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Our Culture and Christ: A Klavan on The Culture Christmas Blog

December 23, 2012 Culture

All art — all storytelling, picture-making, music — is an attempt to record and communicate the experience of being human. There are no words for this experience. Only metaphor and imagery and music will do. All peoples leave these traces of themselves. It’s their way of saying not just “We were here,” but “We were [...]

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Andrew for Christmas

December 16, 2012 News

Andrew talks at length about his faith and his fiction on the radio news magazine The World And Everything In It, a broadcast from the people at “World: Today’s News, Christian Views.” The program, hosted by Nick Eicher and Joseph Slife, will air December 22nd and then be posted on the broadcast website here.

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Booklist: “Klavan Writes Good Books, Damn Him!”

November 4, 2012 Books

Another pre-publication review for If We Survive. This one from the trade publication Booklist. If I read this one correctly, it translates to: “Beware! Klavan is a Christian conservative…  but actually his book is very good!” The reviewer goes out of his way to work the word Christian into his (somewhat mistaken) description of the book. [...]

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Living Light Interview

October 10, 2011 Books

I’m not sure I qualify as a living light, but the upbeat Christian site Living Light News has a nice interview with me this week.  Nice photo too by Anacleto Rapping: He’s been hailed by Stephen King as “the most original American novelist of crime and suspense …” Two of his books became major motion [...]

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The Pope Rocks

March 31, 2011 Books

When I read Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth:  From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, I was blown away by the courage and brilliance of its approach.  I remember someone interviewed me for one of those Best Book of the Year columns and I mentioned the Pope’s book and called it “luminous.”  [...]

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A Report on Story

September 28, 2010 Culture

Back from the Story conference in Chicago where I spoke last week.   The sold-out event featured artists and businessmen addressing young Christian leaders on how best to spread their message.  I spoke about some of the darker and more twisted stories and themes that led me to faith, including Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and, completely [...]

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NT Wright and the Gospel of Mark

August 18, 2010 Culture

Bishop N.T. Wright is an excellent Anglican theologian who has written some fine if massive tomes exploring how Jesus understood himself in his time and place.  He also seems to have a hankering to be a modern C.S. Lewis, writing more popular-style books exploring Christianity in day to day life.  These, to my mind, are [...]

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Andrew to Speak at “Story” Conference

August 17, 2010 News

Andrew will speak this September at Story, billed as “a conference for the creative class in ministry.”   Conference organizers say, “The purpose is to fuel the church’s artists, writers and producers in communicating the greatest story ever told.”  The sold-out gathering will be held September 23-24th, at the Park Community Church in Chicago.

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Anne Rice Quits Christianity

August 4, 2010 Culture

Spanking porn author Anne Rice has announced on Facebook that she’s quitting Christianity.  According to John Nolte over at Big Hollywood, she made the announcement on Facebook thusly: I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial [...]

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Christian Libertarianism

April 29, 2010 politics

Over at our much beloved Big Hollywood last week, filmmaker Leigh Scott had some thoughtful and entertaining comments on Kick-Ass, a movie he liked and which I haven’t seen.  He says it’s a libertarian film and, as a side note, goes on to discuss what he feels are the differences between libertarian conservatives and Christian [...]

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