It Has to Be Said.
Frank Schaeffer, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Melissa Duge Spiers, Becky GarrisonFrank Schaeffer takes a look at the world and says what has to be said. A Production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship.
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Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia.
I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.
Memoirist, essayist, screenwriter. Author of HOLY DISOBEDIENCE: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows with Lake Drive Books.
satirist/storyteller with focus on community, sustainability, and community.
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