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“Novelists and short-story writers present human characters in all their complexity and realism, which unavoidably includes sin. Try to imagine a novel by Dostoyevsky, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, or John Updike – not to mention the entire genres of murder mysteries and legal thrillers – without a richly nuanced depiction of sin. Sin provides the hook, the pull that keeps a reader turning pages. Apart from sin and its consequences, fiction would read like a flat, deterministic tale of animal behaviour.”
—Philip Yancey in Rumours of Another World: What on earth are we missing? | 
