Name: Headmaster Presents: Reading as a Spiritual Practice
Start: 2026-01-30T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-01-30T20:30:00-08:00
Location: The Bear Creek School

We invite you to join us for Headmaster Presents: Reading as a Spiritual Practice with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson. An award-winning author, professor, and speaker, Dr. Wilson is passionate about helping readers see how faith and imagination come together through great books.
In this talk, she will share how reading can be more than an intellectual pursuit—it can be a spiritual discipline that deepens our faith, shapes our character, and forms us into people of wisdom and holiness. Drawing on her recent book, Reading for the Love of God, Dr. Wilson will inspire us to approach literature not just as entertainment but as a means of encountering God’s truth and beauty.
This event will take place at the Diamond Performing Arts Center, located at the Redmond Campus Upper School building of The Bear Creek School.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and light refreshments will be served.
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Ph.D., is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University. As a professor, author, and speaker, she is passionate about helping people see how faith, literature, and the imagination work together to shape both the mind and the heart.
She is the author of several award-winning books, including The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints and Giving the Devil His Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov, which received Christianity Today’s Book of the Year in Arts & Culture. Her recent book, Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice, invites us to think of reading as a way of deepening our faith.
Dr. Wilson’s work has been recognized with numerous fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Emerging Public Intellectual Award, and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at The Trinity Forum.
Whether in the classroom, on the page, or from the stage, Dr. Wilson inspires others to read deeply, think Christianly, and allow great books to lead us toward lives of wisdom and holiness.
The Headmaster Presents lecture series aims to invite distinguished speakers to campus who will provide insights into various fields through a Christian worldview, fostering intellectual curiosity, personal responsibility, and spiritual growth.
RSVP at https://www.tbcs.org/about-us/headmaster/presents