Called out of darkness - Read Jim Fulner

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Published 2010 by Books on Tape.

ISBN:: 978-1-4159-5671-7

An intimate memoir of Anne Rice's Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church--what she calls a decision of the heart. Moving from her New Orleans childhood in the 1940s and '50s, with all its religious devotions, through how she slowly lost her belief in God, the book recounts Anne's years in radical Berkeley, where she wrote Interview with the Vampire (a lament for her lost faith) and where she came to admire the principles of secular humanists. She writes about loss and alienation (her mother's drinking, the deaths of her young daughter and later, her husband); about the birth of her son, Christopher; and about how, after 38 years as an atheist, she once again came to believe in Christ.

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Jim Fulner reviewed Called out of darkness by Anne Rice

3 stars

This book was quite different from what I had expected. It is the personal faith journey of the author most famously known for being the author of "Interview with the Vampire" returnreturnAnne Rice's journey from Atheism to Catholicism I expected to be focused on her struggles as an Atheist, but actually it focuses mostly on her childhood growing up in a pre-Vatican II Catholic Church. returnreturnRice never seems to be what I would classify as a hard-core atheist, even if she herself did. I would only classify "Evangelical Atheists" not someone who took her vacations to visit churches and holy sites. returnreturnI was hoping for some data that would help me witness to my atheist friends, and I don't think any of that here is going to do so. The only ting I think that may be most helpful for me on this is "pray" and that it was much …

This book was quite different from what I had expected. It is the personal faith journey of the author most famously known for being the author of "Interview with the Vampire" returnreturnAnne Rice's journey from Atheism to Catholicism I expected to be focused on her struggles as an Atheist, but actually it focuses mostly on her childhood growing up in a pre-Vatican II Catholic Church. returnreturnRice never seems to be what I would classify as a hard-core atheist, even if she herself did. I would only classify "Evangelical Atheists" not someone who took her vacations to visit churches and holy sites. returnreturnI was hoping for some data that would help me witness to my atheist friends, and I don't think any of that here is going to do so. The only ting I think that may be most helpful for me on this is "pray" and that it was much easier to come back to the church at the point in her life that she did, AFTER all of lives important moments (marriage, kids, etc.) so she didn't have to deal with the Churches hard teachings on sexuality, birth-control, etc. returnreturnThere was a bunch of fairly interesting information about living in pre-vatican Catholicism. returnreturnIt was certainly better than the previous Fiction writing that I had read by Rice (Out of Egypt) and it may be very interesting for fans of her more famous works (the Vampire Diaries series)