NEWS: CMTA Convention

Dan will be speaking at the CMTA Convention on April 29th & 30th in the technology track on topics relating to the subject of Internet Ministry. Dan blends an interesting combination of humor, tech-savvy, and (Schaeffer Influenced) tech-philosophy to his talks. Read more about Dan here on the FSS site.

His two workshops are as follows:

I Clicked on the Internet
A humorous guide to understanding the internet and ministry. This workshop will help the novice understand the basics of interacting with the internet and sharing the Gospel online in meaningful ways.

The Top 5 Things You Need to Go Global
This workshop will provide website resources for web evangelism. Free web tools will be shared to be instantly ready for web evangelism.

Watch for related material as it becomes available and a special free give away for site visitors!

Visit cmtaconvention.org for information on attending!

NEWS: GLOSSARY WORK BEGINS

FSS has begun work on it's glossary feature. The first stage of this sub-project is to catalog every person that Schaeffer mentions in his works and list them by chapter.

The larger goal is to make it possible to search globally to see every time a person is mentioned. So if you want to find out what Schaeffer's take on Kierkegaard is for example, you will know where to read.

Check out the glossary tab on the True Spirituality page to see the new feature.

L'Abri Conference in Rochester, MN - Facebook Gallery

We're back from the Conference in Rochester, MN. We learned a lot and talked with a lot of people about Francis Schaeffer Studies. As you will see from the pictures we had some fun, met some amazing people, and had some good food and fellowship with some of our friends along the way. Check out the gallery in Facebook!
Photo Gallery from the L'Abri Conference in Rochester, MN February 11-12.

NEWS: NEW L'ABRI IDEAS LIBRARY FEATURE

Some of you may be familiar with the L'Abri Ideas Library, if not, you should definitely check it out. The library is a collection of the of the audio resources from L'Abri over the past 50 years. There are more resources being added regularly. These recordings have been an important part of the L'Abri work over the years, and are just as significant now.

In support of that project, we have provided new reference links to the lectures that have influenced many of Schaeffer's books (some of which were possibly further refined by Schaeffer, we are not fully versed on the history of all of these recordings). One of the best examples of how we are integrating the library is our True Spirituality page. On this page you will find the seventeen different lectures on True Spirituality from the Dr. Schaeffer Collection at the L'Abri Ideas Library just under the book description. We may move things around a little later as these technically belong in the "External Resources" section of each book study page, but we thought it would be good to put them in a place where everyone can easily get to them.
Just look for the following logo:

We are excited about promoting the L'Abri Ideas Library and hope that these additions will greatly benefit your studies!

NEWS: EXTERNAL RESOURCES UPGRADES ON FRANCIS SCHAEFFER STUDIES.ORG

If you have been following the ongoing progress on the Book Studies pages you know we have added a new multi-tab view that allows you to switch between book information, study information, glossary information and external resources.  On the resources section of each book page you will now see a new feature that allows you to "like" an external resource. When you "like" a resource, the next time the page or section is loaded the resources will be sorted by the resource with the highest likes. This is a helpful way to contribute and no login is required!

This is one of many interactive features we hope to provide in the near future. Keep checking back as we continue to make the works of Schaeffer more accessible and make you more a part of the study. To try it out visit the Christian Manifesto Page for starters: http://francisschaefferstudies.org/schaeffer_books.php?book_title=A-Christian-Manifesto

NEWS: FRANCIS SCHAEFFER STUDIES.ORG MORE UPDATES!

News: Updates to Why Schaeffer Page: Schaeffer Symposium
http://francisschaefferstudies.org/why_schaeffer.php

News: More info. on our staff (blogs and more)
http://francisschaefferstudies.org/staff.php

News: New External Study Resources to A Christian Manifesto, Art And The Bible, Back To Freedom And Dignity http://bit.ly/hloMP6


News: Over 4,000 page views by nearly 500 visitors in our first two weeks! Thanks for visiting!

Article: What Difference Can One Man Make?

This is perhaps the question that we all must ask ourselves. Francis Schaeffer continued to think big regarding the work of L'Abri and yet always lived simply and desired the lesser place. He did not thrust himself into the lime light, but rather spoke the truth and let others promote his thinking. His first tapes where recorded by others, his first books were transcribed from his lectures and sent to him, much to his surprise.

When L'Abri started, Schaeffer kept telling his family and those involved with the work, "We have this challenge, if the Lord calls us to it, of being a very small work always. But if He were to make it significant, and a bigger work, to be prepared to accept that, in the same spirit, of just doing God's will, as he leads it."

He had something to say, and was happy to have the opportunity to say it. Yet, he constantly strove to honor God in the totality of life, in an natural and "organic" way and taught others to do the same. Confessing to be flawed like us all, and professing to be sustained by a God who is there and not silent.  This is why we teach Schaeffer. He taught an honest and authentic Christian life for 20th century and beyond.

Check out our Why Schaeffer? page for more resources.

THANKS TO SCHAEFFER STUDY CENTER

A shout out to Rob Shearer at http://www.schaefferstudycenter.org who has agreed to link to us! Schaeffer Stduy Center is basically a Schaeffer High School, with an emphasis on humanities and the arts. Too Bad I'm too old, I'd enroll like yesterday!

NEWS: NEW PAGE ENHANCEMENTS

PAGE CHANGES

We finally got the changes applied to the study page: http://francisschaefferstudies.org/studies.php

We found more Schaeffer books, that are not in his works! These are generally works that he published with others. We are finding this information very helpful to clear up some of the questions we had.

In one case in particular we had to do some digging. There is a book called Corruption Vs. True Spirituality which Schaeffer wrote with Vishal Mangalwadi. Some questioned whether it was a foreign publication of True Spirituality. After consulting with Richard Krejcir (Schaeffer's nephew) we find out that Schaeffer was good friends with Vishal and Richard told us that Schaeffer said Vishal was the smartest man he had ever met! They worked together to add another seventy pages or so to True Spirituality under this title. Looks like we got some reading to do! Get more links on the Corruption Vs. True Spirituality book page.

BOOK/STUDY PAGES

Since we are doing primarily book studies we decided we wanted to have a very extensive book reference as well as be able to easily accommodate the study, glossary, and external resources. Here is an example of what it looks like:

Let us know what you think!

NEWS: Big changes to the book study page!

You'll notice changes to book study page on our site-We are implementing the largest (we think) Francis Schaeffer database on the Internet! We'll have more specifics on this as we complete the first database phase!