I attended a Scheaffer seminar in about 1976, after reading all his books. I listened to both father and son; my impression of them then was the father was humble and honest, while the son seemed to me an insufferable, self centered prig who would one day embarass his family.
Sounds like you were right on target.
Like your handle. In the series by Lawhorn, too. Has he done anything lately?
I know other L’Abri visitors from that era and they say the same thing about Franky. He had, shall we say, “issues” even then. He does not deserve the time of day today—he is off-the-wall crazy. His apologetics for Eastern Orthodoxy are embarrassingly over-the-top vicious.
That the NYTimes gives the time of day to him when it won’t deign to pay attention to other serious Christian thinkers only proves how shallow, stoooooopppppiiiid and mendaciously bigoted toward Christians the NYTimes is.
And the content of this article is years old. This is not news—that Franky Schaeffer is dumping on the memory of his father who cannot defend himself—that is not news.
NYTimes is a piece ‘o work, for sure.