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Mystery Author Describes Conversion
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Topics: Accepting Christ; Atheism; Awakenings; Born again; Conversion; Faith; Lostness; New life; New man; Old man; Rebirth; Receiving Christ; Redemption; Salvation; Science; Skepticism; Stumbling blocks; Surrender; Unbelief
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References: Proverbs 3:5, Ecclesiastes 1:12-18, John 3:3, Acts 3:19, 1 Corinthians 1:17-31, 2 Corinthians 5:17
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Andrew Klavan is a popular writer of mysteries—some of which have been made into movies (1999's True Crime and 2001's Don't Say a Word). He was recently interviewed in World magazine about how his writing interacts with his Christian faith. In the process, he described his conversion to being a follower of Christ:

"My life has been more like one of those Outward Bound programs where they drop you far from home and you have to make your way back with a piece of string and a matchbook. I was born and raised a Jew and came up in that wonderful secular intellectual tradition that teaches you to analyze everything. God kept coming into my life, and I kept disproving him—I was very good at it!
Fortunately, I could also disprove the foundations of my disproof. Eventually I saw that the pillars of the secular consensus—scientism, materialism, rationalism—were all made of sand. Whereas the deeper I went into the experience of God, the more I found…life in abundance."
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Photograph of Andrew Klavan, author of books like Don't Say a Word, True Crime, and Damnation Stree. Photo credit: Sarah Pariso.

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