{"id":8292,"date":"2016-09-01T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T23:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2016-09-01T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T23:56:58","slug":"klavan-on-the-great-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8292","title":{"rendered":"Klavan on ‘The Great Good Thing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Klavan’s<\/strong> spiritual memoir, The Great Good Thing<\/a><\/em>, will be released later this month. Here he describes his journey to faith for Christianity Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But perhaps most important for a novelist who insisted that ideas should make sense, Christ came to me in stories. Slowly, I came to understand that his life, words, sacrifice, and resurrection formed the hidden logic behind every novel, movie, or play that touched my deepest mind.<\/p>\n

I was reading a story when that logic finally kicked in. I was in my 40s, lying in bed with one of Patrick O\u2019Brian\u2019s great seafaring adventure novels. One of the characters, whom I admired, said a prayer before going to sleep, and I thought to myself, Well, if he can pray, so can I<\/em>. I laid the book aside and whispered a three-word prayer in gratitude for the contentment I\u2019d found, and for the work and people I loved: \u201cThank you, God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Klavan’s spiritual memoir, The Great Good Thing, will be released later this month. Here he describes his journey to faith for Christianity Today. But perhaps most important for a novelist who insisted that ideas should make sense, Christ came to me in stories. Slowly, I came to understand that his life, words, sacrifice, and … Continue reading Klavan on ‘The Great Good Thing’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[183,252],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-klavan","tag-autobiography"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}