RE: left behind etc.

["Bethany Keeley" <blk4 at calvin_edu>]

Yeah, when I was very young and I told my dad that I wanted to
write just like Madeline L'Engle, he told me "that's great, but
you know she's a little controversial with some christians?"  or
something like that, it was a long time ago.  I think I said (or
maybe just thought) something like I don't care.  She's a good
writer and a Christian at the same time, those non-controversial
ones aren't.

always trying to stir up controversy.
Bethany

smitty noted:
>
> I love Madeleine L'Engle's writing; it's a crime that
> everyone focuses
> on all those /other/ books when they think of
> Christian fiction.
>
> I purchased the Time Quartet again just under a year
> ago, and it has
> amazed me the number of people who have never even
> heard of the books.
>
> Then again, I suppose the Time books have a bit of an
> anti-conformist
> bent that might offend some conservative Christian...
>
> =)
>
> -Smitty, AKA Mr. How
>
> Bethany Keeley wrote:
>
> >I can relate.  I grew up knowing that I wanted to be a writer,
> >but for years I worried that I shouldn't write the
> sort of books
> >that I loved, but write stuff like you find in a christian
> >bookstore, if I wanted to be a good Christian.  Then I read _A
> >Wrinkle in Time_ and it changed everything.  So
> thanks Madeline
> >L'engle.
> >
> >Bethany
> >
> >np: Derek Webb, She Must and Shall Go Free
> >
> >
> >
> >>I don't think that Tim Lahaye has the literary
> >>capacity to be ironic. Ooipsy, did I just bad mouth
> >>Left Behind and the John Grisham of Christian fiction?
> >>sorry, I'm an English major, with a major chip on my
> >>shoulder about certain (or rather most) Christian
> >>fiction authors.
> >>
> >>
>

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