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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: 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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September 25, 2009: Harvey Cox
In his new book on the difference between faith and belief, this Harvard professor and scholar of religion says what it means to be religious is shifting significantly as the 21st century unfolds.
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September 25, 2009: Harvey Cox Extended Interview
Read more of Bob Abernethy’s interview in Cambridge, Massachusetts with theologian and Harvard professor Harvey Cox.
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September 25, 2009: Yizkor Requiem
Composer and conducter Thomas Beveridge says his Yizkor Requiem is "a quest for spiritual roots" and a musical bridge between Christianity and Judaism.
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July 2, 2009: Women’s Spiritual Voices: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian
On May 21, 2009 the Moroccan American Cultural Center and the American Jewish Committee sponsored an interfaith panel discussion in New York City on "Women’s Spiritual Voices: Crossing Continents, Finding Common Ground." Panelists explored the roles of women religious leaders in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
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June 12, 2009: Extended Interview: Brad Braxton
Read more of the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly interview with the Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton.
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June 5, 2009: Paul Pearson on Thomas Merton
Read more of Judy Valente’s interview about Thomas Merton with Paul Pearson, director and archivist at Bellarmine University’s Thomas Merton Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
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