Q & A: Anne Rice on Following Christ Without Christianity | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

A while back I posted a review of Anne Rice's autobiography of her conversion and reconnecting with the Catholic church she grew up in. She has recently publicly renounced Christianity as her religion, although not her relationship to God as a believer in Christ. Her actions remind me that there is much about the institution of the Christian church (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox) that rubs me the wrong way (our history, stance on different issues, even some of the people) but it's still the one place that sinners "a lot like you and me" as Bill Mallonee says join together not in our own strength and purpose but united in our confession of the Triune God who has redeemed us and is at work in the world to bring about his kingdom...that is what keeps me hanging on to the church with all of it's faults and failures. Rice makes some valid points, but she misses what I believe is one of the essentials of faith, unity through the power of the Holy Spirit. Q & A: Anne Rice on Following Christ Without Christianity | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction