Walker Wright

Walker Wright {[email protected]} graduated from the University of North Texas with an MBA in Strategic Management and a BBA in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. He has been published in SquareTwo and BYU Studies Quarterly. He was also a contributing author in Julie Smith’s award-winning As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture. His online writing can be found at the blogs Difficult Run, Worlds Without End, and Times and Seasons. He lives in Denton, Texas, with his wife.

“All Things Unto Me Are Spiritual”: Worship through Corporeality in Hasidism and Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

In his 2005 commencement speech, the late novelist David Foster Wallace provided an unexpectedly frank description of American adulthood for the recent graduates of Kenyon College. Listing painfully familiar annoyances associated with what he calls the “day in day out” of middle-class America—including a hilarious retelling of the common supermarket experience—Wallace urges his audience to fight against their “natural, hard-wired default setting” that tells them they are “the absolute center of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.”