A Conversation with Dr. Marilynne Robinson about Jack

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Russell Moore

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode of Signposts, I am joined by Dr. Marilynne Robinson to talk about her new novel, Jack (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020). In our conversation we talk about the place of religion in society, sin and evil, and the transforming place of grace in each of our lives. and Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of novels such as Gilead(Picador, 2005), Home (Picador, 2008), and Lila (Picador, 2014), as well as a collection of essays, The Death of Adam (Picador, 2005). Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016. I invite you to listen in to our conversation and be sure to subscribe to receive future episodes of Signposts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.6	you to pull up a chair while I have conversations with thinkers and
1:04.8	leaders where we look for what Walker Percy would call signposts in a
1:08.8	strange land and I have been looking forward to this conversation for so long.
1:15.0	Marilyn Robinson is with us today.
1:18.0	And most of you know Marilyn Robinson.
1:20.0	She is the author of the Gilead Bux, Gilead Home, and Lila that I talked about on reading
1:26.7	in exile and quote just about every week.
1:31.5	She's the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Hemingway Award, many, many awards, including
1:37.6	the National Humanities Medal awarded by President Obama, and she has written some of my favorite books in the world
1:45.1	both collections of essays and her novels and this year she has a new book in
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