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Scholar-in-Residence Lectures

March 3 & 8, 2022 - Jessica Hooten Wilson

The Scandal of Holiness

We are very pleased to announce our Scholar-in-Residence for 2022 will be .

The following lectures will take place in the Carl Grant Events Center:

  • March 3, 2022, 4 p.m. — Why Read Literature to Be like Jesus
  • March 3, 2022, 7 p.m. — Share in His Suffering with Flannery O'Connor
  • March 8, 2022, 4 p.m. — Vita Contemplativa and Vita Activa
  • March 8, 2022, 7 p.m. — Ars Moriendi: How to Die Like Jesus

Lectures

Why Read Literature to Be like Jesus


Share in His Suffering with Flannery O'Connor

Vita Contemplativa and Vita Activa

Ars Moriendi: How to Die Like Jesus

All lectures are free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Honors Community of Union University.

About Jessica Hooten Wilson

Jessica Hooten Wilson Jessica Hooten Wilson is Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas in the Classical Education and Humanities Graduate Program. She is the author of three books: Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O'Connor and The Brothers Karamazov, which received a 2018 Christianity Today book of the year award. In 2019 she received the Hiett Prize for Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. She is co-editor of the volume Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West, a collection of essays on the legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In 2022, she will publish The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints (Brazos Press) and Learning the Good Life: From the Great Hearts and Minds that Came Before (Zondervan 2022).