Charles, Danny, and Heather discuss Flannery O'Connor's short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge" with an eye to O'Connor's role as a between-the-councils Catholic writer, an ear to the story's portrayal of envy and love, and a dash of Hans Urs von Balthasar to taste. External Links:“Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor“Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” written and read by Flannery O’Connor