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, (Paperback)

from myrlton

As one who admired Francis and Edith Schaeffer and their life's work in L'Abri, I was interested to read their son's unusual re-telling of his life. As the youngest child, he writes like aspoiled brat who wants to 'take back' his role in bringing Francis's influence to its peak during the 1970's ...

from myrlton

As one who admired Francis and Edith Schaeffer and their life's work in L'Abri, I was interested to read their son's unusual re-telling of his life. As the youngest child, he writes like aspoiled brat who wants to 'take back' his role in bringing Francis's influence to its peak during the 1970's ...

from PedrBran

I read Francis Schaeffer's books back in the late seventies when I was in college. I never thought much of him. To me, he was a wannabee Christian evangelical intellectual ( an oxymoron if there ever was one) who wrote bad philosophy books. My thought was 'really, this is all you got? No wonder t...

from phyllis01

The title says it all. Schaeffer is a good writer and paints a picture of his family that was one way in public, and another in private.

from Jthierer

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.