Schaeffer: Crazy for God

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Religion • Mon Dec 14, 2009 at 7:40 pm PST • Views: 1,416

Here’s a fascinating interview with religious right apostate Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Calvinist preacher Francis Schaeffer, talking about the epiphany that led him to renounce his upbringing, from Point of Inquiry.

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And here’s Schaeffer’s latest book, a memoir of growing up in the heart of the religious right: 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.

(Hat tip: Summer.)

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