Called Out of DarknessThe first memoir from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Interview with a Vampire—a "very affecting story of a well-known prodigal’s return ... [a] vivid, engaging tale of the journey of a soul into light” (Chicago Sun-Times). Anne Rice was raised in New Orleans as the devout child in a deeply religious Irish Catholic family. Here, she describes how, as she grew up, she lost her belief in God, but not her desire for a meaningful life. She used her novels—beginning with Interview with a Vampire—to wrestle with otherworldly themes while in her own life, she experienced both loss (the death of her daughter and, later, her beloved husband, Stan Rice) and joys (the birth of her son, Christopher). And she writes about how, finally, after years of questioning, she experienced the intense conversion and re-embracing of her faith that lie behind her most recent novels about the life of Christ. |
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... child . What strikes me now as most important about this experience is that it preceded reading books . Christians ... children learned about God as I did from my mother and from the experience of church which had little or nothing ...
... child . What strikes me now as most important about this experience is that it preceded reading books . Christians ... children learned about God as I did from my mother and from the experience of church which had little or nothing ...
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... child . The building itself was impressive , with a central doorway , floor - length windows on the front and on both sides , and colonnettes along the front porch that held up the porch above . Much later in life - during the 1990s ...
... child . The building itself was impressive , with a central doorway , floor - length windows on the front and on both sides , and colonnettes along the front porch that held up the porch above . Much later in life - during the 1990s ...
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... child, I saw all these elements and I understood them in a less narrative way. There was the Child leaning tenderly on His Mother, and there was she, His eternal comfort, and, yes, there were the angels holding the emblems of what Jesus ...
... child, I saw all these elements and I understood them in a less narrative way. There was the Child leaning tenderly on His Mother, and there was she, His eternal comfort, and, yes, there were the angels holding the emblems of what Jesus ...
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... Child Jesus or you could talk to Jesus on the cross , or Jesus in the tabernacle . It was all Jesus . Jesus was beyond time , and Jesus was actually beyond place . Yes , He was in the tabernacle , but He was everywhere , too . You could ...
... Child Jesus or you could talk to Jesus on the cross , or Jesus in the tabernacle . It was all Jesus . Jesus was beyond time , and Jesus was actually beyond place . Yes , He was in the tabernacle , but He was everywhere , too . You could ...
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... child in me knew . We lived and breathed as God's children in God's glorious world . Intermingled with my religious experiences at this time were preliterate aesthetic experiences which left a lasting mark . For example , I remember ...
... child in me knew . We lived and breathed as God's children in God's glorious world . Intermingled with my religious experiences at this time were preliterate aesthetic experiences which left a lasting mark . For example , I remember ...
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