What happens to the church when the people of the book no longer choose to read? We ignore this question at our own peril.
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University. Her most recent book is Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. She is a senior fellow of the Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C.
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Review: Julia Alvarez riffs on ‘Arabian Nights’
‘The Cemetery of Untold Stories’ reads like a novel made up of all the stories that Julia Alvarez no longer wants to carry in bits and pieces in her head,. And Alvarez knows that we all are—and need to be—story creatures.
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What ‘The Lord of the Rings’ can teach us about U.S. politics, Christianity and power
Tolkien’s fiction reminds us that power cannot be controlled; it enslaves you. To act freely is to acknowledge your limits, to see the journey as a long road that includes dozens of future elections, and to fight against the temptation for power.