Flannery O’Connor, the American Catholic writer, once described the modern South as “Christ-haunted.” She used this expression to describe a society that had become increasingly distant from Christianity but could not escape its presence. Christ is no longer at the center of people’s lives in the way He once was, yet His shadow remains everywhere. […]
In the world of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, grace rarely arrives in comfortable form; most often it arrive through humiliation, suffering, and grotesque moments in which a person’s carefully constructed understanding of himself is suddenly deconstructed and exposed as a lie. Few of her stories demonstrate this more powerfully than “Revelation,” first published in 1964, the […]
“A Christian civilization, if it loses its faith, becomes dangerously nihilistic.” Join David Gornoski as he sits down with Gil Bailie for a deep-diving conversation on Bailie’s latest book The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self. What does the idea of personhood signify in light of the Christian revelation? Have we lost the sense of self […]