Farrell O’Gorman to speak at Christianity & Literature Conference
March 5th, 2010
[N.B. This is the offical press release. Farrell O'Gorman is the Idylls Press author of Awaiting Orders.]
Grove City College will host “Pilgrims in Place,” the 2010 Mideast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, on March 11-13. The conference seeks to explore interactions between Christianity, literature and notions of pilgrimage and place.
The conference will feature lectures by speakers Dr. Steven Bouma-Prediger of Hope College in Holland, Mich., and Dr. Farrell O’Gorman, a novelist and associate professor of Catholic studies at Depaul University in Chicago, Ill. The lectures, held in Sticht Lecture Hall in the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus, are open to the public.
Bouma-Prediger, co-author of “Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement,” will give a lecture on “Sojourners in a Time of Homelessness” at 7 p.m. on March 11. He will also give a chapel address at 9:30 a.m. on “The Homemaking Father.”
O’Gorman, author of “Awaiting Orders,” and a highly acclaimed study on Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor, will speak at 1:30 p.m. on March 12. His lecture is titled “Seeking Our ‘True Country’ in American Literature.”
The presentations by Bouma-Prediger and O’Gorman are free; no tickets or registration are required.











