Marilynne Robinson's Beautiful Quartet: Religion made Flesh

What is religion? What does it mean to practice it deeply and authentically?

Forgive my use of “authentically”— it’s a complicated concept — but it feels right to use it here in its most common sense, that feeling we get when we’re with the truth of something. Kierkegaard, when he was walking around Copenhagen, thought most of the Christians he spoke to…