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Patience with God

From the best-selling and controversial author of Keeping Faith and Crazy for God, a spirited, witty, and provocative challenge to atheists and fundamentalists alike.

From Patience with God:

“Why do I write about faith, religion, and religious people in so many of my books? What’s it to me if I agree or disagree with the New Atheists and with all religious fundamentalists? First, one writes about the life one has experienced. I’ve lived religion. Second, I don’t like to be forced to choose between lousy alternatives.”

Frank Schaeffer has a problem with Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Dennett, and the rest of the New Atheists—the self-anointed “Brights.” He also has a problem with the Rick Warrens and Tim LaHayes of the world. The problem is that he doesn’t see much of a difference between the two camps. As Schaeffer puts it, they “often share the same fallacy: truth claims that reek of false certainties. I believe that there is an alternative that actually matches the way life is lived rather than how we usually talk about belief.”

Sparing no one and nothing, including himself and his fiery evangelical past, and invoking subtleties too easily ignored by the pontificators, Schaeffer adds much-needed nuance to the conversation. Schaeffer says: “My writing has smoked out so many individuals who, like me, seem to be thinking about the same questions. I’m assuming there are many more of us. I hope that this book will provide a meeting place for us, the scattered refugees of what I’ll call The Church of Hopeful Uncertainty.”

Frank Schaeffer is the author of the New York Times bestseller Keeping Faith and, most recently, the memoir Crazy for God, which was featured on “Fresh Air.” He and his wife, Genie, live in Massachusetts and have three children.

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Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times best selling author. Richard Eder in the Los Angeles Times described Frank’s writing as, “A rich brew of cross-cultural comedy.”  The British newspaper the Guardian says Frank’s work is “funny and wonderfully observed.”

Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director and producer of four low-budget Hollywood features he has described as “pretty terrible,” and a best-selling author of both fiction and nonfiction.  Along the way he also did a “successful” stint as his famous evangelical father’s (Francis Schaeffer) sidekick.  This was just before Frank left the evangelical world. In 1990 he joined the Greek Orthodox Church.

Frank’s three semi-biographical novels about growing up in a fundamentalist mission -- Portofino, Zermatt, and Saving Grandma -- have a worldwide following, having been translated into nine languages and receiving international critical acclaim. 

BABY JACK, a novel about service, sacrifice and the class division between who serves in the military and who does not, is Frank’s most recent novel. USA TODAY said of BABY JACK, “The reader marvels at how Schaeffer makes this concise chorus of social conviction moving and memorable.”

Frank’s latest book, a memoir, 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, has been acclaimed widely.  Jane Smiley, writing in The Nation (Oct 15, 2007) said:  “Crazy for God offers considerable insight into several issues that have bedeviled American life in the past thirty years, and... when taken in conjunction with [Frank Schaeffer's] other works (notably the Calvin Becker Trilogy, Portofino, Zermatt and Saving Grandma), it gives us not only a handle on the mess we are in but also quite a few laughs...”

Joel Brown wrote in the Boston Globe (December 18, 2007), “That Crazy for God isn't just another James Frey-style memoir of personal dysfunction becomes clear with the subtitle, it's alternately hilarious and excruciating.”

Jeff Sharlet (a contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine) reviewed Crazy For God in The New Statesman (Oct 29, 2007).  He wrote:  “Crazy for God is a brilliant book, a portrait of fundamentalism painted in broad strokes with streaks of nuance, the twinned coming-of-age story of Frank and the Christian right.”

Frank’s nonfiction also includes the NYT bestseller, KEEPING FAITH-A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps and AWOL-The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes From Military Service and How It Hurts Our Country. Tom Brokaw wrote:  “AWOL drives home, with hope and respect for our forebears, the need to address the evaporating sense of duty and service to our nation.”  Senator John S. McCain wrote:  “Frank Schaeffer has done our country a great service with the publication of AWOL.” 

Frank is a popular blogger for the Huffington Post.  He has also written for USA Today, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun and many other publications on topics ranging from his critique of American right wing fundamentalism to his experiences as a military parent and novelist.

Frank has been a commentator on both NPR’s All Things Considered and for the NEWS HOUR with Jim Lehrer as well as a frequent guest on C-SPAN Book TV.  Frank has appeared on Oprah, 20/20, the NBC Today Show and many other TV and radio programs.

Frank lives in near Boston with his wife Genie. They have three children.

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(Feb 26, 2008 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)

Schaeffer's three semi-biographical novels about growing up in a fundamentalist mission: "Portofino," "Zermatt," "Saving Grandma" have a worldwide following and have been translated into 9 languages. "BABY JACK," a novel about the Marines, sacrifice, God, the class division between who serves and who does not, was published in October of 2006.

Schaeffer has written for USA Today, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and many other publications on topics ranging from his critique of American right wing fundamentalism to his experiences as a military parent and novelist and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post website. He has also been interviewed on just about every major talk radio show in the country and been a commentator on both NPR's All Things Considered and several times for the NEWS HOUR and Jim Lehrer. His nonfiction includes "Keeping Faith-A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps" and "AWOL-The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes From Military Service and How It Hurts Our Country."

Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times best selling author. The Los Angeles Times described Frank’s writing as, “A rich brew of cross-cultural comedy.”  The British newspaper the Guardian says: “funny and wonderfully observed.”
 
Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director and producer of four low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as “pretty terrible,” and a best selling author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Frank’s three semi-biographical novels about growing up in a fundamentalist mission: Portofino, Zermatt, Saving Grandma have  a worldwide following and have been translated into nine languages. BABY JACK, a novel about service, sacrifice and the class division between who serves and who does not, was published in October of 2006.

USA TODAY said of BABY JACK;

 
Frank’s latest book is a memoir, 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 has been acclaimed widely. Jane Smiley writing in The Nation (Oct 15, 2007) said: “Crazy for God offers considerable insight into several issues that have bedeviled American life in the past thirty years, and... when taken in conjunction with [Frank Schaeffer's] other works (notably the Calvin Becker Trilogy, Portofino, Zermatt and Saving Grandma), it gives us not only a handle on the mess we are in but also quite a few laughs...”

Joel Brown, writes in the Boston Globe (December 18, 2007) “That Crazy for God isn't just another James Frey-style memoir of personal dysfunction becomes clear with the subtitle, it's alternately hilarious and excruciating.”
 
Jeff Sharlet (a contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine) reviewed Crazy For God in The New Statesman (Oct 29 2007). He wrote: “Crazy for God is a brilliant book, a portrait of fundamentalism painted in broad strokes with streaks of nuance, the twinned coming-of-age story of Frank and the Christian right.”

Betty Smartt Carter writing in Christianity Today International/Books & Culture magazine (January/February 2008) writes: “So now, this year, comes Crazy for God, an autobiography that's very like Portofino in its tangible beauty and humor, but with more contrition and a little less fiendish lampooning... Schaeffer describes a life that was by turns happy, difficult, idyllic, and completely nuts. Polio and dyslexia seemed like bumps on the road compared to the burden of growing up in a family that set out to save the world one intellectual at a time. If he spares anyone here, it's not himself. And we forgive him for his shortcomings, partly because he's a world-class storyteller... In other words, keep writing books, Frank. You're good at it.”
 
Frank’s nonfiction also includes the NYT bestseller, Keeping Faith-A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps and AWOL-The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes From Military Service and How It Hurts Our Country. Tom Brokaw writes: “AWOL drives home, with hope and respect for our forebears, the need to address the evaporating sense of duty and service to our nation.” Senator John S. McCain writes: “Frank Schaeffer has done our country a great service with the publication of AWOL.”

Frank has written for USA Today, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun and other publications on topics ranging from his critique of American right wing fundamentalism to his experiences as a military parent and novelist and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post website. He has been a commentator on both NPR’s All Things Considered and for the NEWS HOUR with Jim Lehrer and a frequent guest on C-SPAN Book TV.

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Frank Schaeffer

"Painstakingly honest and
courageous."-Andre Dubus III


"Brutally honest… offers particularly eye-opening accounts of his [Schaeffer's]  personal encounters with the likes of Pat Robertson, James Dobson et al."--Booklist

IN BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE OCT 25, 2007

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