Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against "the self-pity now popularly dubbed alienation," he praised the students' concern for social justice, but reminded them that "the ugliness of the radical" is no different from the "ugliness of the reactionary." Both share "the sin of arrogance," which is freedom's enemy. He concluded by revising Barry Goldwater's famous campaign dictum: "Intolerance in the name of freedom is no virtue; patience in the name of justice is no vice...
...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...
...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...