14 Facts About Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer was born on August 3,1952 and is an American author, film director, screenwriter, and public speaker.

Frank Schaeffer is the son of theologian and author Francis Schaeffer.

Frank Schaeffer became a Hollywood film director and author, writing several novels depicting life in a strict evangelical household including Portofino, Zermatt, and Saving Grandma.

Frank Schaeffer was born in Switzerland in 1952, the son of American missionaries Francis and Edith Frank Schaeffer.

Frank Schaeffer worked with his father and other members of the Religious Right in the 1970s making films, writing books, and speaking at churches and other venues.

Frank Schaeffer converted from Presbyterian Calvinism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 1990 and gave lectures on his reasons for rejecting conservative evangelical Protestantism.

In 2006, Frank Schaeffer published Baby Jack, a novel about a US Marine killed in Iraq.

Frank Schaeffer is wrote non-fiction books related to the Marine Corps, including Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps, co-written with his son John Schaeffer, and AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service and How It Hurts Our Country, co-authored with former Bill Clinton presidential aide Kathy Roth-Douquet.

In 2007, Frank Schaeffer published his autobiography, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All of It Back, in which he goes into detail about growing up in the Frank Schaeffer family and around L'Abri.

Frank Schaeffer has gone from being a conservative Republican to becoming a liberal Democrat.

Frank Schaeffer has stated that he helped produce Reagan's book Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation.

On October 10,2008, a public letter to Senator John McCain and Sarah Palin from Frank Schaeffer was published in the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

The letter contained an impassioned plea for McCain to arrest what Frank Schaeffer perceived as a hateful and prejudiced tone of the Republican Party's election campaign.

Frank Schaeffer was convinced that there was a pronounced danger that fringe groups in America could be goaded into pursuing violence.