margaret turek and we are talking about evangelizing. that is not only preaching the christian message but seeing the christian truth and finding unexpected ways in which to see it. you mentioned flannery o'connor and her encapsulation as a writer was -- >> she said at one point that the primary gift that she needed as a catholic writer was the gift of prophetic vision. the vision is the capacity to see and see prophetically. by which she meant not the capacity to read the future but the capacity to see what is hidden. and again, for her it is primarily the hidden presence of god. our god is with us but in our increasingly secular age, god is less and less visible. and more easily forgettable. so god is becoming increasingly hidden. and what she needs to do is find ways in this 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 she embeds in her tactics. she forces you to face the seemingly absence of god, this desert experience of our contempo