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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023), Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity (forthcoming, IVP Academic, 2024), and Christians Reading Pagans (forthcoming, Zondervan Academic, 2025). She is Managing Editor for Current, where she also edits The Arena blog, and Contributing Editor for Providence Magazine and Front Porch Republic.

One of the most encouraging books I’ve read this year: Drew Dyck, Just Show Up

Nadya Williams   |  July 25, 2024

What if the best thing we can do is just show up?

Interview with Robert Jensen: It’s Debatable

Nadya Williams and Robert Jensen   |  July 19, 2024

In his new book, It’s Debatable, Robert Jensen gives us tools to keep talking to each other–not past each other.

Shirley Mullen and the courageous middle: online Trinity Forum conversation next week

Nadya Williams   |  July 18, 2024

Next Friday (July 26), Shirley Mullen will participate in an online conversation with Trinity Forum on her new book.

Work in progress: Current’s 100 books of the 21st century (so far)

Nadya Williams   |  July 18, 2024

Current’s list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is in progress!

On classifying books

Nadya Williams   |  July 17, 2024

With books, as with other good things in life, sometimes you are just in the mood for something different.

Blessing of Unicorns: Scofield Reference Bible, education, tech Sabbaths, George MacDonald, and more!

Nadya Williams   |  July 5, 2024

The Unicorns of this week have landed!

SUMMERING: Like It’s 1989

Nadya Williams   |  July 1, 2024

Nostalgia’s inevitable allure, even amid crumbling worlds

Blessing of Unicorns: Family-friendly city, WWII and Ukraine, Bonhoeffer, summer reading, and more!

Nadya Williams   |  June 28, 2024

Building a family-friendly city, how to foster free-range kids, building a culture of life, WWII and Ukraine, Bonhoeffer, summer beach reads, education isn’t about you, 55 years of Faith and Learning seminar at Wheaton, and the fortieth anniversary of the death of Foucault!

Sign of a divided country: Israel’s military to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox

Nadya Williams   |  June 27, 2024

Israeli military is about to begin drafting the ultra-Orthodox. This is a really bad idea–and a sign of cultural division.

Compassionate college closures: an exhortation

Nadya Williams   |  June 26, 2024

Is it possible to navigate college closings ethically and compassionately?

Ethics and Public Policy Center’s encouraging report on two years after Dobbs (and some discouraging thoughts too)

Nadya Williams   |  June 24, 2024

Patrick Brown’s report on states and family-friendly policies two years after Dobbs is a must-read.

Blessing of Unicorns: Fairy tales, books, exvangelicals, summer, and Roman warfare

Nadya Williams   |  June 21, 2024

Blessing of Unicorns: Featuring fairy tales with the gory bits left in, books, exvangelicals, summer, and Roman battle scenes in movies.

Interview: Joshua Kinlaw on the classics and classical education

Nadya Williams and Joshua Kinlaw   |  June 20, 2024

Classical Education’s best motto: “Let the kids read!”

The quiet death of an academic Classics journal

Nadya Williams   |  June 11, 2024

What does the death of Ramus mean for publishing in the humanities?

Blessing of Unicorns: A Tudor Castle, reading Ukrainian and Classical literature, the intact mind, and Mary Cassatt at work

Nadya Williams   |  June 7, 2024

This week’s unicorns: A Tudor Castle lost and found, reading Ukrainian and Classical literature, deep reading, the intact mind, and Mary Cassatt at work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Blessing of Unicorns: Summer Dreaming

Nadya Williams   |  May 31, 2024

What do unicorns do in the summer?

WSJ on the global fertility crash (and Martha Nussbaum’s approval)

Nadya Williams   |  May 23, 2024

Resolving the global fertility crash will only happen with a culture change.

Jake Meador on “The PCA We Could Have”

Nadya Williams   |  May 22, 2024

Mere Orthodoxy’s Jake Meador reflects on the PCA, divisions, and THAT panel.

Jake Wallis Simons for The Telegraph: “The case against Israel has just collapsed”

Nadya Williams   |  May 20, 2024

Hamas has been the source of estimates of casualties in Gaza in the war so far. They lied.

One great Unicorn for your weekend: Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton!

Nadya Williams   |  May 17, 2024

Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton’s graduation this spring is magnificent.

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