Eric Metaxas spoke at First Baptist Church on Sunday. Jeffress introduced him as “one of the premiere Christian thinkers of our day” and “the Francis Schaeffer of our generation.” Jeffress has always been prone to hyperbole, but his comments about...
Watch Christian speaker and author Os Guinness deliver a speech titled 1776 vs. 1789: the Roots of the Present Crisis. It is part of an event hosted by the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Someone sent it to me...
Frank Schaeffer, the son of mid-century evangelical public theologian Francis Schaeffer, worked very closely with his father, Jerry Falwell Sr, Pat Robertson, and others in the creation of the Christian Right. About thirty years ago, he turned his back on...
At Front Page Mag, Mark Tooley has written a pretty scathing critique of the work of Franky Schaeffer (he now goes by “Frank Schaeffer”), the son of the late theologian/Christian cultural critic Francis Schaeffer. The piece is tough on Franky,...
Over at U.S. Intellectual History, Andrew Hartman has written a very thorough and deeply satisfying piece on David Hollinger’s recent assertion that the history of Enlightenment thought in America resides within religious circles rather than outside of them. As Hartman...
At today’s New York Times, Mark Oppenheimer writes about Frank Schaeffer, the son of the late evangelical thinker and writer Francis Schaeffer. Francis has been in the news lately after Ryan Lizza argued in a New Yorker essay that his […]
While I was away on vacation there was a lot of commentary in the evangelical blogosphere about Ryan Lizza’s article on Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann. Lizza claimed that Michelle Bachmann was influenced by the late evangelical intellectual Francis Schaeffer, […]
