Tyrone Beason of the Seattle Sun Times wrote an article about the growing trend in contemporary christian fiction. I've read many articles similiar to this, but there was one quote in here that struck me."It's taken a long time for even the Christian booksellers to accept that fiction is valid," said Bethany House author, Bette Nordberg. "Even the notion of reading for pleasure is a new idea. That's an iffy concept" among some in the Christian community."
I've read other blogs discussing this notion of the arts relevance in christian life. I want to know what you think? Is reading make believe illuminating?
Dee
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I think that the word "pleasure" in the reading for pleasure statement is what's so iffy among the community he mentioned. I believe we can read and be enlightened by fiction and I believe that to enjoy reading a story with Christian life lessons is a positive thing. If we remove the sexual connotation from the word pleasure then I think we may just remove the iffy-ness of it too.
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