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Annie Dillard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in literature at age 30, has written explicitly about her Christian faith. As a teen, however, she once decided to quit the church because of the hypocrisy of those who came Sunday mornings mainly to show off their clothes. Indignant, she marched into the assistant minister's office. "He Read more...https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2025/12/ogimage.png?resize=1200,6281200628