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In Guns We Trust | Evangelicals, Guns, and the Faith They Left Behind

Frank Schaeffer speaks with William J. Kole about guns, fear, and how white evangelical Christianity drifted away from the teachings of Jesus.


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I'm a former foreign correspondent who has reported from North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

My first book, THE BIG 100: The New World of Super-Aging (2023, Diversion Books), was inspired by two extraordinary women. I first told the world the astonishing story of Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122, when I was based in France for The Associated Press. And my own grandmother, Marie Mercurio Sansone, was born in 1899 and died in 2003, just shy of her 104th birthday, after a life that touched parts of three centuries.

I was a 2022 fellow in aging journalism at Columbia University in New York and at the National Press Foundation in Washington, D.C.

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