On St John Rivers and Jane Eyre

Why the call to discipleship is always universal and never uniform

Fiction, at its best, can tell us the truth in ways that no journalistic account ever can. The painstaking work of building worlds, of forming characters, of determining plot, can all conspire to bring us face to face with ourselves: with our joys and sorrows, our candour and our conceits, our hopes and our fears. Fiction can captivate our imagination b…