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

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 Review

I am part of the evangelical community (the European part, that is far distanced from republican, far right, bush loving American evangelicalism). I actually pastor an Evangelical church(and find myself agreeing on most of what Frank says, and am also a big fan of the Orthodox church):). I am brought up in the same type of home as Frank, and I relate to some of what he experienced.

Anyways this is a great read. I disagree with some of the other reviews here (and elsewhere) that conclude that Frank is a bitter, offensive, get back at my parents kind of author and man. Far from it, he writes it as he understood his background and parents in view of a long lived life. He balances the good and the bad not only regarding his famous parents, but also from his own life. Its a liberating and fun read!

Frank has important and true things to say to the evangelical community and to the many fundamentalists that are part of it. And there is much to learn from his experience.If you don't want to read to learn, read it for the pure pleasure of a fantastic read and a fantastic and crazy story!

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 Overview

By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer’s parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical bestseller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson. But all the while Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, precipitating a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his departure—even if it meant losing everything.

With honesty, empathy, and humor, Schaeffer delivers “a brave and important book” (Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog)—both a fascinating insider’s look at the American evangelical movement and a deeply affecting personal odyssey of faith.

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