Marilynne Robinson is an award winning novelist, author of
Gilead (which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005),
Housekeeping and
The Death of Adam and an esteemed essayist. For my writing seminar themed around "the faith between us," I recently read her essay in the American Scholar entitled "Onward, Christian Liberals." I found another
essay in Harper's by her - a witty and intelligent critique of Richard Dawkin's (who btw has just come out with a new book on evolution)
The God Delusion.
I just discovered that Marilynne Robinson's essay is entitled "Hysterical Scientism" is included in the 2007 The Best American Spiritual Writing from pg. 264-275 :)
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