Betrayal

Undermining the gospel in the pursuit of relevance | Andrée Seu

I received a last-minute invitation to a small gathering of people each connected to writing in some way, the purpose of the soirée being to discuss "Christian writers engaging culture." I will be deliberately vague about identifying details except to say that a well-known columnist for a Christian magazine also came.

We had been assigned to read three articles (by said well-known columnist) and to mull over four questions in preparation for our time together in the cozy living room of a hospitable couple. I was hoping to blend into the woodwork but was also brainstorming the questions, just in case, as I drove south on the Schuylkill expressway. "Is there such a thing as a 'Christian' writer?" "What does 'Christian' writing look like?" "Do you have a sense of mission in your writing?" "In what ways is writing a community affair?"