BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Fayetteville Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Fayetteville Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6202d2c0-fb9e-41f4-8218-e56778990c60 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260727T014808Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T190000 SUMMARY:Author Talk: Jessica Hooten Wilson LOCATION:Fayetteville Public Library\nFayetteville Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Fayetteville Public Librar y;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Fayetteville Public Library:geo:36.0615332,-94 .1649741 GEO:36.0615332;-94.1649741 DESCRIPTION:Renewing your imagination in the company of literary saints.\n https://faylib.libnet.info/event/6137967 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join acclaimed professor\, author and spea ker Jessica Hooten Wilson as she discusses her latest book The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints< /em>.

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About the book:

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How do we become better people\, the best possible versions of ourselves? We know that self-help books do not seem to help us (or else we wouldn&rsquo\ ;t have to buy a new one so often). And\, no matter how hard we try to set new guidelines for our lives&mdash\;with New Year&rsquo\;s resolutions\, vision boards\, thirty-day plans&mdash\;these initiatives fail to compel u s to live differently. We are unaware of who we are\, how we have been mad e\, for what purpose\, and how change actually occurs. We settle for small goals such as frugal spending\, less yelling at the kids\, or more time i n the gym\, when we&rsquo\;ve been called to something far greater. We&rsq uo\;ve been created to become saints. \;

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Walking through class ic works of literature such as Willa Cather&rsquo\;s \;Death Comes for the Archbishop\; cult favorites like \;Kristin Lavransda tter\; popular Protestant novels such as C.S. Lewis&rsquo\;s \;That Hideous Strength\; canonically Catholic novels like \; The Diary of a Country Priest\; lesser appreciated works such as Zora Neale Hurston&rsquo\;s \;Moses\, Man of the Mountain\, and o thers\, Hooten Wilson draws from our multivalent Christian tradition to se e holiness in the diverse array of saints. The characters in these novels replace the false heroes and idols handed to us by our culture and become the holy company we need to answer faithfully the Lord&rsquo\;s call to re form us into saints ourselves. \;

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Jessica Hoo ten Wilson is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the Univer sity of Dallas. She is the author of \;Giving the Devil his Due: Flann ery O&rsquo\;Connor and The Brothers Karamazov\, which received a \;20 18 "Christianity Today" Book of the Year Award in the Culture &\; the A rts\; as well as two books on Walker Percy: The Search for Influence: Walk er Percy and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Ohio State University Press\, 2017) and Re ading Walker Percy&rsquo\;s Novels (Louisiana State University Press\, 201 8)\; most recently she co-edited Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Ru ssian Soul in the West (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2020). She has re ceived numerous fellowships\, grants\, and awards\, including a Fulbright Fellowship to the Czech Republic\, an NEH grant to study Dante in Florence in 2014\, and the Biola Center for Christian Thought sabbatical fellowshi p. In 2018 she received the Emerging Public Intellectual Award given by a coalition of North American think tanks in collaboration with the Centre f or Christian Scholarship at Redeemer University College\, and in 2019 she received the Hiett Prize in Humanities from The Dallas Institute of Humani ties and Culture.

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