No One’s Better at Doubt and Despair than Pastors

Whatever sense belief makes of death, it has to incorporate its self-evident reality, not deny it

Save Marilynne Robinson’s Rev. Ames in Gilead or the Rev. Mclean in A River Runs Through It, the clergymen of literature skew heavy towards the phony, contemptible, and intellectually incurious. Indeed they’re a not insignificant reason that t…