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From a Consumerist Death, Deliver Us O Lord

You can have your body cremated and your ashes preserved in a golf bag. Etsy will personalize it with any final words of your choosing. We are at the point where a “Golfatorium,” to borrow the poet Thomas Lynch’s phrase, “seems, fetched only as far…

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 20, 2020

Articles & Essays

From a Consumerist Death, Deliver Us O Lord

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 20, 2020

Book Reviews

Poetry with the Power to Rescue Us

A new collection of poems from Brett Foster helps us see lost goods, neglected beauties, and forgotten truths. Brett Foster and I had planned to meet for dinner on November 14, 2015; instead, I attended his funeral. I had not heard back from him in weeks…

Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 18, 2020

Articles & Essays

A Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Asks: Has It Happened at Last?

Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?—Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins…

Jessica Hooten WilsonMarch 31, 2020

Articles & Essays

Bringing forth Lazarus from a blank canvas

Life is built, and then it stops, and then Christ reaches in and brings it forward again. Ross Wilson is an internationally acclaimed artist who was honored by Queen Elizabeth II with a British Empire Medal. If you visit London, you can see his portraits…

Jessica Hooten WilsonMarch 16, 2020

Interviews Podcast & Radio Interviews

First Things Podcast Interview by Mark Bauerlein on Incarnational Realism

Click here to listen to this podcast episode on the First Things website. The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Jessica Hooten Wilson discusses Flannery O’Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and her book Giving the Devil His Due.

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 27, 2020

Talks & Lectures

University of Dallas Invited Speaker, Cowan Center (February 2020)

What’s So Funny ‘bout Patricide, Demons, and Suffering?: The Comically Terrible in O'Connor and Dostoevsky A lecture by Jessica Hooten Wilson, professor at John Brown University, author of Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the most recent…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 20, 2020

Articles & Essays

Encountering Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky was arrested, led to a platform, tied to a stake, and blindfolded before a firing squad. As his biographer Joseph Frank describes the scene: “A cart with coffins could be seen on the side, and a priest came carrying a cross, which they…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 20, 2020

Articles & Essays

All This Useless Beauty

Of the three Transcendentals (truth, goodness, beauty), beauty is the first to become suspect, the first to get called out as useless, the first to be subjectivized. What is the point of enrolling in an art-photography class other than to indulge your own self-expression, or,…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 21, 2020

Articles & Essays

Santa Is Real, But He’s Dead (to the World)

When my daughter’s preschool teacher asked to make an appointment with me, I assumed perhaps my three-year-old had poked a hole in her classmates’ fantasy: Did she tell them that there is no Santa Claus?! The situation was much more egregious, her teacher informed me.…

Jessica Hooten WilsonDecember 17, 2019

Jessica Hooten Wilson

From a Consumerist Death, Deliver Us O Lord

From a Consumerist Death, Deliver Us O Lord

Poetry with the Power to Rescue Us

A Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Asks: Has It Happened at Last?

Bringing forth Lazarus from a blank canvas

First Things Podcast Interview by Mark Bauerlein on Incarnational Realism

University of Dallas Invited Speaker, Cowan Center (February 2020)

Encountering Dostoevsky

All This Useless Beauty

Santa Is Real, But He’s Dead (to the World)

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