Comments on: When churches go wrong http://www.veitchsmith.com/2008/06/02/when-churches-go-wrong/ articles on Christianity, lifestyle and more... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:31:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Fiona Veitch Smith http://www.veitchsmith.com/2008/06/02/when-churches-go-wrong/#comment-387 Fiona Veitch Smith Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:38:22 +0000 http://www.veitchsmith.com/?p=51#comment-387 Hi Rosalie. You certainly do raise some very pertinent issues in your book and your characterisation of the two girls in all their tragedy and triumph is both touching and empowering. I think we can only grow from discussing the issues we may disagree on and I'm very grateful that you have entered so fully into this. Hi Rosalie. You certainly do raise some very pertinent issues in your book and your characterisation of the two girls in all their tragedy and triumph is both touching and empowering. I think we can only grow from discussing the issues we may disagree on and I’m very grateful that you have entered so fully into this.

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Thank you for discussing “Charity’s Child”. I’d just like to re-emphasise that I did not set out to cause offence to anyone, and I fully concede that not all evangelical and charismatic Christians are like the ones in this book.

I am not anti-Christian and my attitude these days towards the Gifts of the Spirit is an open-minded one. I did not mean to suggest that those who experience them are either deluded or faking it, either in the novel or in real life.

As well as the more horrific side of human nature, “Charity’s Child” was meant to show the redemptive power of forgiveness and love, both human and divine, and I hope it succeeds in this.

I should also point out that, while the setting was based on church groups I have known, the events of the novel are wholly fictional.

I would be very happy if some Christians read my book and let me know what they thought.

Rosalie

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