Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--And How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics - and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway

"Kirkus Reviews," 5/15/11"The book shines in sections centered on Edith, a 'life-embracing free spirit'...A consummate memoirist, Schaeffer fills the narrative with interesting anecdotes...The sage conversation on a New York-bound bus with a distraught Asian girl is warmly resonant and a befitting conclusion to...[a] book of ruminations, memories and frustrated opinion.""Booklist," 5/15/11"[A] startlingly honest work, which is part memoir and part religious history...Intriguing fare." "Church of England Newspaper," 5/13/11"Part memoir, part exploration of evangelical views." PoliticusUSA.com, 5/16/11"A work that alternates from heartwarming to thought provoking to laugh out loud funny...Schaeffer brilliantly guides the reader through an exploration of the Bible's strange, intolerant, and sometimes frightening attitudes about sex, and how these Biblical teachings, through the evangelical grassroots of the Republican Party, have come to dominate the GOP stance...Schaeffer's writing style combines intelligence, warmth, humor, depth and insight..."Sex, Mom, and God" is hands down one of the best non-fiction books of the year." "Kirkus Reviews" (website)," "6/1/11"The memoir, the third and last in Schaeffer's God trilogy, unfolds in lucid anecdotal excursions probing the chinks that later became gaping holes in the fundamentalist walls that penned him in." Internet Review of Books, 6/8/11"A fond and sometimes hilarious look back at [Schaeffer's] mother's child-rearing methods and the effect they had on him...Schaeffer's journey demonstrates that the world could be a better place if we were all able to reassess our beliefs and values--to examine them closely and glean only those worth saving." "Library Journal, "6/15/11"Well worth reading, highly entertaining, and very informative about the recent history of American evangelicalism. It will appeal to readers interested in the world today, memoir, or religion." Huffington Post, 6/13/11"Intell