false 958805 3 <div>Frank Schaeffer grew up in Switzerland's L'Abri, an idealistic community founded by his parents, the American evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer. By the time he was 19, his parents had achieved global fame as best-selling authors and speakers, l'Abri had become a mecca for spiritual seekers worldwide &#8212; from Barbara Bush to Timothy Leary &#8212; and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. By the age of 23, he had directed two multi-part religious documentaries and had helped instigate the marriage between the American evangelical community and the anti-abortion movement. But as he spoke before thousands in arenas around America, published his own evangelical bestseller, and worked with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jack Kemp, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson, Schaeffer felt alienated, precipitating his own crisis of faith and eventually resulting in his departure. <br><br>Schaeffer has since become a successful secular author. He was reduced to stealing pork chops from the grocery store in LA, rather than take on any more high-paying evangelical speaking gigs.<br><br>With its up-close portraits of the leading figures of the American evangelical movement, <i>Crazy for God</i> is a uniquely revealing and powerful memoir, which tells its story with empathy, humor, and bite.</div> 943715 5 10 2007 Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back total:238|5:39|4:88|3:72|2:29|1:10| 238 831 623 100 4 10 false false Sun May 04 16:16:23 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 16:18:41 -0700 2008
When, in 1997, Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of American evangelicalism, decided to pay tribute to the late Francis Schaeffer, the theologian and popular writer must have seemed like an odd choice to those not familiar with the twis...more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Jul 28 10:16:38 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 16:37:41 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 10:16:38 -0700 2008 4 4 false false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 09:00:14 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 19:40:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 22:29:20 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 00:05:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 07:12:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 07:54:56 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Sep 22 11:22:24 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 11:41:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 02:40:58 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 05:43:54 -0800 2008
It's awfully funny at times, a bit of an evangelical kiss-and-tell, and I marveled how Schaeffer could remember what each woman was wearing 30+ years ago.

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As a former evangelical I was very interested in this book since I also left the movement and had to deal with family members who still do not ag...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 13:06:22 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 13:51:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 13:43:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 16:37:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 13:44:22 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 12:07:48 -0700 2008 Francis Schaeffer, the famous Christian writer and thinker of the 60s and 70s. It's a compelling personal story, and I have a hard time picking the section that was most interesting and absorbing. Frank Schaeffer's childhood growing up in Switzerla...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 23 13:21:42 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 22 22:09:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jun 06 01:31:52 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 09:29:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 01:31:52 -0700 2008
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