“What I want is a literature which should be unconsciously, rather than deliberately and defiantly Christian.”
-T.S. Eliot: “Religion and Literature”
My bookshelves at home are stocked with the kind of books with which churches love to fill their small libraries. During my high school years, Max Lucado was my favorite author because he took the messages I heard in church every week and crafted them in a much more clever and creative way. While I still appreciate Lucado’s writing style, and I have much to learn from it, I have grown tired of playing this Christian game where we all compete to see who can say the same thing everyone else is saying in the wittiest way. Recently, while reading Philip Yancey’s Soul Survivor, I was inspired to look for more literature outside the Christian bookstores. I am now looking forward to reading some of the works of Leo Tolstoy, Feodor Dostoevsky, and Annie Dillard when my Moody work finally slows down. These are writers who are not touted by many Christians, but perhaps they should be.
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