States. Unable to win elections Trump’s Republican enablers resort to voter suppression, election…
Guest Blog by Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny! These days, the Senate doesn’t pass anything remotely controversial, let alone pass it unanimously. But last month they did– a bill by Tim Scott (R-SC), Cory…
Here’s the actual state of the union: a failed presidency, in which the bonds of trust between voters and leaders have been decisively severed. Where did Trump spring from?: George W. Bush and the establishment…
Even Tucker Carlson finally knows what time it is, it’s a sign that everyone — including you — should be checking their clocks Carlson’s Wednesday night monologue was part of a larger critique of American financial systems…
Donald Trump finds himself ever more dependent on Evangelical voters. Having lost control of the House of Representatives in November, and under ever closer scrutiny for his campaign’s links to the Kremlin, Trump’s instinct has been to…
People trust religious leaders to be honest and moral, and when that is gone little influence remains. Evangelicals don’t know it yet but their complicity with Trump just killed them. Where did Trump’s evangelicals come…
As the Washington Post noted: NEW YEAR’S DAY has come and gone, with agencies encompassing 25 percent of the federal government — from the National Park Service to the Justice Department — still shut down…
Trump’s idea of “Putting Christ back into Christmas”? A child dies of thirst while in custody with his agents of cruelty! Stephen Miller deliberately designed the Trump policy on migrants using inhumane conditions lack of…
This is the age of Trump. It is fitting that one of his close woman-abusing pals is a child abuser. As the Washington Post reported, power and money colluded to let a sex-obsessed monster get…
Wired magazine has released an excellent portrait of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, and so it stands to reason why Trump and his ilk are using every tool in their petty arsenal to discredit him–…
Today, I am thankful for many things; my family, my friends, and old-fashioned, dogged journalism. Please read this entire article on Vox and be thankful today for our Press and their continued work of shining…
Our faith in basic institutions- presidency, courts, Congress, media deteriorates. Climate-driven disasters grow ever more numerous. BUT … The Vietnam era was far worse. We survived Nixon’s evil. We’ll survive Trump’s lies. Don’t give up!…
Let’s be clear: What Republicans mean by “voter fraud” all comes down to one thing– brown and black people voting. To the GOP the only legitimate vote is a white vote. Trump cried “corruption” as…
How Many Must Trump and the Nationalists Kill? How Many Must Trump and the Nationalists Kill? How Many Must Trump and the Nationalists Kill? Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Sunday, November 11, 2018 After 3…
Dear California, this Massachusetts American loves you. I am SO sorry for all the troubles, fire, violence and the rest. Our “president” is a lousy misfit loser for not supporting you in your time of…
BREAKING! This is a BIG DEAL- It’s the conservative Wall Street Journal destroying Trump here! WATCH and pass on!!!! After 3 years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way…
I’m planning to watch 2018 Midterm Elections with friends and family. Are you? Let’s turn this historical moment into a celebration by joining the Vote Common Good Watch Party on Nov 6, with interesting commentators,…
Here’s why the secret (evangelical) Republican voters who dislike Trump are going to vote for Democrats– and flip the house! Here's why the secret (evangelical) Republican voters who dislike Trump are going to vote for…
We Are Christians Who Follow Jesus NOT Trump NOV 6 VOTE BLUE and Stop a Monster We Are Christians Who Follow Jesus NOT Trump NOV 6 VOTE BLUE and Stop a Monster. Posted by Frank…
Please WATCH our Vote Common Good event from Irvine, CA from last night. I’d like you to know what we are doing, why I’m in a bus away from my family doing my best to…
Trump’s GOP propagandists radicalizing the delusional American far right must not be allowed to escape responsibility for the evil consequences of their actions. Rupert Murdoch and Sons own the fearful climate where old Jews are…
I’m in California this week, on the Vote Common Good Tour, working to the last minute to flip the House. I don’t want to wake up on November 7th with ANY regrets, so I am…
Donald Trump is an instigator of violence. Today, Donald Trump has somehow sunk lower than he ever has before. He has treated a string of assassination attempts against elected officials and former presidents (!) as…
Claiming children and mothers are criminals is nothing new for Trump. And he acts out his mean xenophobic fantasies, putting kids in cages. The “caravan” of “criminals” is made up of suffering families. Trump is…
Following is an article published in USA Today by my friend Doug Pagitt, co-Founder of Vote Common Good. Please share it everywhere and remember, on November 6th, to VOTE COMMON GOOD! Doug Pagitt, Opinion contributor Published…
Following is an article by Mark DeLap in the Sioux Center News about the Vote Common Good Tour. The nationally publicized bus tour “Vote Common Good” made a stop in Sioux Center on Friday to…
Do evangelical voters today know that most evangelical leaders in the 1970s were pro-choice? Why is abortion a Republican litmus test? Because it is a fundraising gift that keeps on giving to the greedy preachers…
White American evangelicals lied about Obama and called him a Muslim as an insult. But they love Trump even though he’s rolling over for the Saudi royals the “Keepers of Mecca.” White evangelicals aren’t Christians…
From now on let’s use the words ‘Fake Christianity’ and ‘Fake Christians’ to describe the Evangelicals who submit to the leadership of someone like Trump in order to quench their thirst for power. The similarities…
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?…
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 defends murderers of journalists but won't honor his bets. What a scum….
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…
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 Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Sunday, October 7, 2018 What to do when every week feels like a year? How do…
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…
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’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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Sunday, September 23, 2018 What to do when every week feels…
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…
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…
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 –…
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: “..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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
