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November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor
Some have called Flannery O'Connor our only great Christian writer, a Catholic from the Deep South who said her subject was “the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.”
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November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor Redux
Forty-five years after her death, how do Flannery O'Connor's views about the South, race, violence, Catholicism, and Christian realism hold up?
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November 20, 2009: Brad Gooch Extended Interview
"She was a great reader of theology," says Flannery O'Connor biographer Brad Gooch. "She said reading theology made her fiction bolder."
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November 20, 2009: Ralph Wood Extended Interview
"For Flannery O'Connor, race was indeed the curse of the South in the sense that it was the single most important test which we as white Christians failed."
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November 20, 2009: Father Thomas Joseph White Extended Interview
Reading Flannery O'Connor "was the first time I had read a Christian thinker or writer who I thought was impressive intellectually and challenging."
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November 20, 2009: HIV-AIDS in DC
"How do we save our community?" asks Bishop Rainey Cheeks of Inner Light Ministries in Washington, DC. "We can have all the other theological debates later on, but right now we are in trouble."
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November 20, 2009: Eid al-Adha
When the hajj comes to an end, Muslims will distribute meat to the poor and recall Abraham's willingness to offer his son to God.
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Health Care Reform: Catholics and Abortion Coverage
Watch Cardinal Francis George, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, and John O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, discuss abortion and health care reform.
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November 13, 2009: Muslims in the Military
"Islam gives Muslims and America the right to defend itself against terrorism, and therefore Muslims should be proud and are proud of their service in the US military," says Imam Yahya Hendi, a Muslim chaplain.
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