FLANNERY O’CONNOR: A WRITER OF UNCOMMON GRACE

The Easter Season seems a fitting time to pay tribute to the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O’Connor. O’Connor (1925-1964) was an only child who grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and whose father died of lupus. As a young woman she studied at the prestigious Iowa Workshop. On the verge of a promising […]

THE ABBESS OF ANDALUSIA

The Abbess of Andalusia, by Lorraine V. Murray, about the letters and life of Flannery O’Connor, moves, mystifies, and inspires. The intro by Joseph Pearce is first-rate: “It is the suffering of God Himself,” for example, “that makes sense of all suffering, and it is through Christ’s suffering that Christians find meaning and purpose in their […]