EXCERPT

My mom sent me this excerpt from a WORLD Magazine interview with the novelist, Andrew Klavan. I found it post-worthy...

“WORLD: As you moved toward Christianity it seems you were developing characters who sacrifice themselves to save others. Did your creation of Christ figures help you embrace Christ -and how did your movement toward Christianity affect the nature of your heroes?

KLAVAN: The simple answer to the first question is: yeah, absolutely. I only had to read my own stories to see my view of life was increasingly a Christian one. But here’s the funny part. Becoming a Christian actually made me less likely to use Christian symbolism and structures in my work because now I see Christ’s presence underlying all of life-I don’t have to place Him there artistically. Baptism made me more of a realist, more willing to let each character go his own way and tell his own story as he would. I’m a novelist, remember, not a preacher. I trust reality to express Christ’s presence, because I think that’s what it actually does.”