Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. November 26, 1943
Birthday: November 26
Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.
source: "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.
topic: Religious, West, Denominations, Higher Learning