patience with god
GRITtv: Frank Schaeffer: Why is Obama Supporting Hate?
Would President Obama speak at a prayer breakfast organized by the KKK? Would Jim Wallis and other "progressive" Christians attend? Then what will they be doing today at the National Prayer Breakfast founded and sponsored by the notorious gay-bashing "The Family" fringe far right group? (I ask this as a practicing progressive Christian and repentant former religious right leader). So says Frank Schaeffer, wondering why Obama can't seem to break with the tradition of the White House National Prayer Breakfast. Schaeffer is the author of Crazy for God and Patience with God, and has helped organize an alternative prayer meeting.
Email this pageGRITtv: Welcome to Irrational America
A year ago, we had a popular new president and the country seemed ready to make some major changes. Now, we've dissolved into anger, infighting, and the most cohesive group in the country at times seems to be the "tea party patriots." What happened to rational thought, reasonable argument, disputes that didn't end in name-calling and learning from those who disagree with us? We ask Susan Jacoby, author of "The Age of American Unreason" and contributor to the Washington Post, and Frank Schaeffer, author of "Crazy for God" and "Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism)," to talk about the problems with our politics, our discourse, our religious disputes, and why "moderates" don't get off the hook for this.
GRITtv: Frank Schaeffer: Whose Pact with the Devil?
Frank Schaeffer grew up in the religious right and knew Pat Robertson well -- he tells the story in his books "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" and "Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism)," and appeared recently on our show to talk about it. When Robertson made headlines last week saying that an earthquake hit Haiti because of a "deal with the devil," Schaeffer was moved to respond in a blog post, and he joined us to offer his thoughts on who's really cursed.
