By Frank Schaeffer
Now, I don’t think that very many people who watch this video will like it, and I don’t like it myself, because sometimes when you tell the truth about the situation we face, it’s not popular.
Please watch and share with everyone in your network. We need to be clear-eyed for the new year.
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Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God—an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts with a lyricism that only great writers of literary nonfiction achieve. Schaeffer writes as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies of an angry God and the atheist vision of a cold, meaningless universe. Schaeffer writes that only when we abandon our hunt for certainty do we become free to create beauty, give love and find peace. Available now at Amazon.
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In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a bohemian novelist living in “Volvo driving, higher-education worshipping” Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the United States Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family’s experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve. Available now at Amazon.
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I agree with you on this, Frank. We should have no “pie in the sky” illusions about what still lies ahead. That said, it will take voices like yours and others to encourage us and give us hope that we may, in fact, walk into that light at the end of the tunnel.
So many thing on point. We are a nation of poorly educated, selfish slobs. Other nations mock us and we don’t even realize- we are so nationalistic. About what? Our government is corrupt and incompetent. And we send Mitch back to Washington to lead the pack. Again. Why? Because his state is starved in every sense. And if we draw the lines “just” right the real constituents won’t even be missed in the count! Sickening.
BUT without hope, there’ll never be a heal. Without progressives willing to fight for our voices, nothing will ever change.
However you pray, please say one for 2021 and the United States of America.
How can I access the video of “Here’s the Truth: 2021 is Going to Be Worse 2020.” I have watched it a couple of times, but it now seems to be blocked for viewing. I want to share this message with some like-minded friends.