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

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“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel

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For Good Mothering Advice, Skip the Mommy Blogs and Look to Christ

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Guest on Englewood Review of Books with Karen Swallow Prior and Jen Pollock Michele InterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews

Guest on Englewood Review of Books with Karen Swallow Prior and Jen Pollock Michele

This episode is all about celebrating and reading great literary works. Jen is joined by first-time guest Jessica Hooten Wilson, as well as repeat guest Karen Swallow Prior, who are both outstanding guides through the world of classic literature. They discuss the value of great…
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January 27, 2023
Totalitarianism and Literature with Michael Matheson Miller on the Moral Imagination Podcast FeaturedInterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews

Totalitarianism and Literature with Michael Matheson Miller on the Moral Imagination Podcast

In this podcast, Michael Matheson Miller and I discuss how both violence and entertainment and distraction are tools of state control. We discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, some of the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of Butterflies about…
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January 27, 2023
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
“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel Interviews

“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel

What happens when an iconic author leaves behind an unfinished work? In this insightful interview, Jessica Hooten Wilson dives deep into Flannery O’Connor’s final, incomplete novel. Jessica discusses the challenges of interpreting O’Connor’s work and the “difficult work of digging” into its themes of grace,…
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February 16, 2024