Contributors

Amy Mantravadi

Amy Mantravadi lives in Dayton, Ohio with her husband, Jai, and their son, Thomas. She holds a B.A. in biblical literature and political science from Taylor University and received her M.A. in international security from King's College London.

13 essays

Brewer Eberly

Brewer Eberly is a third-generation family physician at the Fischer Clinic in Raleigh, NC and a McDonald Agape Fellow with the Theology, Medicine, & Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School.

11 essays

Cameron Shaffer

Cameron Shaffer (PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is the Senior Pastor of Langhorne Presbyterian Church in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, author of Keeping Kids Christian, and serves on the Board of Directors for the World Reformed Fellowship.

13 essays

Daniel K. Williams

Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of multiple books, including The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship and The Search for a Rational Faith: Reason and Belief in the History of American Christianity.

16 essays

Eddie LaRow

Eddie LaRow is an acquisitions editor with Baker Books.

7 essays

Elizabeth Stice

Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Frederick M Supper Honors College. She is the editor in chief of Orange Blossom Ordinary.

23 essays

Haley Baumeister

Haley Baumeister lives with her husband and four young children in Wisconsin. She enjoys putting the writing of others into conversation with each other—and adding commentary along the way—through her Substack newsletter, Life Considered.

2 essays

Haley Byrd Wilt

Haley Byrd Wilt is a writer, editor, and journalist based in the D.C. area. Her work has been published in Christianity Today, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, NOTUS, and CNN, among others. Her fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact.

3 essays

Hayden Nesbit

Hayden Nesbit is an associate pastor at Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church.

15 essays

Jeff Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro is a Professor of English at Grove City College and Editor-in-Chief of Front Porch Republic.

2 essays

John Ehrett

John Ehrett is a Commonwealth Fellow, and an attorney and writer in Washington D.C. His work has appeared in American Affairs, The New Atlantis, and the Claremont Review of Books. He is a graduate of Patrick Henry College, the Institute of Lutheran Theology, and Yale Law School.

10 essays

John Shelton

John Shelton is the policy director for Advancing American Freedom. He received degrees from Duke University (M.Div.) and the University of Virginia (B.A), and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Katelyn, and their children.

13 essays

Joshua Heavin

Rev. Dr. Joshua Heavin (PhD, Aberdeen) serves as Curate for Pastoral Care at Christ Church Cathedral in Plano, Texas; he is the book reviews editor for Pro Ecclesia, the journal of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology; and he is an adjunct professor in the School of Christian Thought at Houston Christian University and West Texas A&M University.

59 essays

Katelyn Walls Shelton

Katelyn Walls Shelton is a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Bioethics, Technology, and Human Flourishing Program and a 2025 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.

5 essays

Myles Werntz

Myles Werntz is the author of Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology's Revolutionary Century. He writes at Taking Off and Landing and teaches at Abilene Christian University.

14 essays

Rachel Roth Aldhizer

Rachel Roth Aldhizer writes from North Carolina. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a 2024-2025 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her reporting and opinion has been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, First Things, and others. 

8 essays

Sarah Reardon

Sarah Reardon studied at Grove City College, taught at a classical Christian school, and now lives in Maryland with her family. Her work has appeared in outlets such as First Things, Plough, and National Review. Her first collection of poetry, Home Songs, was published by Wipf and Stock in 2025.

2 essays

Wyatt Graham

Wyatt Graham is the Editor-in-Chief of TGC Canada. Follow him at www.WyattGraham.com.

5 essays

12 Days of Christmas

8 essays

A. A. Kostas

A. A. Kostas writes from Singapore. You can read his fiction, poetry, and other writing on Substack: https://waymarkers.substack.com/

1 essay

Aaron Renn

1 essay

Abbey von Gohren

Abbey von Gohren writes from Minneapolis. She is the author of the "Heart Before the Course" on Substack.

1 essay

About Mere Orthodoxy

1 essay

Adam Carrington

Adam Carrington is the Associate Professor, Archer Endowed Position in History & Political Science and Co-Director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University.

3 essays

Adam Finkney

Adam Finkney is a writer from Western New York whose work reflects on Christian tradition, memory, and lived faith. He writes from within the tensions of ordinary life and the historic Christian faith.

1 essay

Addison Del Mastro

1 essay

Adriel Sanchez

Adriel Sanchez is senior minister at North Park Presbyterian Church in San Diego and the host of the Core Christianity podcast with Sola Media. He is the author of Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord's Prayer and has written for Christianity Today, Modern Reformation Magazine, Credo Magazine, and Tabletalk Magazine. He is the author of Why We Worship. Adriel lives with his wife and six children in Southern California.

1 essay

agatha christie

1 essay

Agnes Howard

Agnes R. Howard teaches in Christ College, the honors college at Valparaiso University. She is the author of Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human (Eerdmans, 2020) and Disoriented: Embodied Life in Strange Times (forthcoming, Cascade, 2026).

3 essays

agriculture

1 essay

Alan Fimister

1 essay

Alan Noble

O. Alan Noble (PhD, Baylor) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and author of On Getting Out of Bed, You Are Not Your Own, and Disruptive Witness. Noble has published articles at The Atlantic, The Gospel Coalition, First Things, and Christianity Today. He lives with his wife and three children in Oklahoma City.

4 essays

Alastair Herd

Alastair Herd works as a Data Engineer for a European Tech Consultancy. He is also an incoming remote student at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Michigan. He and his wife live in their hometown in the South East of England.

1 essay

Alastair Roberts

Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham University in England) writes in the areas of biblical theology and ethics, but frequently trespasses beyond these bounds. He participates in the weekly Mere Fidelity podcast and blogs at Alastair's Adversaria.

11 essays

alcohol

1 essay

Alex Fogleman

Alex Fogleman (PhD, Baylor University) is Assistant Professor of Theology at Trinity Anglican Seminary. He is the author of Making Disciples, and currently writing a book on the theology of spiritual formation.

2 essays

Alex Kneen

Alex Kneen spins poems and songs from images she finds tucked within the pages of biblical narratives. She holds a masters degree in theological studies from Nashotah House Theological Seminary. She enjoys reading theology and philosophy, finding truth far more beautiful than the most sublime meter and rhyme could ever capture. She lives with her husband and three children in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.

2 essays

Alex R. Wendel

2 essays

Alex Sosler

1 essay

Alex Stevens

Alex Stevens has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University, and works in Software Development. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and daughter.

1 essay

Alexander C. Thermenos

Alexander C. Thermenos works in reporting and automation for a large healthcare organization and formerly served as the assistant director of CCEF's School of Biblical Counseling. He earned his Master of Arts in Counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary, and his work has has appeared in the Journal of Biblical Counseling. He is also a counselor with Heart Song Counseling.

1 essay

Alexi Sargeant

1 essay

Ali Kjergaard

5 essays

allegory

1 essay

Allen D. Hertzke

Allen D. Hertzke is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Oklahoma. He is author or editor of ten books, including Freeing God’s Children and The Future of Religious Freedom. He served a ten-year term on the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican.

1 essay

Amanda McCrina

Amanda McCrina writes historical fiction about Poland and Ukraine during World War II and the Cold War, inspired by her own family’s heritage. Her latest is I’ll Tell You No Lies (FSG, 2023). She lives outside Nashville, Tennessee.

1 essay

Amber Bowen

1 essay

America 250

5 essays

Amy Fischer

1 essay

Amy Hall

Amy lives in Arkansas with her husband and three children. When she is not homeschooling, she attempts to write in the margins of life.

1 essay

Amy Mantravadi

Amy Mantravadi lives in Dayton, Ohio with her husband, Jai, and their son, Thomas. She holds a B.A. in biblical literature and political science from Taylor University and received her M.A. in international security from King's College London.

13 essays

Amy Nelson Burnett

1 essay

Ana Siljak

Ana Siljak is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center at the University of Florida. Her current research and publications focus on Russian philosophy and religious thought. She is currently writing a book on the personalist philosophy of Nikolai Berdiaev and editing a translation of the correspondence between Nikolai Berdiaev and Jacques Maritain (forthcoming from McGill-Queen’s University Press).

6 essays

analytic philosophy

1 essay

Andrew Arndt

Andrew Arndt is the lead pastor at New Life Church East Campus in Colorado Springs, CO and cohost of the Essential Church podcast.

10 essays

Andrew Barber

3 essays

Andrew Beer

1 essay

Andrew Bertodatti

1 essay

Andrew Bertodatti and Rasool Berry

1 essay

Andrew Hubbard

2 essays

Andrew Kaufmann

Andrew Kaufmann is an Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Bryan College in Dayton, TN. His main interests are in Christian political thought and how Christians should engage the public square. His expertise is in the history of political theory, specifically the political and religious thought of French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

2 essays

Andrew Koperski

4 essays

Andrew Menkis

Andrew Menkis (BA, philosophy and classics, University of Maryland; MA, historical theology, Westminster Seminary California) is a high school Bible teacher passionate about teaching the deep things of God in ways that are understandable and accessible to all followers of Christ.

1 essay

Andrew Noble

Andrew Noble is a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham. He is an elder at Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario and teaches Technology and the Christian Life at Heritage College and Seminary. He writes at andrewnoble.net and co-hosts a podcast called What Would Jesus Tech.

3 essays

Andrew Selby

44 essays

Andrew Spencer

2 essays

Andrew Walker

Andrew T. Walker is an Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

76 essays

andrewosenga

1 essay

Andy Hood

Andy Hood is an Anglican ordinand at Cranmer Hall, Durham.

2 essays

andycrouch

1 essay

Angela Gorrell

1 essay

Anna Catherine McGraw

Anna Catherine McGraw is a 2024 graduate of Wheaton College.

2 essays

Anna Heetderks

Anna Heetderks lives in Washington, D.C. and works for an organization focused on building state capacity. She is also an editor at Fare Forward.

1 essay

Annie Crawford

Annie Crawford is a cultural apologist and classical educator with a Master of Arts in Cultural Apologetics from Houston Christian University. She is the Director for the Certificate in C.S. Lewis Studies at the Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies, and her work on story, symbolism, and education has appeared at The Blyth Institute, The Consortium Journal, Salvo, An Unexpected Journal, The Symbolic World, and Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal.

1 essay

Anodos

12 essays

Anthony Barr

2 essays

Anthony Bradley

2 essays

Anthony Scholle

Anthony Scholle is a contributing writer at the Savage Collective.

1 essay

Anthropology

63 essays

archaeology

1 essay

architecture

1 essay

Art

15 essays

arts

1 essay

Aryana Petrosky Roberts and Mark Sawyer

1 essay

ash wednesday

1 essay

Ashley Anthony

Ashley Anthony is an associate instructor of English, seminary student, and active member of College Church in Wheaton, IL. She is wife to Matt and mom to Ellie, Levi, Evelyn, and Oliver. You can find more of her writing at For the Church, Gospel-Centered Discipleship, and other online publications.

1 essay

Ashley Hales

Ashley Hales holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Edinburgh and is Director of Storytelling with the Denver Institute, co-founder of the Willowbrae Institute, and author of several books.

4 essays

Aston Fearon

Aston Fearon lives in the Midlands, UK with his wife. With a particular focus on public theology, he thinks and writes about theology and culture.

1 essay

atheism

1 essay

atomization

1 essay

attributes of God

1 essay

Austin Gohn

1 essay

Austin Gravley

Austin Gravley is the Director of Youth Ministry for Redeemer Christian Church (Amarillo, TX). He is the former Social Media Manager of The Gospel Coalition and the Executive Producer of Mending Division Academy for American Values Coalition. He has a M.A. in Biblical Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary. He is currently a cohost for the ‘What Would Jesus Tech?’ podcast and working on a book about Digital Babylon. Austin lives with his wife Melissa and newborn son Moses in Amarillo, TX.

3 essays

B. G. White

1 essay

Barton Gingerich

1 essay

batman

1 essay

Beatrice Scudeler

Beatrice Scudeler is a writer and journalist, whose work examines how literature and storytelling more broadly intersect with issues of religion, feminism, and motherhood. She is a featured author at Fairer Disputations, and she has also written for The Critic, First Things, Plough, and Public Discourse among others.

1 essay

beer

1 essay

beliefs set in stone

1 essay

Bella Gamboa

1 essay

Ben Christenson

3 essays

Ben Frush

Ben Frush is a hospice and palliative medicine fellow at UNC Chapel Hill and a rising McDonald Agape Fellow in Bioethics at Georgetown University.

2 essays

Ben Gibson

Ben Gibson is an attorney in Denver, Colorado, where he lives with his wife and three sons. He is a Harvey Fellow and a graduate of Wheaton College, Yale’s Divinity School, and Stanford Law School.

1 essay

Ben Graber

Ben Graber serves as a missionary with Mission to the World in Germany.

1 essay

Ben Simpson

2 essays

Benjamin Peterson

Ben Peterson is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Criminal Justice at Abilene Christian University. He is the author of Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order and has written for Comment, Law and Liberty, Public Discourse, National Affairs, The New Atlantis, and other outlets. He and his wife Amber live in Oklahoma City.

2 essays

Benjamin Saunders

Benjamin B. Saunders is associate professor at Deakin Law School in Melbourne, Australia.

1 essay

Benjamin Wayman and Kent Dunnington

1 essay

Benjamin Woollard

4 essays

Bernard Howard

Bernard N. Howard is a Jewish believer in Jesus. He is originally from London and has pastored churches in Manhattan and Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of the widely used Passover resource “A Short Messianic Haggadah.” He and his wife, Betsy, have two young sons.

1 essay

Berny Belvedere

Berny Belvedere is a lecturer in philosophy and editor-in-chief of Arc Digital. He has written for the Washington Post, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and more. Follow him @bernybelvedere.

4 essays

Best of Mere Orthodoxy

1 essay

Bible

116 essays

Bill Davis

Bill Davis is professor of philosophy at Covenant College, adjunct professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.

1 essay

Bill Melone

Bill Melone gardens, teaches, and writes in Philadelphia.

8 essays

Blake Callens

Blake Callens is a software engineer and author. He writes from South Carolina. He is the author of "The Case Against Christian Nationalism."

1 essay

Blogging

39 essays

bo burnham

1 essay