Russell Moore, dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote recently on the 20th anniversary of Walker Percy’s death.  In his post, Dr. Moore makes some interesting observations on Percy’s unique style.  I’ll provide one quote here, but it is worth reading all of Dr. Moore’s comments.

Percy’s apocalyptic writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, sounds so much different than the faux-apocalypticism of so much contemporary Christian “culture war” rhetoric. It’s direct, yes, about human sin and human guilt. He wasn’t writing to raise money from those who would love to have a “your future is bright” imprimatur for the way things are. But there’s a hopefulness there. Part of that is because Percy was writing for the human conscience, not to raise direct-mail money from the outraged.

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