I knew I'd like her!

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Quotes from Newsweek interview with Madeleine L'Engle:

Interviewer - Many people see faith as anti-intellectual.
L'Engle: Then they’re not very bright. It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.

Interviewer - If the Bible is not literally true, does that mean we don’t need to take it seriously?
L'Engle: Oh no, you do, because it’s truth, not fact, and you have to take truth seriously even when it expands beyond the facts.

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That is serious good stuff. Thank you for sharing.

There aren't many staunch mainstream proponants of faith any more, it seems. Kierkegaard was really right, I think: nowadays we often have unjust scorn for faith; we try to move beyond faith, not realizing that there is nothing beyond faith worth moving to. We are not content to turn water into wine, he wrote, but we try to turn wine back into water. (And just think -- he wrote in the nineteenth century, yet. Possibly even pre-Darwin, if I recall correctly.)

Trust a novelist to know that there are truths deeper than fact -- 'tis a goodly part of why I'm an English major.

Love you! (Where are you?)
~T