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Lately, I\u2019ve been getting a little tired of hearing people claim that there aren\u2019t Christians making good art.<\/p>\n

Sure, Christians haven\u2019t always been very good about making good art \u2013 and have made a lot of\u00a0bad\u00a0<\/em>art \u2013 but there\u2019s good out there, too. And I think sometimes that people who say it doesn\u2019t exist just aren\u2019t looking.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I was glad to see that Image has compiled a list of 25 of the greatest living writers of faith. Check it out.<\/a>\u00a0The results might surprise you.<\/p>\n

(By the way, the\u00a0New Yorker<\/em> published some excerpts<\/a> from Flannery O\u2019Connor\u2019s prayer diaries this week. It\u2019s paywalled, unfortunately, so only subscribers can get to it. But who says the literary establishment is anti-God?)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"