In case you wondered …

… What’s God Got to Do with Religion? — The American Interest. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss is a work, I think, of real genius. It is the most powerful memoir of a life re-viewed in the light of religious transformation since Thomas Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain or Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness, and it is more philosophically searching than either of those ancestors. Ronald Dworkin’s Religion Without God, a moving philosophical tract, offers a lovely and thoughtful account of a religious mindset within a broadly liberal picture of the world. It reminds us all, liberals and non-liberals alike, of the profound normative energies coursing through an apparently cool-minded political philosophy.