{"id":4843,"date":"2017-04-23T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T02:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2017-04-23T22:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T02:51:23","slug":"easter-is-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4843","title":{"rendered":"Easter Is the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate student wrote to ask if my Christianity affects my novels, and I replied that it is the other way around.  My writing affects my Christianity.  In a way one might say that my stories keep converting me back to Christianity, from which I am constantly tempted to stray because the circle of blessing seems frayed and close to breaking, and my faith is so frail and flawed that I fall away over and over again from my God.  There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause; but Easter is always the answer to <em>My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, <em>The Irrational Season<\/em>, p. 99, quoted in <em>Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, Herself<\/em>, compiled by Carole F. Chase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate student wrote to ask if my Christianity affects my novels, and I replied that it is the other way around. My writing affects my Christianity. In a way one might say that my stories keep converting me back to Christianity, from which I am constantly tempted to stray because the circle of blessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}