The salient fact is where she is NOW, no where she used to be in her atheistic/agnostic phase.
Nearly all the great saints of Christianity led lives of depravity, godlessness and selfishness before their conversion. From St.Augustine thru St.Francis, Ignatius Loyola, to the present -- all were reprobates until their conversion. Oscar Wilde expressed this reality best: "Every saint has a past and every sinner a future."
She certainly is not a Christian. Sort of all-faiths-have-validity-God-within-each-of-us-quasi-Buddhist maybe.
And if you read the article, she admires religious Americans except for the religious right, who are defined by the Left Behind fans, and have a psychiatric disorder.
And she knows Islam is a peaceful religion, much less violent over a 1500 year history than Christians have been.
Mrs VS