Casey Cep wrote, “Marilynne Robinson is one of the great religious novelists, not only of our age, but any age. Reading her new novel Lila, one wonders how critics could worry that American fiction has lost its faith, though such worries make one think there might well have been wedding guests at Cana who complained about the shortage of water after witnessing the miracle with wine.” (via Alan Jacobs)
She’s another “Christian” writer I have a hard time taking seriously because she endorses a Socialist president who thought it okay to refuse medical help to babies born alive during botched abortions (not to mention his views on abortion in general). I wonder what her views are on homosexuality and gay mirage.
I don’t know, but I’m not willing to break fellowship or doubt the sincerity of the faith of people whose politics or sociology is different than mine. Here. Read Rod Dreher’s words on her.