Featured Archives - Jessica Hooten Wilson

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…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 11, 2025

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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…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

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Guest on “The Slow Work” by Sandra McCracken

Episode coming soon. Listen to the show here.

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

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Thinking Outside the Box with Andy Crouch

If you wonder about the importance of the humanities in Christian Higher Education, watch this conversation between Andy Crouch and I. Andy and I discussed ways we might innovate to increase the love of liberal arts from children to adults. It doesn't really matter if…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 7, 2022

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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

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Percy and Pence and the American Sense of Scripture

When Vice President Mike Pence delivered his speech at the Republican National Convention, it was like witnessing a Walker Percy satire. Pence remixed Hebrews 12:1-2 and 2 Corinthians 3:17, by replacing “Jesus” with “Old Glory,” the “saints” with “this land of heroes,” and even interjected…

Jessica Hooten WilsonSeptember 1, 2020

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The Night My Friend Confessed Her Sins Over the Phone

The Night My Friend Confessed Her Sins Over the Phone She told me that she wanted to be holyBut everything she saidSounded like she wanted to be happy.And I wanted to cryAnd shout out the difference.But I couldn’t find the syllablesAnd put them in the…

Jessica Hooten WilsonAugust 7, 2020

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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 WilsonAugust 1, 2020