… John Updike the Blogger | Stephen H. Webb | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The net impact of this rather cheerful form of Christianity on his reception as a writer was decidedly negative, and he knew it. “As to critics, it seems to be my fate to disappoint my theological friends by being not Christian enough, while I’m too Christian for Harold Bloom’s blessing. So be it.” Updike was not a martyr for his faith, but he was not above treating mainline Protestantism as the cross he was meant to carry.
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