Steve & Schaeffer on "Crazy for God" (Re-Air)

Erik Guzman March 21st, 2008

Radio stations across the country will be re-airing the previously broadcast episode of SBE with New York Times best-selling author Frank Schaeffer. Join us as we talk about his book, 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. Use one of the options below to listen.

As the son of famous evangelists Francis and Edith Schaeffer, Frank grew up at L'Abri in Switzerland, and eventually helped to form the Religious Right.

As he worked with guys like Robertson, Falwell, and Dobson, he felt increasingly alienated. Then he chucked all (or almost all) of it. Listen to this from the dust cover of the book…

Schaeffer, whom Cal Thomas, Vice President of the Moral Majority, once introduced at a huge rally as "the best speaker in America," was reduced to stealing pork chops and smuggling them out of stores in his underwear rather than return to the fold to take on any more high-paying evangelical speaking gigs.

Man, you gotta really hate evangelical speaking gigs to smuggle pork chops in your skivvies. Either that, or you really like pork chops. Anyway, check out the show. It's a good one.

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