How Deep Reading Forms Our Souls (with Jessica Hooten Wilson)

  How Deep Reading Forms Our Souls (with Jessica Hooten Wilson)   Host Curtis Chang and award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson, the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University, discuss the decline of deep reading and how this might impact our lives. Hooten Wilson explains the significant benefits that listeners can experience by thoughtfully re-engaging with books as a regular practice. The conversation explores how deep reading can help individuals cultivate contemplation, love their neighbors, practice humility, and other aspects of deep spiritual growth.    Bring The After Party course to your church or small group!    Listen to Songs For the After Party, get sheet music, lyrics, and prayers for your church   Donate to Redeeming Babel HERE   Follow Jessica Hooten Wilson's work   Order Jessica Hooten Wilson's latest book: Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress   Order Jessica Hooten Wilson's book: Reading for the Love of God How to Read as a Spiritual Practice   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:   The Daily Office Online   Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf    Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering by Scott A. Small   The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs