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Jessica Hooten Wilson

Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative announces $15.6M in new grants to 33 institutions Featured

Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative announces $15.6M in new grants to 33 institutions

Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc. and Wake Forest University, the Educating Character Initiative (ECI) has awarded $15.6 million in new Institutional Impact Grants to 28 projects among 33 colleges and universities. Each of these institutions seeks to undertake a substantial and sustained effort to educate character…
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July 11, 2025
The Scandalous Holy Talks & Lectures

The Scandalous Holy

Watch "The Scandalous Holy" by Jessica Hooten Wilson at Oklahoma Baptist University on Youtube here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTrEahuhMg Listen to more of my talks on Dante's Divine Comedy. https://jessicahootenwilson.com/episode-2-dr-jessica-hooten-wilson-talks-about-dantes-divine-comedy-and-hop%e2%80%aae%e2%80%ac/
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May 11, 2021
Meeting 2: The Nature and Significance of Liberal Education Podcast & Radio Interviews

Meeting 2: The Nature and Significance of Liberal Education

Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson---the Louise Cowan Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Dallas, recipient of the 2019 Hiett Prize for the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and author of numerous books including Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov--joined…
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May 11, 2021
Misdirected Passion Book Reviews

Misdirected Passion

Perhaps a hundred years ago feels too distant to be relevant. How much more disconnected does seven hundred years ago feel? Yet, when reporters asked Sigrid Undset why she wrote medieval sagas, the Nobel Prize winning novelist answered, “You can only write novels of your…
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April 20, 2021