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What the Humanities Battle Is For

We’ve become accustomed to the “battle” language with regards to the liberal arts and the humanities in higher education. What if we pause for a moment to consider who is fighting whom and who are the casualties of this war? When we draw out the…

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 13, 2021

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On Being Human: Jessica Hooten Wilson

Recorded session from our staff retreat by Jessica Hooten Wilson How to Read with Humility and Hospitality How we read is as important as what we read. In this brief conversation, let's go over how to discern what's worth reading and how to read well.…

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 13, 2021

Podcast & Radio Interviews

Episode 2: Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson Talks about Dante’s Divine Comedy and Hop‪e‬

In episode 2 of Guardians of Beauty, Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson — the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas in the Classical Education and Humanities Graduate Program —talks about Dante Alighieri, widely regarded as one of Italy’s greatest poets, who wrote The Divine Comedy.…

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 13, 2021

Podcast & Radio Interviews

Walker Percy and the Modern Search for Self

Jessica Hooten Wilson is an author and speaker dedicated to the questions: What are the great stories and how do we pass them on? She is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence and a professor of Humanities and Classical Education at the University of Dallas.…

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 13, 2021

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University of St. Thomas, Houston Visiting Faculty 2021

Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson named visiting faculty at the University of St. Thomas, Houston for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. More information available on the University of St. Thomas Houston website here.

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 13, 2021

Articles & Essays

The Liberating Power of the Liberal Arts

An education in the liberal arts is one that teaches students to love what is true, good, and beautiful. It frees the soul and makes those who have received it want to pass that freedom on to others. The liberal arts free the soul not…

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 13, 2021

Events

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: Book Discussion Webinar

Russia’s rich history of culture, religion, and philosophical reflection has been a deposit of wisdom for American artists, religious thinkers, and political philosophers probing what it means to be human. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) stands out as the key figure in this conversation, as both a…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 17, 2020

Articles & Essays

What ‘The Lord of the Rings’ can teach us about U.S. politics, Christianity and power

I always thought the Shire was better than the Ring of Power. To love The Lord of the Rings, one must desire the simple life of ordinary things, of anonymity, of local community, of what can still sometimes be found in rural, small-town America. When Frodo…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 12, 2020

Articles & Essays

THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS DARKLY

How (and how not) to be certain of yourself. When I was a little girl, my favourite book was Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As much as I disliked cats, the Cheshire Cat defied all expectations with his wisdom. Alice is lost in the woods,…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 12, 2020

Events

Mars Hill 2020: Tolkien & Dostoevskey

The Mars Hill Forum is hosted by University Christian Fellowship—a ministry of the Christian Fellowship family of local churches in Central Kentucky—as one of a series of events aimed at reaching the University of Kentucky and surrounding area with the truth and beauty of the…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 12, 2020

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What the Humanities Battle Is For

On Being Human: Jessica Hooten Wilson

Episode 2: Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson Talks about Dante’s Divine Comedy and Hop‪e‬

Walker Percy and the Modern Search for Self

University of St. Thomas, Houston Visiting Faculty 2021

The Liberating Power of the Liberal Arts

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: Book Discussion Webinar

What ‘The Lord of the Rings’ can teach us about U.S. politics, Christianity and power

THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS DARKLY

Mars Hill 2020: Tolkien & Dostoevskey

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