To read Eli Wiesel’s Night on Thanksgiving is to enter into a world for which no gratitude is thinkable. No more proof that the fullness of the Kingdom of God is Not Yet can be found than in this personal testament of Job-like suffering and despair. No story could better reveal either the Evil of the Present Age or the dominance of Satan. Evil is winning. Good is losing The demonic is in control. Where is God? How can St. Paul’s admonition “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” apply? After reading this story how can we “know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him”?
Night and Thanksgiving
November 27th, 2008Jesus the Vampire Slayer
November 25th, 2008
The inside flap promised “the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic… mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force–a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.” With Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice created a worldwide fascination with the myth of the vampire.
Now with Called Out of Darkness, Anne Rice confesses her spiritual deliverance from the world of the Enemy into the Kingdom of God. It is hypnotic, shocking only to non-Christians, a chronicle of mesmerizing beauty of the astonishing force of a breakthrough of the Kingdom of God. It is the author’s personal story of danger and return, of love and redemption, of suspense and reconciliation, and of the extraordinary power of God.
