"This development places the believer on a frontier again, at the beginning of a new adventure"

Paul Elie in the NYT:

For the first time in our history it is possible to speak of Christianity matter-of-factly as one religion among many; for the first time it is possible to leave it out of the conversation altogether. This development places the believer on a frontier again, at the beginning of a new adventure; it means that the Christian who was born here is a stranger in a strange land no less than the Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Soviet Jews and Spanish-speaking Catholics who have arrived from elsewhere.

From his NYT piece about the dearth of any real engagement with Christian belief in contemporary American fiction.

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