Evensong Book

This book was very readable but ultimately very disappointing. The main disappointment is the main character, a young female Episcopal priest. She is basically the Reverend Mary Sue. All of her emotions are told, not shown. She is ever-serene and quietly musing, regardless of the chaos around her, and has a calm, wise answer for every question. She's just very unsatisfying. Her compliant is that her husband withdraws from her, but she's very withdrawn herself in my opinion and is virtually never shown confronting him and trying to draw him out. She just QUIETLY MUSES about it.
Also, she's an Episcopal priest and seems uncertain about whether Jesus was God. Wait a minute: WHAT?! She reads with approval a seminary candidate's application stating that Christianity and Hinduism can both be true at the same time. WHAT?!!!!! NO THEY ACTUALLY CAN'T!!! Believe them or not, Christianity makes very explicit and very EXCLUSIVE truth claims.
My final objection to this book was that there were multiple sub-plots that didn't come together in any satisfactory way in the end. All the way through the book the author drops hints about the fundamentalist character, Grace, possibly being an arsonist. But at the end when a church finally burns down, it's because SOMEBODY LEFT AN IRON ON! Again: WHAT?!! Grace is a way more interesting character than Margaret (aka Rev Mary Sue) but she doesn't ultimately get to play any role in the denouement and in the epilog has completely dropped out of sight. Remember what Chekov said "If you show a gun in Act One it had better be fired before the end of the play." Grace is the gun that was never fired.
It's frustrating to me that it seems so hard for anyone to write a serious book about people of faith. I generally dislike "Christian fiction" because it is so shallow (All Christian characters are good, all non-Christian characters are bad, Jesus solves everybody's problems, the end), and mainstream literature either ignores faith or only deals with wacko fundamentalists.
It's a shame this wasn't a better book, because I think it was a brave attempt and there were some really good theological and philosophical nuggets in it.