Gritty Grace: Alan Altany and Pilgrimage (Forecast Ep 49)

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Religion professor Alan Altany describes how, as a young man, he wrestled with doubt, panic and anxiety - but how that ultimately led to a deep faith. He reads his poem 'From Here to Eternity', discussing the relationship between the sacred and the secular in his life and writing. Finally, he notes how writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton and Fyodor Dostoyevsky have strengthened and nourished him.

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Alan Altany, Ph.D., is a septuagenarian college professor of religious studies. You can visit his website here.

Alan's previous work on Foreshadow:
From Here to Eternity (Poetry, February 2023)
The Seven Deadlies (Poetry, October 2022)
Grunewald's Crucifixion (Poetry, September 2022)
Habit of Being Wise (Poetry, October 2022) 

Josh Seligman is the founding editor of Foreshadow.