{"id":853,"date":"2004-01-13T08:59:07","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/01\/13\/flannery-oconnor-on-writing-christian-fiction\/"},"modified":"2004-01-13T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2004-01-13T16:59:07","slug":"flannery-oconnor-on-writing-christian-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/01\/13\/flannery-oconnor-on-writing-christian-fiction","title":{"rendered":"Flannery O\u2019Connor on writing Christian fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take heed, all you bud\u00adding nov\u00adel\u00adists \u2014 Flan\u00adnery O\u2019Con\u00adnor has shown the way! Read all about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/books\/features\/bookwk\/040112.html\">O\u2019Con\u00adnor v. the Antichrist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few quotes from O\u2019Con\u00adnor tak\u00aden from the essay:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIf you live today you breathe in nihilism. In or out of the Church, it\u2019s the gas you breathe. If I had\u00adn\u2019t had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the neces\u00adsi\u00adty of fight\u00ading it, I would be the stinkingest log\u00adi\u00adcal pos\u00adi\u00adtivist you ever saw right now.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In her most famous state\u00adment about her work, she explained that \u201cto the hard of hear\u00ading you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and star\u00adtling fig\u00adures.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAll my sto\u00adries,\u201d she wrote, \u201care about the action of grace on a char\u00adac\u00adter who is not very will\u00ading to sup\u00adport it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>O\u2019Con\u00adnor once wrote that \u201cmore than ever now it seems that the king\u00addom of heav\u00aden has to be tak\u00aden by vio\u00adlence, or not at all. You have to push as hard as the age that push\u00ades against you.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Check out the essay (or at least check out some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&amp;field-author=Flannery%20O%27Connor\/103-1547946-8467063\">O\u2019Con\u00adnor\u2019s books<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take heed, all you bud\u00adding nov\u00adel\u00adists \u2014 Flan\u00adnery O\u2019Con\u00adnor has shown the way! Read all about it in O\u2019Con\u00adnor v. the Antichrist. A few quotes from O\u2019Con\u00adnor tak\u00aden from the essay: \u201cIf you live today you breathe in nihilism. In or out of the Church, it\u2019s the gas you breathe. If I had\u00adn\u2019t had the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/01\/13\/flannery-oconnor-on-writing-christian-fiction\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cFlan\u00adnery O\u2019Connor on writ\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian fic\u00adtion\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}