The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

Andrew Klavan's journey from New York-born, Jewish, former atheist novelist and screenwriter to baptized and confessing Jesus as Lord is a tale worth telling.

Through his childhood outside NYC, college dropout wanderings, and growing success as a writer, literature helped him interpret the world and understand his place in it.

His readings of Hamlet and Freud became crucial life-giving supports during severe depression that took him to the brink of suicide.

Lieing in bed reading Patrick O'Brien's seafaring tales, he found the courage to say a prayer - "thank you" - that overturned his life and led to his baptism in NYC.

The stories of Western literature led Andrew Klavan to Jesus.

This is Klavan's story of that journey.