Crazy for Crazy for God

Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God: How I Grew up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or almost) of It Back (Da Capo, 9780306817502), has been making a lot of media appearances recently, and generating solid interest in his book. Last week he appeared on Campbell Brown’s show on CNN; over the weekend he was on the DL Hughley Show (also CNN); and this very afternoon (1pm local time) he’ll be on MSNBC.

I should of course not fail to mention that the book is extremely well written. Here’s what Andre Dubus III had to say: “As a lifelong liberal democrat, it’s a pleasure for me to see Frank Schaeffer turn his back on the extreme religious right here, but it is a far deeper pleasure to go where this painstakingly honest and courageous memoir really takes us, into a finely nuanced exploration of how easy it is to lose one’s way and how difficult it is to find one’s true direction home. We are fortunate that Frank Schaeffer’s path has taken him from the rigid fundamentalist thinking of his youth to where he is now, working not in stark black and white, but in the blessed gray from which true art arises. Crazy for God is a brave and important book.”