{"id":2569,"date":"2010-08-02T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2010-08-02T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:45:50","slug":"anne-rice-announces-she%e2%80%99s-leaving-christianity-i-knew-that-would-happen-did-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/anne-rice-announces-she%e2%80%99s-leaving-christianity-i-knew-that-would-happen-did-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Rice Announces She\u2019s Leaving Christianity. I Knew That Would Happen. Did You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As most everyone knows, Anne Rice<\/a> is\u00a0 mega-successful author, mainly of vampire novels and the like.\u00a0 She made news several years ago by announcing that she had become Christian and that she would only write books that would then reflect that and honor Christ.<\/p>\n

I wondered when I heard that how long it would take her to become disillusioned with the institutional church.\u00a0 And quite frankly, the announcement she made last week that she was leaving Christianity didn\u2019t come as a surprise to me; mainly because I see it happen every single day.<\/p>\n

But before you get too worked up, go back and Google the story and find out what she really said, that she \u201crefused to be anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-science,\u201d <\/em>anti-on-and-on – you get the message.<\/p>\n

But what she did say, that often gets missed in an announcement like this, is that she would continue to do what she\u2019d been doing, and that is, be a faithful follower of Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I wrote my book, \u201cThe Renegade\u2019s Guide to God,<\/a>\u201d the subtitle was, \u201cfinding life outside conventional Christianity.”\u00a0 It really is sad to see that Christians have gotten the reputation of being mad, angry, negative, and condemning.<\/p>\n

Since when did Christianity become anti anything? <\/strong> My interpretation of the message of Christ is that God is for us.\u00a0 Yes we are broken and our brokenness causes the pain we see in the world.\u00a0 But didn\u2019t Christ come to reconcile, to redeem, and to restore?<\/p>\n

Those of you out there who interpret Christianity as a long list of rules and regulations, added to the fact that you are the morality police, need to take a clue from this high-profile follower of Christ.<\/p>\n

The gap between following Christ and being committed to a church is growing.<\/strong> It shouldn\u2019t because Christ loved the church.\u00a0 The church ought to be a place we run to when we\u2019re hurting, we run to when our lives are in disarray, but there is alienation and condemnation.\u00a0 The church ought to be a place with joy, energy, peace and reconciliation<\/strong> rather than division, anger, and power-play.<\/p>\n

Anne Rice, I applaud you as a sister in Christ, but I hope the day will come when you find a church home that will look more like the Christ you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As most everyone knows, Anne Rice is\u00a0 mega-successful author, mainly of vampire novels and the like.\u00a0 She made news several years ago by announcing that she had become Christian and that she would only write books that would then reflect that and honor Christ. I wondered when I heard that how long it would take … Continue reading “Anne Rice Announces She\u2019s Leaving Christianity. I Knew That Would Happen. Did You?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}