Flannery O’Connor, Christian Martyrs, Honesty Makes a Comeback, Sister Antonia Brenner, Christendom, Surfing Madonna, Screwtape Letters

Art by Greg Ruth for Slate

• The Prayers of Flannery O’Connor The deeply Catholic writer and the “insidious hands Oh Lord which grope into the darkness of my soul.” (Slate)

• The Believer: Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal reviewed by Marilynne Robinson (NY Times)

• Inheritance and Invention: Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal (New Yorker)

• God’s Grandeur: The Prayer Journal of Flannery O’Connor (Virginia Quarterly Review)

• A call for a more realistic reporting of Christian martyrs (Religion News Service)

• Rabbi returns $98,000 found in desk to original owner

• Antonia Brenner, ‘Prison Angel’ Who Took Inmates Under Her Wing, Is Dead at 86 (LA Times)

• Christianity is not going away by Mark Tooley (Washington Post)

• Surfing Madonna finds new home on Encinitas Boulevard

• The Devil you know: Why readers love the Screwtape Letters (New Yorker)