We discussed Mother Teresa’s “dark night of the soul” earlier this week. It’s also the topic of conversation at the Washington Post‘s “On Faith” blog. Dr. Albert Mohler has weighed in on the matter, and here is what he concludes:

I just received the latest issue of Touchstone magazine in the mail yesterday. You won’t want to miss Donald T. Williams’ article, “Writers Cramped,” in which he outlines three things that evangelical authors can learn from Flannery O’Connor. The opening of the article sets up and asks a penetrating question: My fellow Evangelicals publish reams upon reams of prose. What we have not tended to write is anything recognized as having literary value by the literary world. What makes this failure remarkable is that our Protestant forebears include a number of people who did: Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, John Milton, and John Bunyan, to mention a few. Equally…

The Associated Press reports that one in four adults did not read a single book last year. “Of those who did read,” the story said, “women and older people were most avid, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices.”

Perhaps you have heard that Billy Graham was recently hospitalized for intestinal bleeding. According to a newspaper in North Carolina, his condition is improving. (HT: Bruce Tomaso)