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About James Watson, Ph.D.
James Watson, Ph.D., is Director of the Song Nai Rhee Honors Program at Bushnell University in Eugene, Oregon. He has published on Cormac McCarthy, Hemingway, and Derrida, and is the author of the novel A Window On the Door (Green Gate Press, 2015). Otherwise, he relishes every moment with his wife Meghan, five sons, animals, and old motorcycle on their farm in the hills.
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In the darkness, a home: Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic center

June 24, 2023 James Watson, Ph.D. 8

Years ago, in the midst of a doctoral program, as my wife and I were expecting our third son, I took a seminar devoted entirely to the novels of Cormac McCarthy. The Road (2006) had […]

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“To stake one’s life for the truth”: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ in a narcissistic age

March 13, 2018 James Watson, Ph.D. 8

Disney’s film is nothing like Madeleine L’Engle’s strange and startling novel, a book that fleshes out the radically others-centric love inaugurated in Christianity’s revolutionary command […]

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From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 9 July 2013 (VIS) – On the afternoon of Saturday 6 July in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall the Pope met with seminarians, novices and young people discerning their […]

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