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“Gutenberg to Schaeffer. What a trip. Another transition in humanity’s desperate attempt to communicate. You’ve blown my mind.”
“Beautiful and brilliant. Sure to embrace the wounded hearts, and those for whom art, delight and wonder remain a lover. Crafted for the present and future tenses, playing a symphony of concerns while utterly standing firm on the things that matter.
[Frank is] not only helping us find language to encounter our hearts and those of others, but teaching us how to love our children and grandchildren well.”
“When Letter to Lucy became available, I was one of the first to download it ... which suggests one of many unique things about the book. It’s best read on an iPad or other digital device, the bigger the screen and the higher the resolution, the better, because this book isn’t simply a feast of words ... it’s a visual and musical feast as well.
This is Frank’s ode to beauty, his theology of beauty if you will, because like many of us, Frank has let go of so much that he inherited from fundamentalism, but he hasn’t let go of the pearl of great price ... a deep reverence and passionate love for beauty, which for Frank, is the best and most trustworthy signature or trace of the divine that we have.”
“When I started reading Letter to Lucy I assumed it was a book. I was quickly— and very pleasantly — disabused of that assumption. It turns out that it is something far better: an open invitation to come over to Frank Schaeffer’s house for an expansive and meandering exploration of art, life, and love.”
Opening Doors to Meaning, Purpose, and Beauty
I ask myself these questions silently and inwardly: How may I atone for helping to poison America with certainty addiction? How do I defend my grandchildren against the religious right juggernaut I helped create? How do I reject what my parents stood for (fundamentalist fanaticism) and yet honor the love they gave me? How can I help my grandchildren stumble upon the goodness of life before they’re sold towering mounds of brain-damaging garbage? How do I help save the world? (And what kind of deluded messianic fool am I to believe that this is even possible?
From Letter to Lucy by Frank Schaeffer & EJG2
LETTER TO LUCY COMBINES TEXT, ART, MUSIC AND VIDEO TO CREATE A ONE-OF-A-KIND MULTI-TOUCH EXPERIENCE.
Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director of four low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as “pretty terrible.” He is also an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction and an artist with a loyal following of international collectors who own many of his paintings.
Frank has been a frequent guest on the Rachel Maddow Show on NBC, has appeared on Oprah, been interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the Today Show, BBC News and many other media outlets. He is a much sought after speaker and has lectured at a wide range of venues from Harvard’s Kennedy School to the Hammer Museum/UCLA, Princeton University, Riverside Church Cathedral, DePaul University and the Kansas City Public Library.
EJG2 is an artist living and working in the dry heat of Phoenix. He is an art lover, typewriter user and record collector who is always looking for ways to uncover and tell the truth. This is his first book.