Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway

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Overview

With hilarious scenes from his childhood alternating with acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn Becks and the Sarah Palins are really all about.

Here’s a hint: sex.

The central character in this “startlingly honest” (Booklist) memoir is the author’s far-from-prudish evangelical mother, who sweetly but bizarrely provides startling juxtapositions of the religious and the sensual throughout young Frank’s childhood. To quote Max Blumenthal, the author of Republican Gomorrah: “Few writers command Frank Schaeffer’s intimate understanding of right-wing radicalism, and even fewer are able to share their insight as entertainingly and with as much moral weight.”

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Schaeffer, public speaker, filmmaker, novelist, and former fundamentalist Christian, presents the third book in his "God Trilogy" (Crazy for God; Patience with God). His title refers to three topics that are very important to his thinking and intimately tied together. Schaeffer learned all about sex and God at his mother's knee—unlike most parents, she explicitly told him on many occasions her feelings and ideas about both in great detail (including, for sex, the physical aspects). Schaeffer's family believed the Bible to be God's infallible word and true in every detail, so his mother used the sometimes lurid Bible stories to illustrate her beliefs and provide authority for her thinking. In each chapter Schaeffer dwells on a particular aspect of his mother's thinking and uses it as a stepping-off point to discuss other experiences of his own life and work. There is no firm chronological order here, and the narration often skips around temporally, which may make it hard for some readers to keep straight. Crazy for God is an easier (strictly temporal) autobiography. VERDICT This is well worth reading, highly entertaining, and very informative about the recent history of American evangelicalism. It will appeal to readers interested in the world today, memoir, or religion.—James F. DeRoche, Alexandria, VA
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In the third installment of the "God Trilogy," prolific novelist and nonfiction author Schaeffer (Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism), 2009, etc.) tells "the truth" about his mother's curious impartation of religion and sex.

The author's mother Edith played as much a spiritual role as his father, the late Evangelist Francis Schaeffer, and continues to do so at 96, though her memory loss and sight deterioration defy them both. The book shines in sections centered on Edith, a "life-embracing free spirit" whose sexual education of her son began with a show-and-tell of her diaphragm to him at age eight while on a family vacation. This candid abandon extended to matters outside of sexuality as well. The author distinctly remembers Edith praising a God that foreknew and condoned the miscarriage of her first male child in favor of subsequently giving birth to Schaeffer. He attributes life growing up with three sisters as vital to his affinity for women in later years, though they usurped too much of his parents' time and attention back then. As a woman who'd sacrificed a dancing career to become a religious juggernaut, Edith's fiery personality and sexual extroversion were contradictory to the piousness that defined her, yet she managed to formulate extraordinary interpretations. From advising women to wear sheer, black lingerie to keep their husbands' interest to confessing Francis' sexual demands on her—all were justified with biblical significance. A consummate memoirist, Schaeffer fills the narrative with interesting anecdotes about his sex life, like a nervous first-time encounter with a French woman and the ice-girl he fashioned (and attempted to mate with) while growing up in the Swiss mission his parents founded. The author's heated rejection of modern Evangelicalism and discussions of abortion, Reconstructionist movements and even Sarah Palin rob the memoir of the loving glow cast by Edith's legacy, but the sage conversation on a New York–bound bus with a distraught Asian girl is warmly resonant and a befitting conclusion to an occasionally disjointed book of ruminations, memories and frustrated opinion.

Sweet and savory familial adoration.

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Frank seems to have been born irreverent, but his memoirs have a serious purpose, and that is to expose the insanity and the corruption of what has become a powerful and frightening force in American politics.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780306819285
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 5/31/2011
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 119,508
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Frank Schaeffer is the author of the New York Times bestseller Keeping Faith and the memoir Crazy for God. His novels, including Portofino, have been translated into nine languages. He lives in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Prologue ix

Chapter 1 Family Planning 1

Chapter 2 Magic Menstrual Mummies 35

Chapter 3 Sex with the Ice Sculpture 57

Chapter 4 The-God-Of-The-Bible's Unauthorized Biography 75

Chapter 5 It's Good to Be the Queen (and Rushdoony) 93

Chapter 6 A Very Small, Tragically Immodest Speedo Bathing Suit (and Roe v. Wade) 117

Chapter 7 The Girl Who Let Me 145

Chapter 8 "Make Sure You Tell Your Readers I Changed My Mind! " 187

Chapter 9 "Strange Women" 219

Chapter 10 Godly Sexual Dysfunction, Hope, and Love 239

Epilogue 265

Index 285

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  • Posted June 21, 2011

    Doesn't Mince Words

    Sex, Mom, and God presents a portion of Mr. Schaeffer's life written as it should be (I wish others would be as honest). He explains his famous evangelical parents (Francis and Edith)and this "cookie cutter" Bible family he grew up in. His childhood, his young adult stage and his reflection on his life today are all laid bare for us to see. We get to visualize all of the thoughts and activites a young boy goes through as he struggles with issues that many of us have faced as children. Simply, he is honest and straight forward, with everything even his politics. This book was hard to put down (as all of his books). I highy recommend this book. Its enteraining, humorous, thought provoking and candid.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 21, 2011

    Highly Recommended

    This book is well written, interesting, funny and informative. I learned a lot from the former "insider" who tells all. And I loved "Mom".

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  • Posted October 1, 2011

    Tie-dye? Fine. Bell bottoms? OK. But....

    I don't know or mind if Frank Schaeffer, the author of "Sex, Mom, & God," wears tie-dyed clothes or bell bottoms, but some of the ideas he promotes in this book have on an enormous scale since the late 1960s been tried and not so much found wanting as they have been tried and found catastrophic. SCHAEFFER WRITES: (p. 115) "I said that I thought that there would be fewer abortions if women had access to the better health care and the other social services that Obama was proposing during his campaign." RATHER, SCHAEFFER (A) joins those fobbing off as "health care" poisonous drugs designed to induce a diseased state - prolonged infertility - in women and sometimes men or devices which monkey-wrench the human reproductive works; and (B) fails to recognize that these drugs and devices have been tried for decades by hundreds of millions of women and sometimes men and the results have been exactly opposite of what their proponents have prognosticated: rates of unwanted pregnancy, abortion and other forms of child abuse, divorce, and sexually related diseases have soared astonishingly (and, again, though it is tough to measure, I suspect adultery). SCHAEFFER WRITES: (p. 209) "If the Republicans had wanted to prevent abortions, they would have funded a thorough and mandatory sex education initiative from the earliest grades in all schools and combined it with the distribution of free contraceptives in all high schools, public and private (religious schools included)...." RATHER, SCHAEFFER seems unaware that, even according to the Guttmacher Institute (named after Alan Guttmacher, a president of Planned Parenthood and a vice-president of the American Eugenics Society), the majority of women who procure abortions in the USA were using a "contraceptive" drug or device when they conceived the child they aborted and that an even higher percentage were experienced "contraceptive" users but abandoned these drugs or devices, often because of their side effects. (One should note that many so called "contraceptives," besides failing to prevent conception, may also cause a very early abortion.) Data from several consecutive decades are in; widespread use of artificial contraceptives has been correlated with an increase in procured abortions. (I believe the correlation is causal and refer the reader to the transcript of Janet Smith's "Contraception: Why Not?" for a good initiation on why this is so). Yet Schaeffer and so many others overly devoted to reductionism keep insisting that the use of artificial contraceptives will prevent abortion. And it is not hard to imagine one of Schaeffer's putative sex educators intoning about "safe abortion" even though procured direct abortion (A) may be a risk factor for breast cancer; (B) is a risk factor for cerebral palsy in babies conceived later; (C) is a risk factor for infertility; and (D) is deliberately fatal to the fetus targeted by the abortion, for a few examples. I'm sure that Schaeffer's sex educators would be as punctilious regarding informed consent with respect to these consequences as President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, and "The New York Times" have been whenever they deploy the curiosity "safe abortion," aren't you?

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