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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

Review of Natalie Carnes’s Motherhood: A Confession, Christianity Today (May 2020) An excerpt: Mothers today face an onslaught of mixed messages about how best to parent in the 21st century. Podcasts, blogs, and books on mommy-ing abound, but many of them indulge regularly in shallow…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 17, 2023

Book Reviews

Review of Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante’s Purgatorio

Titled "Reading Dante with a Bang" An excerpt: "It seems that anyone who translates The Divine Comedy must be a presumptuous ass of one kind or another. Yet, Sayers herself translated the fourteenth-century Italian poem because “all great works should be retranslated from time to time, lest…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 15, 2023

Book Reviews

Review of Michael Moore’s translation of The Bethrothed

Titled "A Masterpiece Novel That Should Be an Instant Classic" An excerpt: "Not knowing much about Manzoni, I was delighted to hear of his powerful conversion story in the introduction. Moore explains how this writer, having absorbed the philosophy and art of Romanticism, then turned…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 8, 2023

Interviews Podcast & 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…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

Featured Interviews Podcast & 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…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

Featured Interviews

Guest on “The Slow Work” by Sandra McCracken

Episode coming soon. Listen to the show here.

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

Talks & Lectures

Flannery O’Connor and the Call to Suffering

Let's examine Flannery O'Connor's prayer "It is hard to want to suffer. But I presume grace is necessary for the want." How does Flannery O'Connor demonstrate overcoming mediocre faith? What can we learn from her prayer life? Watch the lecture by Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 1, 2021

Interviews Podcast & Radio Interviews

The Great Books | Episode 186: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

John starts with the question: what makes Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky a great book? In this podcast we identify and talk about the big questions Dostoevsky asks in this text; "What does it mean to be a human being?," "Can we make ourselves…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 1, 2021

Interviews

Bishop Barron Presents Jessica Hooten Wilson: Conversations at the Crossroads

Watch Bishop Barron and I discuss caring for the soul through human formation. We discuss topics such as the humanities within education, Flannery O’Connor, Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and numerous other aspects of personal and societal development and integration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAK1oybyJBc Follow Bishop Barron here: Bishop Barron…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 1, 2021

Articles & Essays

The Mind of a Mother and Maker

As a teenager I began to notice that the great women writers that I loved were not mothers—Flannery O’Connor, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Austen. This was a frightening observation to a young woman who wanted to be both a mother and a writer. Thankfully, I later…

Jessica Hooten WilsonMay 18, 2021

How to Teach a Great Tradition

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

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

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

Review of Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante’s Purgatorio

Review of Michael Moore’s translation of The Bethrothed

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

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

Guest on “The Slow Work” by Sandra McCracken

Flannery O’Connor and the Call to Suffering

The Great Books | Episode 186: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bishop Barron Presents Jessica Hooten Wilson: Conversations at the Crossroads

The Mind of a Mother and Maker

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