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Fragmented Lives of Incomplete Reckoning

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #49

Edmund B. Miller

Man’s efforts are lost if they are not embedded in and do not proceed from the eternal perspective, without which they remain fragmented impulses.

What Would Flannery O'Connor Say?

A CATHOLIC RESPONSE TO SAME-SEX ATTRACTION

Anne M. Maloney

Tyranny of the Perverse Will

EVIL FOR EVIL'S SAKE

Mitchell Kalpakgian

The Catholic Dramatist in a Protestant Land

ALL THE CHURCH'S A STAGE

Kenneth Colston

Macbeth, Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Falstaff, Henry IV — are these immortal portraits of sinful humanity not the very crucible of Shakespeare’s art?

Flannery O'Connor & the Representation of Mystery

ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD

Tracy Jamison

From the Grotesque to Love

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

A review of Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art

The Liberal as Graceless Pharisee

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Review of Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South

Flannery O'Connor: And Her Own Received Her Not

The Catholic bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, has banned A Good Man Is Hard to Find

The Incarnational Mind vs. the Captive Mind

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #13

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Exploring Catholicism

Guest Column

James Prothero

Affirming the Reality of the Spiritual

William D. Miller

Review of Harvard Diary by Robert Coles

New South, Old Religion

SUN-BELT PARADOXES & EXCESSES

James J. Thompson Jr.

Is the South still the Bible Belt? Well, yes — but then, no, too: at least not in precisely the same way it used to be.

Teaching and Learning, Strutting and Conniving

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Flannery O’Connor & the “Literary Temple”

A CHRIST WHO DISTURBS & TERRORIZES

Bruce L. Edwards Jr.

Relentlessly exposing human pride, avarice, and weakness, O'Connor agreed with C.S. Lewis that all things that are not eternal are eternally out of date.