Thought I’d share this rather good news with a few friends that I thought might be able to enjoy it. Anne Rice, the popular Vampire story writer has returned to submission (giving her life) to God. In her own words she has committed “that from now on I would write only for the Lord.”
What’s up with her? “For the last six months,” she says, “people have been sending e-mails saying, ‘What are you doing next?’ And I’ve told them, ‘You may not want what I’m doing next’.” We’ll know soon. In two weeks, Anne Rice, the chronicler of vampires, witches and—under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure—of soft-core S&M encounters, will publish “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt,” a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. “I promised,” she says, “that from now on I would write only for the Lord.” It’s the most startling public turnaround since Bob Dylan’s “Slow Train Coming” announced that he’d been born again. Excerpt from this story.
My thoughts? Well, I find this encouraging. Though I don’t want anyone to get caught up in her or anyone elses celebrity status. I would be just as happy about a couple of friends that I can think of turning their lives to God. What makes this exciting for me is that I know enough about her to know the type of turn-around that she had to make to make the decision to give up her life as she had had it before, and then to say here Lord, now I will only write for you.
July 5, 2006 at 1:46 pm |
This is an even better article on the struggle of understanding the passage of faith that Anne Rice has travelled.