Lewis and L’Engle were the foundation of my early studies in Christian theology. Hers was the model upon which I wanted to build my own life. L’Engle was living my ideal life in both the Connecticut countryside and New York’s Upper Westside: sophisticated, intelligent, faithful, artistic surrounded by friends and religious people: nuns, canons, and priests from many religious orders hosting dinners that included talented artists, musicians, actors, doctors and extended family, both biological and adopted in various forms. I was enchanted by the charmed life narrated in the journals. I started with “Walking on Water: On Faith and Art,” followed by the Crosswicks journals. L’Engle’s nonfiction grabbed me in my early twenties. I was delighted when the characters from the two plots merged in later books. Don’t turn up your nose-there is some great sci-fi hiding among “The Amazons of Samelon”-type trash.Īlso around the age of 12, I found Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time.” As with Lewis, I did not stop at that first book, but went on to read “A Swiftly Tilting Planet” and “Meet the Austins,” following both the Murry and Austin families through each new novel. Next came the Perelandra trilogy, which started my love of science fiction. As I got slightly older, I delved into Lewis’s nonfiction.
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