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#  Julie Ooms

 

 

 

 ![]() Julie Ooms (PhD, Baylor University) is Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, MO. where she teaches American and world literature, composition, and Honors courses. She has published journal articles on, among others, Sylvia Plath, J. D. Salinger, the television show *Severance*, and Dante's *Divine Comedy,* and is co-author of *Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age.*

 

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## Articles by Julie Ooms

  [     ![](https://d3evso2dxyohou.cloudfront.net/generalUploads/iat-colabor-garden.jpg?mode=crop&pos=center-center&w=56&h=33&f=webp&c=bd4d8786&v=f5ac4d0bd219fa067ef3673700d09f77f63e0561d93c3f876040760de0085cc4)   Essays 

 Jul 28, 2026 

### Co-Laboring in the Garden

 By Julie Ooms and Rachel Roberts

We are not called to live and work in isolation. How might a renewed spirit of collaboration transform the way we work and more fully express God’s vision for community and human flourishing?

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