Published books

What if the people who helped you survive are your family — even if they share none of your blood?
Who showed up when your biological family didn’t?
Who brought you food when you were sick, sat beside you in the hospital, gave you a place to sleep, helped you through a crisis, celebrated your victories or refused to let you face the hardest moments of your life alone?
What if we stopped calling those people “just friends”?
In Beyond Blood: Chosen Family, Liberation, and the Battle to Belong, Rev. Dr. Jason Carson Wilson argues that family is not only something we inherit. Family is something we practice.…

Against the Current: Advocating for Change in Hydrocephalus Care
by Rev. Jason Carson Wilson, M.Div.
The room is always sterile. The lights are always too bright. The doctor uses too many syllables. You do not hear half of what is said, and the half you do hear will not make sense for weeks.
Rev. Jason Carson Wilson knows that room. He has lived with hydrocephalus since he was 18 months old. He has undergone five brain surgeries. He has sat in the hospital chair as a patient, a chaplain, a son, and an advocate. Against the Current is the book he needed at 12, at 22, and at 32—the resource that refuses to flinch from the pain and refuses to pretend the system works.…

MAKESHIFT MESSIAHS: Why the American Right Keeps Creating Political Saviors By Rev. Jason Carson Wilson, M.Div.
It started with a room full of weeping teenagers.
December 2023. Phoenix, Arizona. Fifteen thousand students packed into an arena for Turning Point USA's AmericaFest. On stage, Charlie Kirk was leading what looked like a revival service. Hands raised. Eyes closed. Worship music swelling. Some students speaking in tongues.
Except they weren't worshiping God.
They were worshiping a political movement.…