Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, podcast by the young hip and lay editors of America media that lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them

join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith, culture in the news, often over drinks.

I am Zach Davis and I am once again hosting this show by myself.

My co-host Ashley is on a well-deserved vacation this week to Amman Jordan so

Please continue to send her good vibes thoughts and prayers her way. She'll be back next week, and so we'll have a full episode for you then.

But this week, I wanted to introduce you

to one of my favorite episodes from the past couple of years.

And this is a conversation we had

about Tony Morrison. This was one of our most popular episodes from 2021 so if you've

been listening to the show since then it's well worth revisiting and if you are new, first of all,

welcome and really excited to introduce you to this. So Tony Morrison, beloved author, passed away in

2019. She wrote Song of Solomon, Beloved, a number of other books. And you know,

she isn't typically talked about in the same vein as people like Flannery O'Connor,

Thomas Merton, Graham Green, Evelyn Wall, you know, these authors that I was taught and

think of as these, you know, stalwarts of the Catholic literary imagination.

And the question is why? Because Tony Morrison was Catholic and that influence is all over the place in her novels.

Maybe you're thinking, Zach, who are you is an authority on this subject? And I'm to tell you you don't have to take my word for it because we have a great conversation with nod your nadr niddle to share with you and she's the author of the book Tony Morrison's Spiritual Vision,

Faith, Folk Tales, and Feminism in her life and literature.

So stick around for that, but first,

I do want to give a huge shout out this week

to a new Patreon supporter. Huge thank you to Mike Tierney. He hosts a great show

called Pop Culture Catechism that you should check out if you're, wherever you're listening to

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