Meet America’s Most Important Christian Writer. Thornton Wilder once wrote: “The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem – new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.” These overviews from The Dish and from First Things (The Craft of Christian Wiman) consider how Chris Wiman reflects the moment we’re living through as much as he answers it, his work articulating the half-formed religious sensibility that is emerging amidst the churn of modern American life.