From North Carolina-A retired Episcopal bishop and a disabled Catholic woman from Georgia who's been dead for half a century might seem an odd couple. For the Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., it's a match made in heaven.
Parsley, the retired bishop of Atlanta, will speak on “Encounters with Grace” (the lecture's title) in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor at 7 p.m. Friday in the St. James Great Hall at 25 S. Third St. Admission is free.
“Her stories, in a way, are parables,” said Parsley, who has been vacationing at a family-owned cottage at Wrightsville Beach. “Her fiction is transformative.”
O'Connor (1925-1964), who died of complications from lupus before the age of 40, received a posthumous National Book Award for her collected stories. Parsley chuckled as he recalled one of O'Connor's favorite remarks: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.”
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