“After So Many Fires”: Sacrament of a Broken World

By |2019-08-30T11:20:51-05:00January 23rd, 2018|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Flannery O'Connor, Literature, Poetry|

In the poetry of Jeremiah Webster’s After So Many Fires, we have found Flannery O’Connor’s Protestant counterpart. Though an Anglican, Dr. Webster weaves his words on the same theological loom as O’Connor, seeing in the world’s maddening duality a divine coherence… After So Many Fires by Jeremiah Webster (65 pages, Anchor and Plume, 2017) I first encountered Jeremiah [...]