The memoir explores the author's journey away from the fundamentalist beliefs he helped popularize, and his efforts to "take back" his life. Reception and Tone
The book details Schaeffer's childhood within a famous fundamentalist family, providing intimate, often humorous, and "cringe-inducing" anecdotes.
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Frank Schaeffer, a former evangelical leader turned author and filmmaker.
The book is described as "laugh-out-loud funny" but also a "righteous, furious" sermon against what the author calls "heavenly demons". SexMom zip
: A memoir of his life in the evangelical movement. Portofino and Zermatt : Semi-autobiographical novels.
It connects the rise of the Religious Right to a distorted interpretation of biblical sexual norms. The memoir explores the author's journey away from
The book centers on Schaeffer's mother, Edith Schaeffer, whom he describes as a complex mix of a "life-embracing free spirit" and a fundamentalist who broke her own rules.