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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

In which we demonstrate our foolishness.
Jared Henderson
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Fr. Wesley Walker
Apr 11, 2023
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Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood is…something. A Catholic novel, a debut novel, a difficult and strange novel. Wesley and Jared discuss Wise Blood, the difficulty in reading about difficult characters, religion in O’Connor’s works, and much more.

‘Hazel Motes Is Not Black’: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26671329'

Uncommon Grace: https://www.pbs.org/video/uncommon-grace-the-life-of-flannery-oconnor-yv87qa/

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