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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (forthcoming Nov. 2023 from Zondervan Academic). Her next book, Priceless, is under contract with IVP Academic. She is Book Review Editor for Current, where she also edits The Arena blog.

The pumpkinification of autumn: recipes edition

Nadya Williams   |  September 22, 2023

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the pumpkinification of autumn—this annual season, peculiar to the United States, that lasts precisely from midnight on September 1st to approximately sunset on Thanksgiving Day, and that requires pumpkin (or, at least,...

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FORUM: What Does Higher Education Need Now? Part Two

Nadya Williams   |  September 21, 2023

This is one crisis that must not go to waste

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The tale of two colleges

Nadya Williams   |  September 21, 2023

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. I would like to tell here the tale of two colleges or universities—really, the tale of two types of college right now, but we are going to go...

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Utilitarianism, higher education, and pricing human life

Nadya Williams   |  September 19, 2023

Recently, my eight-year-old son has become mildly obsessed with the nineteenth-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Inspiring my son to write his own illustrated last will and testament, upon his death Bentham bequeathed his body to science, requesting that following a...

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A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup

Nadya Williams   |  September 16, 2023

Many unicorns in one civilized place form a blessing for your Saturday. Here is this week’s herd, corralled all together: *** Louise Perry’s latest for First Things, “We Are Repaganizing,” is the most important thing I read this week. A...

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The Rustling Ones

Nadya Williams   |  September 13, 2023

Hannah Szenes helps us hear the sounds of a still, small voice

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A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup

Nadya Williams   |  September 9, 2023

One unicorn may just be a figment of your imagination: did you even see it? But many unicorns put together form a blessing. *** Let’s start with a news story that my children, who have been digging up the backyard...

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The pumpkinification of autumn

Nadya Williams   |  September 8, 2023

‘Tis the season of pumpkin spice and everything nice. At midnight on September 1st, it happened again, just as it does every year in recent memory: the pumpkinification of autumn. The term is one, I should note, that existed already...

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A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup

Nadya Williams   |  September 1, 2023

Many geese form a gaggle, many rabbits form a fluffle, and a group of unicorns forms a blessing. As we gear up for the long weekend, here are this week’s unusual unicorn-worthy reads, coming to you on a Friday instead...

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Reflections on Russell Moore’s Losing Our Religion

Nadya Williams   |  August 29, 2023

If you have spent any time in evangelical circles, Russell Moore requires no introduction. A former professor and dean at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he was for eight years the President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious...

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A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup

Nadya Williams   |  August 26, 2023

This roundup concept was dubbed a unicorn at first, because it seemed to be a mythical beast, to be seen in the wild just once and never again. But here’s roundup #4, so perhaps it’s here to stay, at least...

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Killing the humanities at WVU: déjà vu all over again

Nadya Williams   |  August 22, 2023

When colleges dismantle the humanities, everyone suffers. The past several years have seen the dismantling of the humanities and the liberal arts in many a university and college in the U.S., including my now former employer, a regional comprehensive state...

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A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup

Nadya Williams   |  August 19, 2023

Tim Larsen offered an important bit of unicorn-related trivia in a comment last week: a group of unicorns is called a blessing. This is the third unicorn roundup of eclectic reads from this week. But is it a blessing? ***...

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Unicorn returns to the Arena: this week’s roundup

Nadya Williams   |  August 12, 2023

Is it still a unicorn if seen twice? No matter. Here is an utterly subjective list of some quirky and interesting reads this week. *** We begin in the land of all things pink, as Current ran its two-day forum...

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My minimalist month

Nadya Williams   |  August 8, 2023

There’s a challenge out there: you wear the same dress for one hundred days straight. The idea is to inspire creativity: look what you can do to make the same dress look different day after day (bonus: some who have...

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Unicorn at the Arena

Nadya Williams   |  August 5, 2023

It’s a never-before-seen mythical beast: an eclectic links roundup of the week here at the Arena. This makes it a unicorn. Will I ever get organized enough on another Friday night to do this again? Unclear. But for this week...

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Orphaned Socks

Nadya Williams   |  August 3, 2023

The revelatory power of hoards—both ancient and modern

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The future of evangelical scholars (and their scholarship too)

Nadya Williams   |  August 1, 2023

A year ago, a welcome second edition appeared of that most articulate of jeremiads (as it has been frequently dubbed) about the state of the evangelical mind and (related) evangelical scholarship: Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. The...

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The Baptist President you (probably) never knew was a Baptist

Nadya Williams   |  July 25, 2023

Years ago, a former colleague of mine and Dan’s at the University of West Georgia said something nice about President Warren Harding in a lecture that inspired students and colleagues to troll him for years thereafter. A President Harding bobblehead...

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Bret Devereaux on Sparta in Foreign Policy

Nadya Williams   |  July 24, 2023

Ancient military historian Bret Devereaux has a piece on modern fascination with Sparta in Foreign Policy that is very well worth reading. Ancient historians have argued for a while, indeed, that idealizing Sparta is bad history, but in this essay,...

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