Flannery O'Connor
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Sep 12, 2026
Brad DoyleHOST
It's the question that everyone who wants to follow Jesus, everyone who wants to be in communion with our Lord, the one who saves us, we should ask, what does this mean? What is it? Because if it is, it changes everything.
Brad DoyleHOST
And as Flannery O'Connor said, if it's just a symbol, then to hell with it.
Brad DoyleHOST
Right? Is the cup of blessing God? not a participation of the blood of Christ.
Brad DoyleHOST
He says, because the loaf of bread is one, we though many are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf, one Lord, one baptism, one faith.
Patrick FosterHOST
Turns out I wasn't right.
Patrick FosterHOST
This one reminds me of a Flannery O'Connor short story where you've got all the humor and the details, and then all of a sudden the knife gets thrust in right at the end.
Patrick FosterHOST
May I? Yeah.
Patrick FosterHOST
I pulled
Will SwaimHOST
Sometimes rode literally in horseback and were helicoptered in and put these guys to the sword.
Will SwaimHOST
I hate to sound violent, but sometimes, what was it Flannery O'Connor said? Some guys just need shooting.
Will SwaimHOST
So I was delighted.
Will SwaimHOST
All right.
Anthony SteinHOST
Previous to Vatican II, they would've said, "The Church of Christ is the Catholic Church," but now they say, "The Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church." It's a phrase enabling essentially any vaguely Christian group to be called part of the Church or part of the body of Christ.
Anthony SteinHOST
"It is that sense that lets Catholics say and mean Mother Church and to cultivate a deep personal love for the Church, even when, as Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend who had converted to Catholicism, 'It could seem that we have to suffer as much from the Church as for it.'" Eh, you know, Church's teaching here.
Anthony SteinHOST
But then he goes here.
Anthony SteinHOST
"When the Church says something on a contentious political issue, however, we are often tempted to move directly to defending or arguing with whatever it was the Church said without thinking through how it actually got said.
Russell MooreHOST
A man living out in Henry County, Kentucky, writing poems and novels, doesn't seem to have anything to say to this.
Russell MooreHOST
But Barry is informed by a religious understanding in kind of the same way Flannery O'Connor is informed by such.
Russell MooreHOST
Flannery O'Connor, of course, by her Catholicism, but Barry is a Baptist, but the kind of Baptist who's suspicious of the church and who critiques John 3.16.
Russell MooreHOST
So, as Jay Bercow puts it, articulating words that sound to me a lot like Barry himself.
Russell MooreHOST
I am maybe the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road.
TrevorHOST
Yeah
Del SandeenGUEST
... um, Flannery O'Connor, um, just down to, like, the, the more modern writers like Eden Royce, um, Jesmyn Ward-
TrevorHOST
Oh, gosh, yeah
Del SandeenGUEST
... you know? Michael McDowell.
JaredHOST
I'm trying to get the mansion or whatever.
JohnHOST
One I always think about is Flannery O'Connor, who would just sit at her desk from, like, 9:00 a.m. to, like, noon every day.
JohnHOST
Whether she wrote anything down or not, she would just put herself in the practice of doing it.
JaredHOST
Yeah.
Henry WiseGUEST
It seems hard for me to get away from these themes of religion and how faith and fate and destiny and... judgment, all of these things can be sort of tangled up.
Henry WiseGUEST
And I'm always reminded of what Flannery O'Connor said.
Henry WiseGUEST
She said, the South is Christ haunted.
Henry WiseGUEST
And I find that so interesting because, you know, you'll drive through Tennessee or something and you'll see all these adult bookstores off the side of I-40.
Michael ReneauGUEST
It's funny you bring that up because I don't ever do this, but I agreed with some guys from my church to be part of a reform or, I don't know, participate in a sort of impromptu book club.
Michael ReneauGUEST
So we all read Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood.
Michael ReneauGUEST
And just two nights ago, yeah, today's Wednesday.
Michael ReneauGUEST
So on Monday night, we got together and discussed it for like three hours with some bourbon.
Corey NathanHOST
Oh, man.
Michael ReneauGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Michael ReneauGUEST
So all these conversations, I mean, Flannery O'Connor, I devoured her short stories when I was in college and after college, and I had not read either of her two novels.
Michael ReneauGUEST
And so reading Wise Blood was my first foray into her longer fiction.
Jeff NelsonGUEST
The individual enters into it, becomes part of it, and then sort of begins to forge various habits and dispositions in what would sometimes, what Burke would say, manners.
Jeff NelsonGUEST
The 18th century used the word manners to sort of begin to now appreciate to form attachments to our families, our communities, our institutions, and then sort of love them in a way that, you know, and I think that this is what Kirk was trying to get at, that, you know, we have to have an openness to kind of reality that is not easily reduced to a political formula, but is in and of itself a kind of habit of being, as Flannery O'Connor called it.
Jeff NelsonGUEST
And I think that is a kind of a fundamental conservative orientation.
Jeff NelsonGUEST
And it allows us to fall back a little bit on kind of the great virtues of classical virtue of prudence, you know, having some kind of practical wisdom that we're sort of gaining over time and that over time we have these habits, we have these virtues that we developed and that in time form, you know, a kind of appreciation for the civil social order.
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