In Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation,” we see the status anxiety that is driving many Americans towards reactionary politics.
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Flannery O’Connor’s DEI Revelation
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I Am the Blossom Pressed in the Book
In this poem, Jane Kenyon speaks of moments that come with the force of revelation.
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O’Connor: Some Racism but Still Great
Flannery O’Connor may have been a racist, but her depiction of the fragility of white racism is spot on.
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My Blind Eyes Were Touched with Light
Helen Keller’s poem about revelation–“In the Garden of the Lord”–has a vision of revelation that is all the more powerful because we know the speaker is literally blind. That gives special poignancy to the line, “My blind eyes were touched with light.”
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Flannery O’Connor’s Dislike of Ayn Rand
Flannery O’Connor couldn’t stand Ayn Rand. With good reason.
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Let He Who Is without Sin Judge Others
Spiritual Sunday Jackie Paskow, a former colleague from the Foreign Language Department, recently mentioned to me a Flannery O’Connor story that had made an impact on her. We normally visit the Paskows on Sunday evenings—Alan is my friend who has cancer—but as we are out of town for the week, I thought I’d send her, […]
