Augustine's "Confessions" Cont.; William Faulkner (Literature & Spirituality #29

Our passage from the Word of God today is 1 Timothy 4:13 which reads: "Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine."

Our quote today is from Chinua Achebe. He said: "Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away. If it does that, it's a miracle."

In this podcast, we are using as our texts: "Literature and Spirituality" by Yaw Adu-Gyamfi and Mark Ray Schmidt, and "Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing" by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia.

Today, we will continue reading a selection from Augustine's "Confessions."

This selection is from Book II - Augustine's Sixteenth Year / Chapter 2 - Love and Lust

Our second topic for today is "Reading a Story, Part 29" from the book, "Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing" by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia.

Today, we will get to know William Faulkner by reading a short bio about him.