Is there room for tolerance in the space between fundamentalist Christianity and New Atheism? Frank Schaeffer hopes so. He offers a middle ground between these polarizing forces in his new book “Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism)” (Da Capo, 2009). We’ll talk with him this hour.

How did religion become entwined in American politics? Frank Schaeffer knows first hand. His new book is “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back” (Carroll and Graf, 2007). We’ll talk with Schaeffer this hour.