In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer
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  1. Atima Omara Asks "What Happens When Democrats Refuse to Learn?"

    2d ago

    Atima Omara Asks "What Happens When Democrats Refuse to Learn?"

    Frank Schaeffer talks with political strategist and author Atima Omara about her new book The Instigators and the deeper failures shaping American politics today. They discuss race, religion, Trumpism, Project 2025, Kamala Harris, media ecosystems, the Democratic Party’s blind spots, and the historic role Black women have played in defending democracy while rarely receiving full recognition or power. Atima also reflects on growing up in Virginia as the daughter of Ugandan immigrants and what years inside political organizing taught her about how change actually happens. _____ LINKS https://atima-omara.com Our June It Has to Be Read. offering, The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (And What We Can Learn from Them) on Bookshop _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    1h 8m
  2. Michael O. Emerson on Race, White Evangelicalism, and Christian Nationalism

    Jun 5

    Michael O. Emerson on Race, White Evangelicalism, and Christian Nationalism

    Frank Schaeffer talks with sociologist Michael O. Emerson about the updated edition of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America. They discuss why racial division inside white evangelical culture has intensified over the last 25 years, how Christian nationalism reshaped American politics, and why churches often failed to confront segregation while other institutions succeeded. Frank also shares personal reflections on growing up in Francis Schaeffer’s community in Switzerland and living in apartheid South Africa. A grounded conversation about race, religion, power, memory, and the America we built. _____ LINKS https://www.bakerinstitute.org/expert/michael-o-emerson https://christiansmith.nd.edu Our June It Has to Be Read. offering, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Second Edition on Bookshop _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    1h 24m
  3. Elise Ann Allen on Pope Leo XIV, Friendship, Humanity, and Moral Leadership

    May 29

    Elise Ann Allen on Pope Leo XIV, Friendship, Humanity, and Moral Leadership

    Frank Schaeffer talks with Vatican journalist Elise Ann Allen about her new biography of Pope Leo XIV and why the new pope has already become such an important moral figure for many people around the world. Elise was the first journalist to interview Pope Leo after his election and shares personal stories about their friendship, his years serving the poor in Peru, and the humility that continues to shape him even now. The conversation also explores faith, politics, AI, immigration, polarization, and what happens when human dignity is forgotten. A thoughtful and deeply human conversation about leadership, conscience, and hope. _____ LINKS https://cruxnow.com/author/elise-ann-allen Our May It Has to Be Read. offering, Pope Leo XIV on Bookshop _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    59 min
  4. America 250 and the Return of Christian Nationalism with Keri Ladner, PhD

    May 25 ·  Bonus

    America 250 and the Return of Christian Nationalism with Keri Ladner, PhD

    A conversation about power, fear, nationalism, and the rewriting of American history. Keri Ladner joins Frank Schaeffer for a conversation about the rise of Christian nationalism and the mythology surrounding America’s founding. They discuss the Religious Right, the Seven Mountain Mandate, January 6th, white extremism, and the growing influence of authoritarian politics inside evangelical culture. The conversation also turns toward immigration, fear, nationalism, neo-confederacy, and the role of powerful tech figures shaped by apartheid-era politics and ideology who are reshaping public life in America and beyond. _____ LINKS Keri Ladner on Substack American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom on Bookshop _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    57 min
  5. Jonathan Tepper on Grief, Addiction, Empathy, and Growing Up Missionary

    May 22

    Jonathan Tepper on Grief, Addiction, Empathy, and Growing Up Missionary

    Jonathan Tepper joins Frank Schaeffer to discuss his memoir Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction. The conversation explores growing up in Madrid during the AIDS crisis, missionary life among heroin addicts, the loss of Jonathan’s younger brother, literature, homeschooling, faith, suffering, and the role empathy plays in shaping human life. Frank and Jonathan also reflect on Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, prayer, grief, and the troubling loss of compassion inside modern American evangelical politics. _____ LINKS https://jonathan-tepper.com Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    57 min
  6. Exploring A Writing Marriage with Lori Carlson-Hijuelos

    May 15

    Exploring A Writing Marriage with Lori Carlson-Hijuelos

    I haven’t been this struck or fallen in love this fast with a book in my life. I started reading it to my wife and couldn’t stop. I don’t usually react to books this way. I picked this one up, got a few pages in, and went upstairs to get my wife so I could read it to her. I thought I’d read a page or two. I ended up reading fifty or sixty pages out loud before we had to get on with the day. I’ve never done that before with any book connected to this podcast. So that’s really why I was so excited to have this conversation. This is a discussion with Lori Carlson-Hijuelos about her book A Writing Marriage, and about the life she shared with her husband, the writer Oscar Hijuelos. We talk about writing and faith and the literary world, but mostly we talk about marriage. What it looks like when two people build a life together over decades. And what it’s like when that life changes after one of them is gone. _____ LINKS https://lorimariecarlson.com A Writing Marriage at Bookshop _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    1h 18m
  7. Tia Levings on "I Belong to Me" and the Long Work of Healing Religious Trauma

    May 12

    Tia Levings on "I Belong to Me" and the Long Work of Healing Religious Trauma

    I talked with Tia Levings about what it’s like to come out of a world that shaped you completely and what happens after you leave; not just the belief system, but the habits, the fears, the voice in your head that doesn’t feel like yours. Her new book, I Belong to Me, is really about that part. Not just what happened to her, but how you put yourself back together after. We talked about complicity. About how you can’t just blame the system forever. At some point you have to look at yourself and ask what you carried forward. We talked about grief too. Not just what you lost, but what never got to happen, and what it takes to become someone you can live with. _____ LINKS https://tialevings.com/ https://substack.com/@tialevings I Belong to Me on Bookshop _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    1h 12m
  8. The Myth of Good Christian Parenting

    May 5

    The Myth of Good Christian Parenting

    Frank talks with Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, authors of The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, about evangelical parenting, obedience, spanking, authority, and the long shadow of family values politics. This is a personal conversation about a world Frank knew from the inside, and about what happens when fear and control are called faith. _____ https://www.marissaburt.com https://www.kkramermcginnis.com The Myth of Good Christian Parenting _____ I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times. Please subscribe to this Podcast, In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer, on your favorite platform, and to my Substack, It Has to Be Said.  Thanks! Every subscription helps create, build, sustain and put voice to this movement for truth. Subscribe to It Has to Be Said. The Gospel of Zip will be released in print and on Amazon Kindle, and as a full video on YouTube and Substack that you can watch or listen to for free. Support the show _____ In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of The Gospel of Zip. Learn more at https://www.thegospelofzip.com/ Follow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.com https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaeffer https://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_art https://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_art https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_schaeffer https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

    1h 23m
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