Anne Rice: Do we celebrate?
Anne Rice has apparently given up writing the deep dark fiction of demons and vampires. She has definitely made a turn for the better. But, should we be worried that she's going to be putting words in the mouth of Jesus?
I'm the eternal optimist. I'm hoping that her new fiction grabs some of her old readers and leads them down the right path. Only time will tell. For my own part, I think it's good that in an age of WICCA growth and Satanic worship, one of their own storytellers has recanted. I would wager that she's getting death threats. If you have a moment today, pray for Anne Rice. Someone else apparently did.
Read the story from the New York Daily News.
I'm the eternal optimist. I'm hoping that her new fiction grabs some of her old readers and leads them down the right path. Only time will tell. For my own part, I think it's good that in an age of WICCA growth and Satanic worship, one of their own storytellers has recanted. I would wager that she's getting death threats. If you have a moment today, pray for Anne Rice. Someone else apparently did.
Read the story from the New York Daily News.
posted by 1daymore at
9:18 AM
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I'm excited and plan to read it. She's a great writer and hopefully her writing will encourage some of her longtime followers to pick up the real story of Jesus as published in God's words.
Hi Rob. Just blogafying you as you requested. I had a question . . . in 1 Tim 5 Paul talks about the requirements for a widow to be put on the list to receive aid. I always thought the church was supposed to help people in need whether they deserved it or not. What am I missing?
Iwent to Matthew Henry's Commentary on this one so that I wouldn't just feed you speculation. The simplest answer seems to be this: There were plenty of widows who didn't need aid. First there were widows with relatives. The relatives should be the first ones to care for them. That would keep the families from sending their own widows back to the church for food or money when they didn't really need it. Second, there were young widows. They might need help for a time, but for the most part they just needed to get remarried. It's helpful to remember that there were a lot of younger widows in their day. Many of their activities could support themselves. In addition, there were widows who were taking their new freedom and using it to "sow their wild oats." The church was charged with helping anyone in need, but did they really want to support women who were making a habit of spitting on their own faith through lurid living? Perhaps not. Like anything, Paul was making generalizations that would help Timothy make decisions. Timothy would, and the church would, make determinations on a case-by-case basis and I'm certain that many of the "undeserving" were served.
Thanks for the post!
FYI, I saw the book at SAM's the other day. I flipped through, almost purchased and decided against. I'm getting ready to read through the Bible in 90 days and I don't want too many books sitting in the wings waiting. And I'm really wanting to read McCullogh's 1776.
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