In A Wrinkle in Time, you have my discovery of the new sciences of higher math, my struggles against limiting God, my struggle to work out a viable theology and a viable Christology and, of course, my foremost interest in writing a good story.
At the time I wrote Wrinkle, I was struggling with theology. I found much of “Christian” theology narrow, restrictive, and dogmatic. It limited God. I did not want my God shackled. And so I began to work out, in writing the book, a theology where I could comprehend a God loving enough to create and care for all of creation—not just a few little Christians on one minor planet in one minor solar system in the backwashes of one ordinary galaxy.
So it was a theological as well as a literary enterprise for me, but as a storyteller I had to make the story come first. I sat down and typed out “It was a dark and stormy night.” The theology is down deep. It’s not there unless you look for it. And that’s where I think it should be in stories. It should not hang below your skirt like a slip.