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The Best of Strong Women: Reading for the Love of God with Jessica Hooten Wilson

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Reading Spiritual Formation Books Jessica Hooten Wilson

The Best of Strong Women: Reading for the Love of God with Jessica Hooten Wilson

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We’re taking a small break this summer to gear up for season six of the Strong Women podcast. During this break, we’ll be re-airing episodes we think you’ll enjoy!

Stories have a profound way of shaping us. They form our attention, affections, and our character for better or worse. That’s why reading what’s good, true, and beautiful matters—and this takes practice. Jessica Hooten Wilson returns to the podcast to help us embrace the practice of reading as a means of spiritual formation.

Show Notes

Reading for the Love of God by Jessica Hooten Wilson

The Scandal of Holiness by Jessica Hooten Wilson

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination by William F. Lynch

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study in Monastic Culture by Jean Leclerq

Kristin Lavransdatter Vol. I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton

The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor

On Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine

Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S.R. Austen

A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper

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