Jessica Hooten Wilson, Author at Jessica Hooten Wilson

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

Articles & Essays

C.S. Lewis’s Mixed Bag of Tangents and Asides

C.S. Lewis’s Surprised by Joy is one of the great spiritual autobiographies of the 20th century. Lewis wrote it to satisfy those who questioned “how passed from Atheism to Christianity.” Yet, many who picked up the narrative were frustrated at how little attention Lewis paid to argument. Readers…

Jessica Hooten WilsonOctober 28, 2019

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Featured in Washington Examiner Article on Flannery O’Connor

Read "Flannery O’Connor knows you can't handle the truth" by Madeline Fry on the Washington Examiner here.

Jessica Hooten WilsonOctober 24, 2019

Articles & Essays

A New Collection of Letters Feeds the Hunger for More Flannery O’Connor

When we find something beautiful or true or too good to be forgotten, we desire more, to fill our pockets to overflowing and our hearts to the breaking point. Readers flock to the bookstore and pre-order with impatience the latest from a beloved author. Harper…

Jessica Hooten WilsonOctober 24, 2019

Articles & Essays

What To Do If School Bores You Out of Your Mind

I had eighty-two absences my senior year of high school—true story. Not that I stayed home and committed misdemeanors. Rather, I read books by myself in my parents’ quiet living room. I studied European history and researched the nearest school proctoring an Advanced Placement exam…

Jessica Hooten WilsonOctober 15, 2019

Articles & Essays

Protestant Fiction Needs the Catholic Imagination

The titles lining the shelves labeled “fiction” in your typical evangelical bookstore will not be sold in a hundred years. Those novels will never be taught in a college classroom as literature, and they will never transform anyone’s heart, mind, or soul. Rather, those books…

Jessica Hooten WilsonSeptember 16, 2019

Interviews Podcast & Radio Interviews

The Habit Podcast with Jonathan Rogers Episode 14

Listen to this episode on Omny Studio here. Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of English at John Brown University, is currently preparing the unfinished manuscript of Flannery O'Connor's last novel for publication. In this episode, Jonathan and Jessica geek out about Flannery O'Connor, exchange…

Jessica Hooten WilsonAugust 26, 2019

Articles & Essays

10 Books You Need To Read Before You Graduate College

“If you don’t read good books, you will read bad ones,” C. S. Lewis writes. We may need to update Lewis’s claim for the twenty-first-century reader, for those who do not read good books will not necessarily read bad ones, but may—in not knowing why or…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 23, 2019

Articles & Essays

Why Christians Need a Poetic Imagination

“Whoever has ears let him hear,” Jesus says. But what if God is speaking a language that’s imperceptible to us, and what if we have made ourselves deaf to his voice? It’s frightening to imagine that we’d be unable to understand God speaking to us.…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJune 21, 2019

Articles & Essays

The Devil Lives in the Mirror

Demonic lies hide as truth. They also lurk close to home. I stood before the dazed librarian as she scanned each questionable title: The Death of Satan, I See Satan Fall Like Lighting, By Authors Possessed, the books about demons piling up before her. I remember my…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJune 20, 2019

Jessica Hooten Wilson

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

C.S. Lewis’s Mixed Bag of Tangents and Asides

Featured in Washington Examiner Article on Flannery O’Connor

A New Collection of Letters Feeds the Hunger for More Flannery O’Connor

What To Do If School Bores You Out of Your Mind

Protestant Fiction Needs the Catholic Imagination

The Habit Podcast with Jonathan Rogers Episode 14

10 Books You Need To Read Before You Graduate College

Why Christians Need a Poetic Imagination

The Devil Lives in the Mirror

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