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In the early 1970's Malcom Muggeridge was surprised to hear that members of the intellectual elite in the Soviet Union were experiencing a spiritual revival. Anatoli Kuznetsov, living in exile in England, told him that there was scarcely a single writer or artist or musician in the U.S.S.R. who was not exploring spiritual issues. Muggeridge said, "I asked him [Kuznetsov] how this could have happened, given the enormous anti-religious brainwashing job done on the citizenry, and the absence of all Christian literature, including the Gospels. His reply was memorable; the authorities, he said, forgot to suppress the works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the most perfect expositions of the Christian faith of modern times."
In addition to them, you might check out:
Larry Crabb,
C. S. Lewis and
Philip Yancey.
I collect various editions of Bunyan's famous classic, Pilgrim's Progress. It is the most wonderfully written (and accurate) allegory of the Christian life and, apart from the Bible, the best selling book of all time! Have you read it?
Neither Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, C. S. Lewis nor Philip Yancey were/are preachers, and to none of whom have conservative evangelicals known exactly how to respond. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were novelists. Lewis was a professor of literature; Yancey a journalist. (Crabb is a psychologist.) But they all wrestled HONESTLY with what it means to be a Christian in the world in which we live. Lewis loved to sit in the pub and talk theology; Yancey dares to acknowledge the compassion Jesus showed/shows for those who are weak and will confess their sin, in contrast to the wrath He pours out on the powerful and proud. They all openly acknowledged that there are intensely painful struggles involved in being a follower of Jesus Christ --- struggles that don't have easy, three-step solutions.
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I highly recommend the music of Dick & Melody Tunney --- especially Constant Refuge!
READERS BECOME LEADERS
QUOTES FOR READERS AND WRITERS, BY WRITERS
"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart." ---William Faulkner
"I spend three hours a day writing, and the rest of the day getting over it." --- Flannery O'Connor
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." --- Mark Twain
"The writer wants to leave a scratch on the wall of oblivion, saying, 'Kilroy was here.'" --- William Faulkner
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