In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer

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Bonus Episode • Felicia Davis Aug 06, 2021

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Felicia Davis is a self-described “girl from the South Side.” She is deeply committed to community through inclusive service to others. As president and CEO of Chicago Foundation for Women, she leads their strategic efforts in investing in women and girls as catalysts, building stronger communities for all.
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Felicia is passionate about transforming lives and serves as an educator and mentor through a variety of networks, participating on numerous boards and committees, including as a member of Governor

JB Pritzker’s Inauguration Committee, the Board of Regents for Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, an appointee to the Illinois Senate Sexual Discrimination, Harassment Awareness and Prevention Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and iHeartMedia Chicago’s Local Advisory Board.

She has been in public service for the majority of her career. As a member of the Chicago Police Department, she served with distinction for a decade, as a police officer and then as a violent crimes detective. As Interim President of Olive-Harvey College, appointed by City Colleges of Chicago’s Chancellor Juan Salgado, Felicia led the College’s efforts in developing, maintaining, and evaluating academic programs and enhancing the student learning experience for optimum achievement. She served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Office of Public Engagement in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration, where she led efforts to connect communities to resources. As Mayor Emanuel’s First Deputy Chief of Staff, she implemented community-focused strategies to increase public safety across Chicago.

Felicia exemplifies leadership in all she sets out to do. She is a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and a founding member of the Chicago Foundation for Women’s South Side Giving Circle, where she has blazed a trail for supporting Black women and girls through philanthropy and collective giving.

I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists, and change-makers of our time on this podcast, and I want to personally thank you for subscribing, listening, and sharing 100-plus episodes over 100,000 times.

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Johanna C. Zeilstra Aug 03, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Gender Fair CEO Johanna C. Zeilstra, exploring equity, equality, fairness, and the future of feminism.
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Johanna currently runs Gender Fair, a platform that uses data analytics to determine an organization’s progress towards gender equality and diversity.
Johanna is an established business strategist and an accomplished leader for both start-ups and global corporations. Over the past two decades, she has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan Chase, and with over a dozen client corporations, including Delta Airlines, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Philips, Lucent, Disney, Bank of America, and Occidental Petroleum. Her career has led her to work in Canada, China, Indonesia, France, and The Netherlands. She acts as a coach to senior executives on boards and top teams and has a passion for supporting and advancing professional women. She is an active board member of the Woman Business Collaborative (WBC), the largest women’s business movement for gender equality and diversity.

Johanna currently runs Gender Fair, a platform that uses data analytics to determine an organization’s progress towards gender equality and diversity. Prior to this, Johanna co-founded GiveBack, an innovative platform that makes it easy for companies to build authentic and impactful cause marketing, workplace giving and other social responsibility initiatives. GiveBack was launched on the Oprah Winfrey Show during her final season in 2011, and was subsequently acquired by one of the nations largest benefits administrators.

Johanna is originally from the Netherlands and educated in Canada where she earned an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a Masters degree in Business Administration. She resides in Westchester, NY, where she runs the Women Entrepreneurs Network and serves on several boards, including CEO Forum, Harbor Island Conservancy, and Princeton Faith & Work Initiative.
Gender Fair’s app lets you search and scan products while you shop in-store, and provides detailed information about a company’s rating. Best of all, the app gives you a voice – allowing you to communicate with companies and show them that the values they demonstrate impact your buying decisions, encouraging them to accelerate equality.

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Richard Forer Jul 27, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Richard Forer, Author of Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on the Tragedy of Israel-Palestine
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Richard Forer was brought up in Trenton, NJ in the 1950s and 60s. His identical twin brother is a prominent member of an Orthodox sect of Judaism. Another brother is a past president of one of the largest Reform Synagogues on the East Coast. Other members of his family live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Certain the Arab world would not rest until Israel was wiped from the face of the earth, Forer, a former member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), supported Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon. However, the anger and anxiety he felt compelled him to begin a process of self-discovery in which he realized that he had been demonizing Palestinians and Arabs, the so-called enemy, for an entire lifetime. He recognized that he had taken for granted unexamined beliefs that are common within Jewish and American society, and that in doing so, he had been contributing to a ceaseless struggle that has brought death and destruction to Palestinians and Israelis alike and has been the focal point for Arab anger toward the West. Through extensive research, based primarily on the most foundational resources available (the Israeli State, Central Zionist, IDF, and David Ben-Gurion archives, etc.), he discovered that much of what he had believed was inaccurate. Forer’s first book, published in 2010, is Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion – A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

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Diana Butler Bass Jul 20, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Author Diana Butler Bass, exploring her new book, Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence.
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DIANA BUTLER BASS is the author of eleven books on American religion, including Grateful, Grounded, Christianity After Religion, Christianity for the Rest of Us, and A People's History of Christianity. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Duke University, has taught at the college and graduate level, and is currently an independent scholar. She was a columnist for the New York Times Syndicate, and blogs for the Huffington Post and the Washington Post on issues of religion, spirituality, and culture. Butler Bass is a popular speaker at conferences, colleges and universities, and churches across North America. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, daughter, and dog. Her website is www.dianabutlerbass.com, she can be followed on Facebook and Twitter at @dianabutlerbass, and at the award-winning newsletter, The Cottage, on Substack.

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Gary Knight & Fiona Turner Jul 13, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Gary Knight & Fiona Turner, exploring their latest work, Imagine: Reflections on Peace; a book, exhibition and short films conceived to encourage discourse and conversation around peace building and ending conflict.
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https://theviifoundation.org
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Gary Knight is a British photographer, architect and co-founder of the VII Photo Agency, the VII Foundation and founder of the VII Academy
Fiona Turner is an Emmy award–winning producer and director with a background in broadcast news and documentary. For ABC News and NBC News, she covered many of the global conflicts of the 1990s, including the breakup of the Balkans. She recently directed and produced a documentary feature film, Eat Up, that takes school lunches back into the kitchen.

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Bonus Episode • Rep. Ted Lieu Jul 07, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Ted W. Lieu, an American politician and Air Force Reserve Command colonel who has represented California's 33rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015.
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Ted W. Lieu is an American politician and Air Force Reserve Command colonel who has represented California's 33rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015.

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Andre Dubus III Jul 06, 2021

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Transcending Bad Role Models to Become the Quintessential Family Man (and A Famous Writer)
Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Andre Dubus III, author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days (soon to be a major motion picture) and his memoir, Townie, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times "Editors Choice".
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Andre Dubus III is the author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days (soon to be a major motion picture) and his memoir, Townie, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times "Editors Choice". His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies, and his novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly. His novella collection, Dirty Love, was published in the fall of 2013 and was listed as a “Notable Book” by The Washington Post and The New York Times, and was named a New York Times Editors’Choice”, and a Kirkus “Starred Best Book of 2013”. His new novel, Gone So Long, published in October 2018, has received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection for The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018” and “The Best Books of 2018”, “Top 100”, Amazon.

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Dr. Marlene Winell, Ph.D. Jun 29, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Dr. Marlene Winell, Ph.D., exploring her book, Leaving the Fold; a self-help book that examines the effects of authoritarian religion on individuals who leave the faith.
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https://journeyfree.org/
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Dr. Marlene Winell is a psychologist and specialist in religious recovery consulting. Her background includes over 30 years of experience in human services, in both community and academic settings. She holds a doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies from Pennsylvania State University.

Born and raised overseas by missionary parents, Marlene was immersed in fundamentalist Christianity from childhood. She moved away from that religion during college and found the transition process so difficult and intriguing that she began to research it professionally. In 1994 she published Leaving the Fold: a Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving their Religion, which has become a leading self-help book in the field of religious recovery.

In 2011, Dr. Winell named Religious Trauma Syndrome in a series of three published articles in the British journal, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Today. Since then the term has spread, providing a needed name for this condition.

Based in Western Massachusetts, Dr. Winell is the founder and director of Journey Free, an agency providing resources for religious recovery. Programs include individual consultation, an online support group, retreats, recovery courses, and a helping professionals group.

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Brian D. McLaren Jun 22, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with author Brian D. McLaren, exploring his new book, Faith After Doubt; a book for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart.
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www.brianmclaren.net
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From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith.
"Will help you live fuller and breathe easier..” ―Glennon Doyle
"Deeply reassuring to anyone who questions their faith or the existence of God... McLaren's book teaches us not to fear doubt and how to embody faith after doubt, with suggestions for reflection and action." ―Spirituality&Health
Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every year. Faith After Doubt is for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart.
Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor and now an author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality. He proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith, but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith. The four stages―Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony―offer a path forward that can help sincere and thoughtful people leave behind unnecessary baggage and intensify their commitment to what matters most.

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Sadie Valeri Jun 15, 2021

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Frank Schaeffer in conversation with internationally recognized classical oil painter Sadie Valeri, exploring the failure of the American art establishment to teach basic artistic craftsmanship and her own self-taught journey to become America’s premier teacher of realistic painting and drawing in the classical tradition dating back to the Romans.
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www.sadievaleriatelier.com

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