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EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. The last stories of a powerful Southern writer who died last year at 39. She dramatizes her ever-recurring themes: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, and the Georgia earth she knew so well...
...confess before God and the world," the report said, "that we have been guilty of the sin of conformity to the world, that we have often followed the vain traditions of men instead of the mind of Christ, and that our silence and fear have all too frequently made us stumbling blocks instead of stepping-stones in the area of race relations. In a spirit of true repentance, we prayerfully rededicate ourselves to the Christian ministry of reconciliation between Negroes and whites...
...many Baptists, the significance of these steps was not the formal condemnation of segregation-something that plenty of Baptist laymen and ministers have done for years-but the recognition by a new generation of church leaders that their traditional conception of sin and evil must be broadened. The Rev. Browning Ware, of Beaumont, Texas, expressed the general anxiety vividly. He questioned pastors who "buckle on the armor of protectors of public interest and rush to do battle with gambling, liquor, and separation of church and state" while taking little heed of "conflicts in human relations, adequate education, and poverty...
After the World War I defeat and the Versailles Treaty, which sought to impose "war guilt" on the vanquished, Germany developed, in the words of one historian, "an overwhelming sense of communal shame"-not for causing the war, but for the old Spartan sin of losing it. Delayed nationhood, humiliation, plus economic chaos and the example of Communist methods from which the Nazis borrowed much-each is essential but none is sufficient to explain Nazism. It could not have happened but for two additional qualities that in the past at least have always seemed to be part of the German...
...Back. A lifelong Catholic, Author O'Connor wrote exclusively of ultimate things: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, the old Adam and the new life. But she was a poet of region as well as religion, and in this new collection of nine stories, which belong among the finest examples of American Gothic, she celebrates in Southern guises he old violent dialogue of the demonic and the divine...