Joanna Russ — American Writer born on February 22, 1937,

Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire... (wikipedia)

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.