tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19138070.post-36930661095133112192008-01-18T09:50:00.000-05:002008-01-18T09:50:00.000-05:00Thanks for the lead on Bavnick Bryan! Yes, Graham Greene's Whiskey Priest. Also Walker Percy's Manic Priest (Thanatos Syndrome)and searching depressives (Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming, Lancelot) and bad Catholics (Love in the Ruins)come to mind; Also poets like W.H. Auden and Dylan Thomas; and musicians like Benjamin Britten--to name just a few more 20thC. examples: the glory they unveil in spite of their wretchedness hints to me that seeking sinners are often better able to expose God's Grace than the self-conscious, trim-n-tidies whose identity and energies are restricted to the comforts of the four-walled fold. Yes, God's love is foreign and untamed; it should be enough to terrify us before it exorcises our fear.JPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662119381527342765noreply@blogger.com