margaret turek and evangelizing.t is not only preaching the christian method , message, but seeing the christian truth and finding unexpected ways in which to see it. you mentioned flannery o'connor. her encapsulation of her vocation of the writer was -- >> she said it one point that the primary gift that she needed as a catholic writer was the gift of prophetic vision. notice it is vision. the capacity to see and to see prophetically by which she meant, not the capacity to read the future, but the capacity to see what is hidden. and for her, it is primarily the hidden presence of god. our god is the manual and with us, but in our increasingly secular age, god is less and less visible. and more easily forgettable. so god is becoming increasingly hidden. which she needs to do is find ways in the secular culture, to impregnate her stories with the presence of god. often the presence of god is best seen or recognized, by the negative pointers that she embeds in her text. she forces you to face the seeming absence of god