The Ecumenical Imagination

"Imagination is not free but bound"

I was teaching the final week of Flannery O’Connor at the University of St. Thomas MFA program last night and meditating on her essay “The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South.” If I wrote an essay in imitation of hers it would be “The Protestant Writer in the Catholic Club.” I’m in a strange—but wonderful!—position of directing the Fourth Biennia…