I m sure we asked Henri Nouwen at that time and he did not. But, Madeline L Engle did, Richard Foster, Eugene Peterson, Philip Yancey, Walt Wangerin, Luci Shaw, Greg Wolfe, myself. There s more, but those are the ones whose product is pretty continually in the marketplace to some degree. C.S. Lewis once said that we do not need more Christian authors, but we do need more authors who are Christian. I think that he s right about that.
Great writers write about the whole world at once.
I think that s what Lewis is saying. He s saying that the use of the word Christian writer implies that there are some people who live within the subculture and write about the subculture. There are few Christian writers, like himself, I think, who live within secular culture and hold to a Christian world view. And those kind of people wrote about the whole world at once but always saw it through the filter of their own faith. I think that s what he s saying.