Reintegration and Rediscovery: Jessica Walters and Pilgrimage (Forecast Ep 43)

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Poet and writing professor Jessica Walters describes her journey from a tradition that overemphasised external achievements, such as rote Bible memorisation, to a contemplative reintegration of scripture and personal involvement, faith and creativity, word and silence. One of her formative experiences was working in solitude as a medic in the forests of British Columbia. Illustrating her journey, she reads two of her poems, 'The Sunday Blues' and 'A Liturgy of the Wilderness'.

Resource: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by Marilyn McEntyre

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Jessica Walters is a writer and professor of creative writing at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada.

Jessica's other work on Foreshadow:
The Sunday Blues (Poetry, February 2023)

Josh Seligman is the founding editor of Foreshadow and a co-host of its podcast, Forecast.