Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 14 minutes ago

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Flannery O'Connor's fiction was set in what she referred to as the "Christ-Haunted South," and featured numerous characters who seized on specific passages or themes from the Bible, and created entire theologies around them.

Matt Swaim shares how reading the works of Flannery O'Connor helped him understand that there had to be a better way to understand the Bible than through the lens of "sola Scriptura" and the Right of Private Judgment, and how O'Connor's own commitment to her Catholic Faith helps make sense of the chaotic world of her fiction.

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