Articles for tag: Anne Rice

September 15, 2010

By Mark A. Taylor My wife and I discovered something wonderful when we returned to our church after three vacation Sundays away: people there missed us. Amid all the friendly pats and hearty greetings”””Welcome back!” “We loved your pictures on Facebook!” “Was your trip wonderful?”””I thought about this column I promised to write when we returned. This continues a discussion begun in last week”s issue. There I reported on and reacted to author Anne Rice”s public announcement of her decision to walk away from Christianity. She said her faith in Christ is “central” to her life, but “following Christ does

September 8, 2010

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square

Anne Rice”s Decision Makes Me Sad

By Mark A. Taylor Perhaps you”re familiar with Anne Rice, the world-known novelist who left the Catholic faith of her childhood to become an atheist and then returned to a vibrant belief in God. Perhaps you know about her Facebook post July 28. “Today I quit being a Christian,” she wrote. “I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “˜Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It”s simply impossible for me to “˜belong” to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group.” The next day she added, “My faith in Christ is central to my life. .