{"id":3585,"date":"2010-07-31T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2010-07-31T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T21:00:49","slug":"the-anchoress-on-anne-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"The Anchoress on Anne Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anchoress, posting at First Things, has a wonderful post on the issues raised by Anne Rice in her "quitting" of Christianity.  There is plenty of blame to go around, and in this portion of the post I’m quoting, The Anchoress covers them in part, but the whole post<\/a> is well worth the read.<\/p>\n

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Anne Rice wants to do the Life-in-Christ on her own, while saying \u201cYes\u201d to the worldly world and its values. She seems not to realize that far from being an Institution of No, the church is a giant and eternal urging toward \u201cYes,\u201d<\/em>, that being a \u201cyes\u201d toward God\u2013whose ways are not our ways, and who draws all to Himself, in the fullness of time\u2013rather than a \u201cyes\u201d to ourselves.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we Christians teach this poorly<\/strong> and generally make too many excuses for our failings. Too many of us go out into the world seeking to confront and \u201cfix\u201d others, when the key to the Christian life begins with confronting and \u201cfixing\u201d the self. This can only be done through grace, which enters upon the Yes, and moves and grows on the intentional breeze of Willingness, because that is the only thing that counts, our intentions and our willingness; \u201cworthiness\u201d does not enter in.<\/p>\n

But willingness only comes with humility. It comes when we can say \u201cThy will be done,\u201d and then actually surrender, instead of preparing a treaty. <\/p>\n

The world, because it is worldly<\/em>, cannot understand Christianity or the churches; the world will never love either, and it is foolishness to think otherwise. But the church is not here to be loved by the world; it is here to serve the Bread. The Living Bread did not come for the love of the world, but for its life. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Anchoress, posting at First Things, has a wonderful post on the issues raised by Anne Rice in her "quitting" of Christianity.  There is plenty of blame to go around, and in this portion of the post I’m quoting, The Anchoress covers them in part, but the whole post is well worth the read. Anne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-doug","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}