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Bruner's witticism reminds me of a gift that my father once gave me, a luminescent cobalt rock. It's glass, he explained, created when lightning hit the sand. The rock is something like O'Connor's stories. Yes, her characters may be treated like dirt, and their moments of grace may cause them pain and shock. Yet O'Connor shows us something true about our nature, our suffering, and God's grace. When struck by lightning, even dirt becomes beautiful. --Sharon G. Thornton, Christian Century This book accomplished something I was not expecting--it caused me to love another author. It is no surprise that the author was Flannery O'Connor, who Bruner has an obvious and profound respect for. What is unexpected is the degree to which I followed him into that affection. The answers are no more black-and-white than the characters from O'Connor's novels, but the meaning to be found by walking with them becomes stitched to you, hemmed in by the very Spirit of God. --Alex Parish, blogger, www.bonsaibonfire.com

"""Bruner's readings of particular scenes are often powerful and convincing, his grasp of the material is profound, and . . . his total vision for O'Connor and her work is captivating and often rightly challenging. O'Connor's fiction presents a deeply Christian challenge to the multiple complacencies of modern culture--including, or perhaps especially, Christian culture. Bruner offers a coherent and sympathetic theological reading of the subversive world O'Connor offers, a world perhaps trembling beneath the surface of our own."" --Jonathan M. Platter, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 25:3 (2018) ""Bruner's witticism reminds me of a gift that my father once gave me, a luminescent cobalt rock. ""It's glass,"" he explained, ""created when lightning hit the sand."" The rock is something like O'Connor's stories. Yes, her characters may be treated like dirt, and their moments of grace may cause them pain and shock. Yet O'Connor shows us something true about our nature, our suffering, and God's grace. When struck by lightning, even dirt becomes beautiful."" --Sharon G. Thornton, Christian Century ""This book accomplished something I was not expecting--it caused me to love another author. It is no surprise that the author was Flannery O'Connor, who Bruner has an obvious and profound respect for. What is unexpected is the degree to which I followed him into that affection. The answers are no more black-and-white than the characters from O'Connor's novels, but the meaning to be found by walking with them becomes stitched to you, hemmed in by the very Spirit of God."" --Alex Parish, blogger, www.bonsaibonfire.com"

This book accomplished something I was not expecting--it caused me to love another author. It is no surprise that the author was Flannery O'Connor, who Bruner has an obvious and profound respect for. What is unexpected is the degree to which I followed him into that affection. The answers are no more black-and-white than the characters from O'Connor's novels, but the meaning to be found by walking with them becomes stitched to you, hemmed in by the very Spirit of God. --Alex Parish, blogger, www.bonsaibonfire.com Bruner's witticism reminds me of a gift that my father once gave me, a luminescent cobalt rock. It's glass, he explained, created when lightning hit the sand. The rock is something like O'Connor's stories. Yes, her characters may be treated like dirt, and their moments of grace may cause them pain and shock. Yet O'Connor shows us something true about our nature, our suffering, and God's grace. When struck by lightning, even dirt becomes beautiful. --Sharon G. Thornton, Christian Century

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Michael Mears Bruner (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of practical theology at Azusa Pacific University. Born and raised in the Philippines as the son of missionaries, he is currently a resident scholar at the Huntington Library, an ordained minister in the PC(USA), and a recent recipient of a Lilly Endowment in theology and the arts.

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