Jessica Hooten Wilson, Author at Jessica Hooten Wilson

THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS DARKLY

How (and how not) to be certain of yourself. When I was a little girl, my favourite book was Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As much as I disliked cats, the Cheshire Cat defied all expectations with his wisdom. Alice is lost in the woods,…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 12, 2020

Events

Mars Hill 2020: Tolkien & Dostoevskey

The Mars Hill Forum is hosted by University Christian Fellowship—a ministry of the Christian Fellowship family of local churches in Central Kentucky—as one of a series of events aimed at reaching the University of Kentucky and surrounding area with the truth and beauty of the…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 12, 2020

Events

Everything Rises Must Converge: A Conversation on Writers, Race, and Racism

"Everything That Rises Must Converge", A Conversation On Writers, Race, and Racism Sponsored by the Social Justice Scholars and English Department of Loyola University-New Orleans. How do we think about and relate to the work of writers with controversial histories and views? Should we continue…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 10, 2020

Events

Flannery O’Connor Short Course

Short course on Flannery O’Connor with Chuck Colson Center (11/10) Listen to Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson's discussion of Flannery O’Connor on The Habit here. How Four Christians from History Confronted Cultural Chaos Speakers: Dr. Calvin Troup, Dr. Bill Brown, Derek McCoy, and Dr. Jessica Hooten…

Jessica Hooten WilsonNovember 3, 2020

Articles & Essays

Awakening from Digital Slumbers

When I was rereading Homer’s The Odyssey, I noticed a curious fault in the hero—Odysseus falls asleep at the most inopportune times. At the start of his adventures, he dozes off when the ships are in sight of Ithaca, the pilgrim’s destination. Hoping that by overexerting…

Jessica Hooten WilsonOctober 30, 2020

Events

Solzhenitsyn and American Culture Event

If you are struggling to find a middle road through this world of extreme right and left, the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn remind us of the dangers of ideology of any camp and point us instead towards polyphony and beauty. Join this webinar book launch on Oct 29…

Jessica Hooten WilsonOctober 27, 2020

Events

Why the Liberal Arts? Enduring Ideas in a Changing World

Join our Oct 29 lunch conversation at 12EST on the future of the liberal arts. This discussion is significant especially to our current culture as we become increasingly enslaved to things we don’t love without realizing it! In preparation for the discussion, watch or listen as Zena and I…

Jessica Hooten WilsonOctober 20, 2020

Articles & Essays Featured

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

Book Reviews

What Makes a Life

This is a story that begins with the end of the world. As a young man named Sam Waxworth arrives from “the provinces” to start his new up-and-coming job in New York City, he watches a long-bearded, seemingly fanatical Herman Nash proclaim that the world…

Jessica Hooten WilsonAugust 16, 2020

Articles & Essays

O’Connor and Race

In 1974, ten years after Flannery O’Connor died, Alice Walker visited O’Connor’s farm in Georgia. It was located minutes from the sharecropper shack where Walker had once lived. Walker had read O’Connor voraciously but put her stories away when she discovered other writers, whom she…

Jessica Hooten WilsonAugust 7, 2020

Jessica Hooten Wilson

THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS DARKLY

Mars Hill 2020: Tolkien & Dostoevskey

Everything Rises Must Converge: A Conversation on Writers, Race, and Racism

Flannery O’Connor Short Course

Awakening from Digital Slumbers

Solzhenitsyn and American Culture Event

Why the Liberal Arts? Enduring Ideas in a Changing World

Percy and Pence and the American Sense of Scripture

What Makes a Life

O’Connor and Race

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