Monday, March 3, 2008

Anne Rice and the Religious Right

I'm quite familiar with Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice, but hearing her mentioned on the Talk of the Nation segment The Religious Right Hits Soul-Searching Times. The guest former deputy director of the White House Office on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives David Kuo discusses his Washington Post op-ed It's Not Your Father's Religious Right.

Kuo predicts the new evangelicals will be:
  • more progressive -- but not liberal
  • not Democratic -- yet
  • more spiritually cautious and politically shrewd

Kuo uses Rice's book Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana as a good resource for those who want to understand evangelicals more. The novel is a follow-up to Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. Wikipedia tells us:

In 1996, after spending most of her adult life as a self-described atheist, Rice returned to her Roman Catholic faith, which she had not practiced since she was 15. In October 2004, as she reaffirmed her Catholic faith, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would "write only for the Lord."

Now THAT explains why the author of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and Cry to Heaven has changed her tone.

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Anne Rice said...

Thanks for your kind mention of my work, and I have indeed dramatically changed my tone. Consecrating one's work to Christ is both difficult and incredibly challenging, but I have done this, and my works for Him fulfill my promise to write only for Him. ---- I thank you for taking note of this. ---- If my new books don't serve the Lord, then they are worthless. I have posted an essay on my website about the Vampire Chronicles. But I think the porn should go unmentioned. Any mention sells. ---- All those older books were sincere, but my life is for the Lord now. thanks again, Anne Rice, Rancho Mirage, California

March 6, 2008 at 10:20 AM

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