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

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Overview

Frank Schaeffer grew up in Switzerland's L'Abri, an idealistic community founded by his parents, the American evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer. By the time he was 19, his parents had achieved global fame as best-selling authors and speakers, l'Abri had become a mecca for spiritual seekers worldwide — from Barbara Bush to Timothy Leary — and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. By the age of 23, he had directed two multi-part religious documentaries and had helped instigate the marriage between the American evangelical community and the anti-abortion movement. But as he spoke before thousands in arenas around America, published his own evangelical bestseller, and worked with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jack Kemp, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson, Schaeffer felt alienated, precipitating his own crisis of faith and eventually resulting in his departure. Schaeffer has since become a successful secular author. He was reduced to stealing pork chops from the grocery store in LA, rather than take on any more high-paying evangelical speaking gigs. With its up-close portraits of the leading figures of the American evangelical movement, Crazy for God is a uniquely revealing and powerful memoir, which tells its story with empathy, humor, and bite.

Editorial Reviews

Booklist
Sounding a refreshing variation on the I-was-lost-but-now-I'm-found theme, Schaeffer's apology rings true.
Boston Globe
Crazy for God isn't just another James Frey-style memoir of personal dysfunction.It's an alternately hilarious and excruciating look at Schaeffer's life with his Christian missionary parents and after he left their orbit.
Christianity Today's Books & Culture
Memoir obviously demands introspection, and Schaeffer doesn't hold back.Schaeffer describes a life that was by turns happy, difficult, idyllic, and completely nuts.He's a world-class storyteller.He can make us laugh, make us wince, and make us really think about things, all at the same time.
Jane Smiley
It offers considerable insight into several issues that have bedeviled American life in the past thirty years, and while it isn't scholarly, when taken in conjunction with his other works.it gives us not only a handle on the mess we are in but also quite a few laughs.
The Nation
New Statesman
A brilliant book, a portrait of fundamentalism painted in broad strokes with streaks of nuance, the twinned coming-of-age story of Frank and the Christian right. But this story moves in more than one direction: both coming-of-age narratives are pulled against the current by the tragedy of Francis Schaeffer, a man who let his children, biological and ideological, guide him down a path from which he'd spent his whole life struggling to get off.
—Jeff Sharlet
Washington Times
A story about the dangers of inauthentic faith.An important book.A cautionary tale about the damaging effects on children whose parents have an excess of spiritual pride.
Library Journal

Schaeffer (Portofino) shares his personal responses and reactions to his mostly unsupervised upbringing in L'Abri, an idealistic, isolated, intellectual Christian community in Switzerland. This community initially hosted collegians, but with the Sixties and all that came with it, it grew to include people of international significance. Young Schaeffer mixed with them all, despite feeling trapped and rebellious. At times, he was haunted by the thought that he should have pursued his early career success in painting. Nevertheless, and despite his lack of education, Schaeffer became an able speaker and successfully produced Christian films and wrote numerous books. In a reaction that did not come as a surprise, he completely broke from all his avenues of evangelical Christian fame to struggle in the secular world, at one point shoplifting so that he could eat. His attempts in secular film (e.g., Baby on Board, with Judge Reinhold) failed, but he has found some success as a best-selling secular author. This is not just a book about rejecting Christian evangelicalism. It has parallels in secular culture and is an honest read about family life and its challenges. Suitable and recommended for large libraries.
—George Westerlund

Kirkus Reviews
Interesting glimpses into the burgeoning religious right folded into a deeply personal memoir. After World War II, Schaeffer's evangelical parents founded a mission in Switzerland called L'Abri, where he grew up. A large portion of the narrative is dedicated to those years and his conflicting memories of them. At times the author describes his father as a moody, even abusive man; at other points he speaks of him with great respect and love. He depicts his mother as a juggernaut who wore her piety on her sleeve and indoctrinated the children, yet his devotion to this "sexy saint" borders on oedipal. Likewise, he alternately paints his youth as an idyllic utopia and a period of boiling frustrations. At all times, however, Schaeffer is brutally honest. Pot-smoking, group masturbation, running away from boarding school, even the tricks he played on a mentally handicapped woman who lived at L'Abri-each unflattering incident is related in vivid detail. During the author's young-adult years, his parents became quite well known, and he was solicited to work with his father on the 1974 evangelical documentary series How Then Should We Live? Schaeffer encountered many figures in the increasingly public and political evangelical movement; he offers particularly eye-opening accounts of his personal encounters with the likes of Pat Robertson, James Dobson et al. He became convinced that he did not fit into the evangelical mold and in fact had simply been living and speaking about matters in which he had been steeped since birth but basically never truly believed. His break from the movement and what followed in his life comprise the final chapters. Candid, sometimes angry and clearly cathartic for theauthor. Agent: Jennifer Lyons/Writers House LLC

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780306817502
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 9/29/2008
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 165,531
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Frank Schaeffer was born in Switzerland to the famous American evangelical theologian and evangelist Dr. Francis Schaeffer. After a period in Hollywood as a documentary and feature film director, he became a bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction. Schaeffer has written for USA Today, The Washington Post, Reader's Digest, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times. His previous works about the American Evangelical movement include Portofino and Zermatt. He has written the bestselling Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps, about his son's service in the military, which he followed with Faith of Our Sons: A Father's Wartime Diary, and AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service. Frank now resides in Boston and New York City with his wife, Genie.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 4, 2008

    Life is messy, even for Christians

    This a sometimes serious, surprisingly funny, but honest portrayal of what life was like growing up as the son of one of the most well-know evangelical leaders of the 1960's and '70's. As the son of a minister myself, I can relate to being 'folded into' into the ministry of my parents. I can also relate to having lots of strangers in my home night and day and a sense, whether real or imagined, that the my parents thought 'the work of the Lord' was more important than me or my interests. I can remember, like Frank Schaeffer, being forbidden to dance, go to movies or even join the cub scouts because it was on the same night as mid-week prayer service. I , like Schaeffer, felt different from all the other kids. And like Frank Schaeffer, my parents had their battles and my preacher dad had an explosive temper. Like Frank's dad, my dad never showed his temper outside the home. It made me also question my faith and Christianity. Unlike Frank however, I now consider myself an agnostic for several reasons, only one being the way I was raised.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 18, 2008

    Should have waited

    This book is an interesting look into the life of Frankie Schaeffer the son of prominent Christians Edith and Francis Schaeffer of L'Abri fame and gives the reader a perspective of the ups and downs of being the offspring of extremely busy, driven people during an exciting period of time in American politics. In addition, Schaeffer's writing style means easy reading, and insightful, interesting, and humorous takes on some sensitive topics. But, I rated this book just ok because when you get down to it, most of the book is about what appears to be self-justification for questionable behavior on his part. In striving to justify himself he trashes the world around him, including his parents and ends up bringing their honesty and integrity into question. In the process he proceeds to mock not only them, who he confessed loved him dearly, but also associates and teachers. And, he does so in a manner that can only be termed ¿cruel¿ especially to those unable to defend themselves at this point in time. To his credit he does manage to recognize and confess some of his failures, but seems to lack the fortitude to acknowledge they were based on his desires, not his parents or peers. After all, he admits to being the dominant personally who was driven to have his way. And, by taking advantage of his parents love for him, always seemed to get it to the detriment of the L¿Abri community. As someone who respected Edith and Francis Schaeffer particularly for their work in the area of Christian Apologetics, and having talked with a number of individuals whose lives were changed for the positive by having had the opportunity to spend time at L¿Abri, I found his treatment of his parents and many of his friends, disappointing. It is an interesting book, but I think it may have been written too soon. Perhaps the writer is still on a journey of sorts when it comes to deciding who he really is and what he believes about his parents and the events that transpired. I wish he had waited a few more years down the road. Time has a way of putting things in perspective and I suspect the picture painted by Schaeffer is a bit distorted by guilt and perhaps disappointment in self. I would like to see him write more on the same topic 5 years from now.

    7 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2008

    Thanks for sharing your journey!

    I just finished reading, 'Crazy For God', my how this story hit home for me in our journey of faith and life. I know that no two journeys are the same, but the lessons learned and the perspectives shared in this journal of life seem to touch on some familiar themes in our life. To Frank I would say - 'Thank you for your courage and your families courage to tell your story! I am deeply touched by your boldness to tell this story with honest vulnerable transparency. I love the fact that you took a step of courage and shared your doubts of God and even at one point questioned his existence. You are putting to paper what all of us have wrestled with in our minds, but are too fearful to admit. Thanks for sharing the worts of your humanity as well! It was a breath of fresh cool clean air to breath.'

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2007

    Important Reading for Courageous Believers

    I just finished reading this book, and am very thankful that I did. Having lauded Francis Schaeffer back when I was a college student, and thinking that he was the 'thinking person's' Christian, I now see the struggles within the man and the family. What a shame that Francis Schaeffer himself wasn't able to write about his own torn inner self so that we humans who thought we knew him could know him even better than what his son has been able to provide, insight-wise. However, the book that Frank 'the little sh*t from Switzerland' as others called him, has written, is more than good enough. I found myself and my own struggles in many of his. That whole feeling of being a traitor if you question what you had heretofore believed. For the past few years, I have gone through my own crisis of faith, wondering what I believed, or indeed, even IF I believed. I find I still do believe--for now--but not as I did before I had so many unanswerable questions. It's interesting to me that Frank Schaeffer does not get more explicit about his own faith, how it looks, what he believes in, but focuses more on how nutty his upbringing was and how some of the family have mellowed with time, and others have not been able to get over their allegiance to what they were once taught to consider gospel truth. His description of his wife Genie leads the reader to believe that her love and acceptance of him 'teenagers when they married' has a lot to do with him being able to be himself. I congratulate them on their commitment to their marriage and to each other. Rather than think of Frank Schaeffer's 'walking away from the faith of his childhood' as some kind of failure, I think it more indicative of the maturing of faith that his father and mother probably would have loved to be able to give themselves and each other, had there not been such external 'and internal' pressure to continue on the same constricted path that they had originally begun to forge. This is good reading for anyone who calls himself a Christian--whether you are one who thinks you have all the answers, or, as Frank Schaeffer himself admits--has often been wrong about what he believed.

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  • Posted May 6, 2009

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    emotional thinking

    This guy based his crusade against abortion on emotional thinking. It did not take into account the horrendous consequences of an unwanted pregnancy or child. Nor how it would split the US apart. I believe he wrote this to absolve his conscious from being a general screw-up when he was a wild teen and getting a girl to go to bed with him and getting pregnant. Also, his subsequent mea culpa for have too much ego and getting all the money from his presentations, PLEASE give me a break one whole paragraph. Then he tantalizingly throws out barbs against Billy Graham, James Dobson, Jerry Fallwell, Pat Robertson, etc. But these are just acusations of greed and averice (which most thinking progressives are very aware of). But the writer does nothing to back up his allegations.
    Finally, he champions the unborn but does nothing for the born. There is the rub. Also, he starts in about partial birth abortions it is obvious he knows nothing about which he speaks. I suggest a volunteering in a big metropolitan hosp for about a month and see how many of these are done. I was in nursing for 35 years and attended many birthings and not once did I see this procedure done. My understanding is it is only done in extreamus to save the mother's life and cannot be reconciled any other way. I would suggest before Mr. Shaefer goes on another money making crusade (that he does not have a clear understanding of) that he do some research first. I might add a lot of research.
    Thank you

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  • Posted September 26, 2009

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    A Much-Needed Expose

    Not much more to say than that we need many, many more books that tell the truth in an era of lies, propaganda, and media manipulation. That it is a fantastic blend of history and memoir makes it all the better. That this story has been ruminating for decades, shaping domestic and foreign policy, religious freedoms and rights, and is ultimately destroying America...well, it not only sickens me, but scares me to death. Plus, I had a few laughs, as well! Frank Schaeffer is a gifted writer.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 2, 2007

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    Imagine trying to explain your life - good, bad, inconsistent, embarrassments - everything. That's pretty much what Frank Schaeffer has done in ¿Crazy for God.¿ Having read many of the criticisms from those who can't seem to come to grips with the concept of Francis and Edith Schaeffer being less than models of perfection, I have to question whether those individuals finished reading this memoir. I find a Frank Schaeffer who painstakingly tries to share his struggles, doubts, shortcomings, regrets, failures, and - finally - his coming to terms with his father, mother, wife, children, and faith. I find Mr. Schaeffer to be much harder on himself 'and his work' in this book than on anyone else. Schaeffer does something else - he allows us to get the perspectives of his friends, siblings, and children. He seems to give them all the room they need to share their memories and offer their slants on the events in their shared experiences. Chapter 25 is a must read for everyone who has ever attended a prayer meeting. Having more than a passing familiarity with at least two of the worlds Mr. Schaeffer exposes 'the political and the evangelical', I find his accounts to ring with more truth than most in either camp would care to admit. In the end, we find a man who is more interested in dealing with life in all of its inconsistencies and nuances than in defining everything in a simplistic ¿black/white - us/them¿ fashion. I would recommend this book for anyone who is ready to wrestle with some of their own preconceived notions about themselves and their beliefs.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2007

    Courage and Crazy

    Thought provoking, funny, courageous, and poignant. What a fascinating life. In his new book, Crazy for God, Frank Schaeffer is willing to share his journey as it winds its way through private and public personalities and situations. The youngest child of the famous and gifted Francis and Edith Schaeffer, Frank brings us his unique story with particular authority, credibility and courage. It takes courage to speak up now while so many people in this book are still living. They are in the American and European public as well as in his family. This memoir is Frank's journey, with his experiences, continued faith, and open critical self-evaluation. We should all be so honest

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Insider Tell All

    While Schaeffer gives a great behind the scenes look at the rise of fundementalist christianity and the religious right during the 70s theres a hint of envy here too. Seems like Schaeffer making his dad into the one true pioneer of those days and every other fundementalist leader a copy cat who imitaded his fathers genius if not simple minded charlatens. Schaeffer does the usual apologia for his own shortcomings and ruthlessly washes the famlies dirty laundry in public mostly to excuse and justify himself while laying claim to his fathers mantle for his own aggrandizement. Horrifically self serving the book reads like a confession at an AA meeting.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 2, 2009

    Crazy for God

    The Author certainly did have a personal committment to details of his experience. Some of the details were not of interest to me as a reader but the overall content and conclusions I DID resonate with.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 29, 2007

    A reviewer

    This book is a great indictment of the religious right in America told from the perspective of someone who was there from the beginning. It is insightful and at the same time amusing as it puts a face to the evangelical movement and gives some insights into how it started, how it was twisted, and where it went wrong.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 6, 2011

    Decent memoir

    This memoir is well-written, but I found my enjoyment hampered by the unlikeable nature of most of the main figures. While this provides evidence that Schaeffer was probably presenting an accurate portrait (not least of himself), it makes it hard to root for any of them.

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