Here i am sat at my laptop, searching for Podcasts by Tom Wright, as i was advised by my New Testement lecturer to do. Then i come across a site that is offering a download of N.T Wright and Anne Rice discussing 'Writing our way to God'.
This confused me greatly. Surely not the great Anne Rice, who created the infamous Vampire chronicals? Who's books i was addicted to in my last years of high school. Who created a style of vampire that appreciated beauty and innocence yet indulged in destruction. I devoured these books as i could get hold of them until i reached 'Memnock the Devil'; which turns around the Tempation of Jesus ->
Matthew 4: 1-3 Next Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit for the Test. The Devil was ready to give it. Jesus prepared for the Test by fasting forty days and forty nights. That left him, of course, in a state of extreme hunger, which the Devil took advantage of in the first test: "Since you are God's Son, speak the word that will turn these stones into loaves of bread."4Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: "It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God's mouth."5-6For the second test the Devil took him to the Holy City. He sat him on top of the Temple and said, "Since you are God's Son, jump." The Devil goaded him by quoting Psalm 91: "He has placed you in the care of angels. They will catch you so that you won't so much as stub your toe on a stone." 7Jesus countered with another citation from Deuteronomy: "Don't you dare test the Lord your God."8-9For the third test, the Devil took him to the peak of a huge mountain. He gestured expansively, pointing out all the earth's kingdoms, how glorious they all were. Then he said, "They're yours—lock, stock, and barrel. Just go down on your knees and worship me, and they're yours." 10Jesus' refusal was curt: "Beat it, Satan!" He backed his rebuke with a third quotation from Deuteronomy: "Worship the Lord your God, and only him. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness." 11The Test was over. The Devil left. And in his place, angels! Angels came and took care of Jesus' needs.
However she portrayed Satan as trying to reach out and save God from self destruction. (True, i did not reach the end of the book as i was quite appalled by it and still being young and suggestable, didnt think it was a good idea.)
Searching on, down the page i found a list of her books ;
Anne Rice,
author of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and The Vampire Chronicles
Christ the Lord: out of Egypt??? Seems a little different to her normal style, unless shes doing what she did with Memnock the Devil . . . Doing a google search (God bless Google!) I discovered that she was a Catholic until the age of 18 when she left the church, recent serious ilnesses and perhaps the concequences of those have brought her back to God. I cannot find an account of her conversion anywhere so i am guessing! Then i found this;
"In two weeks, Anne Rice, the chronicler of vampires, witches and—under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure—of soft-core S&M encounters, will publish "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. "I promised," she says, "that from now on I would write only for the Lord."
I am astonished. Truly i am, God has power over all things! She has and will always have a cult following due to her vampire books, especially through the films of 'Interview with a vampire' and 'Queen of the damned' .Through this divine intervention i pray reverently that her worshippers will follow suit.
Our God is truly an awesome God!
God Bless, Sarah x
http://www.gracecathedral.org/forum/for_20060514.shtml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785289/site/newsweek/
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