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#flannery-oconnor

6 items tagged #flannery-oconnor, across the whole site.

• Blog February 7, 2020

  Donkeys & Dongs: Ezekiel 23:20-21 in Context

  I asked my friends on Facebook if they had any questions regarding the Bible that a very inexperienced Christian might do his best to answer. (To be clear, I am the Very…

• Blog February 12, 2019

  Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

  I'm going to start with the easy stuff before it all falls apart.

• Blog September 6, 2018

  Universal Salvation, Universal Love

  I asked my pastor last night, an amazing woman named Jill McCrory of Twinbrook Baptist, what her most radical belief was w/r/t God and the Bible. She said, "Universal Salvation…

• Blog August 29, 2018

  Suffering, Part 1: Margaret

  Who were the homestead wives? Who were the gold rush brides? Does anybody know? Do their works survive their yellow fever lives in the pages they wrote? The land was free, yet it…

• Blog August 26, 2018

  Mystery

  "I was here and this house was here, you and I and this evening were here, and they had always been here." -- John Fowles, The Magus

• Blog August 15, 2018

  "I Guess I'll Read My Bible Elsewhere"

  A few weeks ago, at the Meeting House, Zach was breathing too loudly while he was sitting in quiet contemplation for the still small voice of God. A woman in front of us, panicked…