Because of who she is and what she has written she is quite in demand on college campuses, including, in particular, conservative religious colleges. L'Engle goes on to note, as many of us have noted, that there is a general understanding and appreciation that the Christian church is founded on love, God's active love, God's promise of love. Creation is not neutral. The One who made it is loving. It was that estimation that overcame the strangeness of this new thing.
Christians are about judgment or condemnation.
But that's not what we stand for, not why our little boat is tossing itself around on rough seas. After ten years she had really put her life on a firm footing. The result was, among other things, she was offered a really good job. She told Madeleine that she would drive from New York to California by herself, to take the job. I was greatly concerned about her doing this, it's an awful long trip for a woman to take alone.