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Jessica Hooten WilsonMay 1, 2019
Listen to this podcast episode on CiRCE Institute Podcast Network In this episode David chats with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, author of Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoesvsky, and the Search for Influence (among other books),about Dostoevsky's gambling problem and the impact that it had on his life…
Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 22, 2019
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Jessica Hooten WilsonApril 16, 2019
When you read old books, you’re blessed with a vision from outside your own time and place. Most of us cannot see the assumptions, stemming from our particularities, that blind us and distort how we view reality. When C. S. Lewis wrote an introduction to an old…
Jessica Hooten WilsonMarch 22, 2019
When I question students at my Christian college about how their faith affects their learning practices, they stare blankly at me or scribble a note about being motivated by the true, good, and beautiful. But studying (and education) for Christians should look different than a…
Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 1, 2019
Reading fiction is useless. So is poetry. All imaginative works of beauty are useless, and praise God for that. Stories and poems are meant to be enjoyed in and of themselves, and while they have transformative effects on their readers, heaven forbid they be used as such.…
Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 25, 2019
Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson of John Brown University discusses her work and experiences as a teacher and writer. She shares a little about her books and reflects on a couple literary passages she finds especially meaningful.
Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 17, 2019
Read or listen to this interview at the Biola University Center for Christian Thought website. “I’m a Protestant who loves saints,” says Jessica Hooten Wilson. Why do we read and write saints’ lives? Hagiography is a long-practiced depiction of the holy and often wacky stories…
Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 11, 2019
Why have so many modern novelists and poets chased after (and fled from) God? The metaphors we use in given situations show us more about our assumptions than we often realize. In politics, we speak of the “arena,” our “opponents,” or even “battle lines.” Our…
Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 10, 2019
“Why read Russian literature?” It was the kind of question that a professor longs for, and the student asked it with genuine interest. In an age when we scan articles in minutes and read more tweets than books, the question is fair. Russian novels are…
Jessica Hooten WilsonDecember 13, 2018
