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Dominic A. Aquila
Dominic Aquila is Professor of History at the University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas), where he also served as Provost from 2008 to 2017. Christopher Lasch directed Aquila’s dissertation until…
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Fidel A. Arnecillo, Jr.
Fidel A. Arnecillo, Jr. is a church planter for the Evangelical Covenant Church, and lead pastor of Symposia Covenant Church. He is also philosophy instructor at California State University.
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Lucy S R Austen
Lucy S. R. Austen is a writer and editor who has spent over a decade studying source materials on Elisabeth Elliot. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her…
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Vincent Bacote
Vincent Bacote is Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College (IL). His most recent book is Reckoning with Race and Performing the…
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Randall Balmer
Randall Balmer is the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College and the author of Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right (Eerdmans).
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AntĂłn Barba-Kay
AntĂłn Barba-Kay is Robert B. Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College and the author of A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation, forthcoming from…
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Robert Erle Barham
Robert Erle Barham is Associate Professor of English at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA.
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Susan McWilliams Barndt
Susan McWilliams Barndt is Professor of Politics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She has authored and edited numerous books including A Political Companion to James Baldwin (2017) and The…
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Amy Bass
Amy Bass, Ph.D. is Professor of Sport Studies and Chair of the Division of Social Science and Communication at Manhattanville College. She is the author of several titles, most recently…
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Christina Bieber Lake
Christina Bieber Lake is author of Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. She is a Contributing Editor for Current.
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Jeffrey Bilbro
Jeffrey Bilbro is an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College and Website Editor-in-Chief of Front Porch Republic. His books include Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry…
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Matthew Bowman
Matthew Bowman is associate professor of history and religion and the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of a number of…
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Jon Boyd
Jon Boyd is keeper of Book Marks at Current. He is associate publisher and academic editorial director at InterVarsity Press, the saxophonist in an improvisational rock band, a user of…
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Patrick Boyle
Patrick Boyle has lived in Hiroshima since 2018 and is a staff member at Mustard Seed Christian Church, Hiroshima. He is currently compiling a collection of essays based on his…
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T. Corey Brennan
T. Corey Brennan is a professor of Classics at Rutgers University; his most recent book is The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome’s Most Dangerous Political Symbol (Oxford University Press,…
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Deanna Briody
Deanna Briody is a writer and poet who works as a business analyst at a software company in Pittsburgh.
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Lisa K. Buchanan
Lisa K. Buchanan lives in San Francisco and at http://www.lisakbuchanan.com. Notable, Best American Essays 2023; Pushcart Nomination, 2023; First Place, Short Fiction Prize, CRAFT, 2022.
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Philip D. Bunn
Philip D. Bunn is a Visiting Scholar with the Lyceum Program in the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He writes and teaches on technology, politics and literature, and…
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Una M. Cadegan
Una M. Cadegan is Professor of History at the University of Dayton and author of All Good Books Are Catholic Books: Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America (Cornell…
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Katy Carl
Katy Carl is writer in residence at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, editor in chief emerita of Dappled Things magazine, the author of As Earth Without Water and…
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Natalie Carnes
Natalie Carnes is Professor of Theology and Affiliated Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Baylor University. Her most recent book is Motherhood: A Confession.
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Benjamin L. Carp
Benjamin L. Carp teaches history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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M. Elizabeth Carter
M. Elizabeth Carter is a counselor and writer living in Alabama.
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Jay Case
Jay Case is Professor of History at Malone University in Canton, Ohio.
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Daniel Cole
Daniel Cole is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at Hofstra University.
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Vaneesa Cook
Vaneesa Cook received her PhD in US history from UW-Madison and is currently a historian at UW- Madison for the Missing in Action Project. Her book Spiritual Socialists: Religion and…
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Kody W. Cooper
Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science & Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and author of Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law…
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Elias Crim
Elias Crim is the founder of Solidarity Hall, a national blog and podcast. He is also the editor of Ownership Matters, a biweekly newsletter on the solidarity economy.
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Donald T. Critchlow
Donald T. Critchlow is Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.
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Jim Cullen
Jim Cullen teaches history at the Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich Connecticut. He is the author of twenty books, most recently Bridge & Tunnel Boys: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel,…
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Calvin Cummings
Calvin Cummings is a freelance writer and adjunct professor based in Chattanooga, TN, where he lives with his wife, Hannah, and his son, William. He received an M.A. in Creative…
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LuElla D'Amico
LuElla D’Amico is Associate Professor of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Coordinator at the University of the Incarnate Word. She is the editor of Girls’ Series Fiction and…
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Rachel Darnall
Rachel Darnall is a freelance writer and student pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies at Westminster Theological Seminary. She frequently writes about gender, authoritarianism, and Christian freedom. She lives in…
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Lisa J. DeBoer
Lisa J. DeBoer teaches the history of art at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. She is the author of The Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church (Eerdmans, 2016), which…
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David Demaree
David Demaree works in product management at a medical software company. He holds a PhD in American history and lives with his family near Pittsburgh.
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Jonathan Den Hartog
Jonathan Den Hartog is professor of history and chair of the history department at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and…
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Jacqueline Doyle
Jacqueline Doyle is professor emeritus of English at California State University, East Bay, and author of The Missing Girl. Her creative nonfiction has earned numerous Pushcart nominations and seven Notable…
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Andy Draycott
Andy Draycott is Professor of Theology at Biola University.
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Frederic S. Durbin
For over twenty years, Frederic S. Durbin has been professionally writing fiction for adults and children. His most recent novel, A Green and Ancient Light, was named a Reading List…
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Julie Durbin
Julie Durbin is Associate Professor of Humanities and Writing at Geneva College, where she directs first year English composition and the writing center. She served with Free Methodist World Missions…
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Robert Elder
Robert Elder teaches American history at Baylor University. His second book, a biography of John C. Calhoun, was published in February by Basic Books.
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Nicholas Elder
Nicholas Elder is assistant professor of New Testament at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author of Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions and The…
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Michial Farmer
Michial Farmer is the author of Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction (Camden House, 2017) and the translator of Gabriel Marcel’s Thirst (Cluny, 2021). He teaches history in Atlanta.
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Michael Feldberg
Michael Feldberg, PhD, is executive director of the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom and a resident of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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John Ferling
John Ferling taught for forty years, mostly at the University of West Georgia. His recent book, Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781, was published in 2021.…
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Ashley Fitzgerald
Ashley Fitzgerald is an environmental sociologist, researcher, teacher, wife, mother, and occasional writer. Her work has been seen in Unherd, Nature Sustainability, Front Porch Republic, The Spectator and, now, Current.…
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Robert Fleegler
Robert Fleegler is associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of two books, Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth…
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Alexandre Brasil Fonseca
Alexandre Brasil Fonseca is a sociologist and Associate Professor at the NUTES Institute for Science and Health Education at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the author of…
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Russell Arben Fox
Russell Arben Fox runs the History & Politics major and the Honors Program at Friends University, a small Christian liberal arts college in Wichita, KS, where he has lived with…
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Bradshaw Frey
Bradshaw Frey is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, PA. An earlier form of this essay was delivered as the keynote address at the 2023 Drive-In…
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Courtney J. P. Friesen
Courtney J. P. Friesen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona
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Carla Galdo
Carla Galdo has written essays and poetry for various groups and publications, including Well-Read Mom, Humanum, Dappled Things, and Modern Age. Carla earned an MTS from the John Paul II…
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Katie Gaultney
Katie Gaultney is a Dallas-based journalist, mom, and Zenger House interviewer
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Christopher Gehrz
Chris Gehrz is professor of history at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His biography of Charles Lindbergh is due out August 17th and can be preordered from the publisher…
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Perry L. Glanzer
Perry L. Glanzer is Professor of Educational Foundations at Baylor University, a Resident Scholar with the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, and Editor-in-Chief of Christian Scholar’s Review. He is…
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Alan Godwin
Alan Godwin has practiced as a psychologist in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee for over 30 years. He is the author of How to Solve Your People Problems: Dealing With…
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Philip Gorski
Philip Gorski is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University. His most recent books are American Covenant (Princeton, 2017) and American Babylon (Routledge, 2020). He is currently completing…
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Mark W. Graham
Mark W. Graham is Chair of the History Dept. at Grove City College, and the co-author of Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press). He…
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Liz Charlotte Grant
Liz Charlotte Grant has published essays in the Huffington Post, Christianity Today, the Christian Century, and U.S. Catholic, among others, and her newsletter, the Empathy List, twice earned a Webby…
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Ivana Greco
Ivana Greco is a homemaker and homeschooling mother of 3 from Connecticut. She frequently writes on issues involving family and home, including at https://thehomefront.substack.com.
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Jay Green
Jay Green is Professor of History at Covenant College. His books include Christian Historiography: Five Rival Versions and Confessing History: Explorations of Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation (edited with…
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Jane Greer
Jane Greer is a Catholic formalist poet whose recent collections include Love like a Conflagration (2020) and The World as We Know It Is Falling Away (2022), both from Lambing…
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Mark Griffin
Mark Griffin is Professor of Spanish at Oklahoma City University. He was born and raised in Mexico, where his parents served as career missionaries. He is co-author of Living on…
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Joseph K. Griffith II
Joseph K. Griffith II is the William Blackstone Professor of Law & Society at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University
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Allen C. Guelzo
Allen C. Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is the author of Abraham…
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Daniel N. Gullotta
Daniel N. Gullotta is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at Stanford University in American Religious History. Currently. He is a frequent contributor to The Bulwark, and his writings have also appeared…
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Andrew Gustafson
Andrew Gustafson is Professor of Business Ethics and Society, Heider College of Business at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska.
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John H. Haas
John H. Haas is a retired professor of history and Contributing Editor at Current.
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Scott Hancock
Scott Hancock is Professor of History and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College. Prior to that, he spent 14 years working in group homes with teenagers in crisis. He is currently…
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D. G. Hart
D. G. Hart teaches history at Hillsdale College and is the author most recently of Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant (Oxford 2021).
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David Head
David Head is associate lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida and distinguished faculty fellow in history at Kentucky Wesleyan College. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming…
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Siobhan Heekin-Canedy
Siobhan Heekin-Canedy is a freelance writer with a background in international affairs. She represented Ukraine as an elite-level ice dancer from 2008 to 2014, including at the 2014 Winter Olympics,…
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Timothy C. Hemmis
Timothy C. Hemmis is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He is the co-editor of A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created…
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Thomas Hibbs
Thomas Hibbs is J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Professor of Philosophy and Dean Emeritus at Baylor University
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Peter Hill
Peter Hill is a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Covenant College and Adjunct Instructor of National Security Law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. A retired…
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Jacob Hiserman
Jacob Hiserman is a doctoral candidate in History at The University of Alabama. He received a B.A. in History from Christendom College and an M.A. in History from Baylor University.…
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David A. Hollinger
David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former President of the Organization of American Historians and an elected…
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Agnes Howard
Agnes R. Howard teaches in Christ College, the honors college at Valparaiso University, and is author of Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human.
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Sarah Huffines
Sarah Huffines is Associate Professor of English at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia
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Daniel G. Hummel
Daniel G. Hummel is an American historian and Director of University Engagement at Upper House, a Christian study center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work can…
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Sarah Imboden
Sarah Imboden lives in upstate New York, where she served as a town councilmember for one term in 2016-19. She is active in local politics and volunteer efforts, while juggling…
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Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins is a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, where he serves in the Institute for Studies of Religion. He has published 36 sole-authored books, including most recently…
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Michael Jimenez
Michael Jimenez is associate professor of history at Vanguard University. He is the author of Remembering Lived Lives: A Historiography from the Underside of Modernity. He is currently researching the…
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Andrew Jones
Andrew Michael Jones completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Reinhardt University near Atlanta, Georgia. His research focuses…
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Molly Jones-Lewis
Molly Jones-Lewis is a historian of Roman medicine who teaches in the Ancient Studies department of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She enjoys wool-working and performing early music, and…
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Adam Jortner
Adam Jortner is the Goodwin-Philpott Professor of History at Auburn University. He is the author of The Gods of Prophetstown and Audible original series including Faith and the Founding Fathers…
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Michael Kazin
Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University and emeritus editor of Dissent. His next book, What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party will…
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David Kee
David Kee is associate professor of business at the Paul R. Carter College of Business at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. He teaches courses in management, strategy, economics and entrepreneurship…
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Rick Kennedy
Rick Kennedy is Professor of History at Point Loma Nazarene University. An intellectual and cultural historian, he has authored books and articles on the history of logic, mathematics, architecture, astronomy,…
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Shirley Kilpatrick
Shirley Kilpatrick is Professor of English and Humanities at Geneva College.
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Monica Klem
Monica Klem is an independent scholar based in Northern California. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Pepperdine University.
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Ellen Koneck
Ellen Koneck is the executive director of Commonweal. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and two sons.
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Kevin S. Krahenbuhl
Kevin S. Krahenbuhl is Associate Professor of Education and Program Director for the Assessment Learning and Student Success EdD at Middle Tennessee State University. He works with public schools to…
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Mike Kugler
Mike Kugler teaches history at Northwestern College in Orange City, IA. He is the editor/author of Into the Jungle! A Boy’s Comic Strip History of World War II (University Press…
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Evan Kutzler
Evan Kutzler is a public historian and an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University . He is the author or editor of several books, including Living by Inches:…
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Patrick Lacroix
Patrick Lacroix, Ph.D., is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith.
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Belden Lane
Belden Lane is Professor Emeritus of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. His books include The Solace of Fierce Landscapes and The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the…
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Dixie Dillon Lane
Dixie Dillon Lane is an American historian, an associate editor at Hearth & Field, and a contributing editor at Front Porch Republic. Her book, Skipping School: Finding the Roots of…
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Christopher J. Lane
Christopher J. Lane is Associate Professor of History at Christendom College (Front Royal, VA) and the author of Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Cultural in Early Modern…
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Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is Professor of History at Syracuse University and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She is the author of…
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Thomas Lecaque
Thomas Lecaque is an Associate Professor of Medieval History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. He is a frequent contributor to The Bulwark, and has also written for…
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Tony Tian-Ren Lin
Rev. Tony Tian-Ren Lin, PhD, is author of Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream (UNC Press, 2020). He is a sociologist and a Presbyterian minister living in New York…
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Charles Lipp
Charles Lipp is Professor of History at the University of West Georgia and the author of Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State: The Mahuet of Lorraine.
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Bronson Long
Bronson Long is a Professor of History at Georgia Highlands College in Rome, Georgia. He is the author of No Easy Occupation: French Control of the German Saar, 1944-1957.
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Kate Lucky
Kate Lucky is a writer living in the Bay Area. She is an editor at Christianity Today.
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Paul Luikart
Paul Luikart is the author of several short story collections , including his just-released The Realm of the Dog. He serves as an adjunct professor of fiction writing at Covenant…
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Thomas Mackaman
Thomas Mackaman is associate professor of history at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and contributes historical writing to the World Socialist Web Site. He is author of New Immigrants and…
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Elaine MacKinnon
Elaine MacKinnon is Professor of Russian and European History at the University of West Georgia. She has published numerous articles on Soviet history in various scholarly journals as well as…
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Amanda McCrina
Amanda McCrina is a Nashville-based writer of historical fiction. Her novels Traitor and The Silent Unseen explore tensions between the Ukrainian nationalist movement and the Polish government before and during…
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Madeleine McDowell
Madeleine McDowell is a historian of the nineteenth century whose research has focused on the religious, cultural, and intellectual history of the English-speaking world. She holds a PhD from the…
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Sean McGever
Sean McGever (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is an area director for Young Life in Phoenix, Arizona, and adjunct faculty at Grand Canyon University. He is the author of several books,…
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Eric Miller
Eric Miller is Professor of History and the Humanities at Geneva College, where he directs the honors program. His books include Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher…
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Ron Miller
Ron Miller is a Christian higher education executive, educator, church elder, and writer of Ron’s Reflections, addressing the current state of American Christianity and its fidelity to Christ. Ron previously…
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Abigail Wilkinson Miller
Abigail Wilkinson Miller writes from northern New York state, where she lives with her husband and sons. She holds an MTS in Moral Theology at the University of Notre Dame.…
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Christopher Miller
Christopher Miller is a senior at Trinity Christian College (Palos Heights, IL) where he is studying to receive the Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in philosophy. You can…
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Shirley Mullen
Shirley A. Mullen (PhD) is President Emerita of Houghton College and longtime history professor.
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John Murdock
John Murdock is an attorney and writer who lives in Texas. He hosts the Brass Spittoon podcast for Front Porch Republic.
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Sara Butler Nardo
Sara Nardo lives with her husband, five children, and a dairy cow in Memphis, TN. She maintains an old-school homeschool blog, The Gothic Homeschool.
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Hannah Nation
Hannah Nation is the Managing Director of the Center for House Church Theology and Content Director for China Partnership. She is an editor of the forthcoming Faith in the Wilderness: Words…
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Cassandra Maria Nelson
Cassandra Maria Nelson is an associate fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, where she writes about faith, fiction, technology, and culture. She previously taught…
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Mark Noll
Mark Noll is retired as a historian who taught at Wheaton College and the University of Notre Dame. The books mentioned in this essay continue work begun with America's God:…
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Tony Norman
Tony Norman is a columnist at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is also president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.Tonynormanwriter@gmail.com.
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David O'Hara
David O’Hara is Professor of Religion, Philosophy, Classics, and Environmental Studies at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he directs Augustana’s programs in Environmental Studies and Sustainability. He…
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Thomas O'Rourke
Thomas O’Rourke is a policy researcher and writer who studies anti-poverty policy, economic opportunity, and social mobility.Â
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William Thomas Okie
William Thomas Okie is the author of The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South and “Amber Waves of Broomsedge.” He teaches history at Kennesaw State University…
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Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky is former editor-in-chief at World magazine and is now chairman of Zenger House and an Acton Institute affiliate scholar. He writes a weekly column on homelessness for the…
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Henry Overos
Henry Overos is a PhD student at the Department of Government and Politics in the University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the role…
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Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet teaches creative writing and film at Seattle Pacific University and writes at LookingCloser.org and at Substack. His writing on film has been published in Image, Christianity Today, Paste,…
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Paul Emory Putz
Paul Emory Putz is the Assistant Director of the Faith & Sports Institute at Baylor’s Truett Theological Seminary
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John Ragosta
John Ragosta is a fellow at Virginia Humanities and author of, among other works, Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed.
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Rondall Reynoso
Rondall Reynoso is an artist, scholar, and Assistant Professor at Lee University exploring the confluence of the good, the true, and the beautiful. He is also the founder and Executive…
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Tara Robinson
Tara Robinson, a freelance writer, has worn many hats after graduating as a history major from Messiah College, including nonprofit program coordinator, behavioral therapy facilitator, Notre Dame University of Maryland…
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James Romm
James Romm is Professor of Classics at Bard College and the author of numerous books, most recently Demetrius, Sacker of Cities, a biography in Yale's Ancient Lives series. He reviews…
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Carolynn Roncaglia
Carolynn Roncaglia is Associate Professor of Classics at Santa Clara University. She is the author of Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (Johns…
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Sunny Rosen
Sunny Rosen is an MFA candidate in fiction at LSU, a copywriter and publicist for LSU Press and The Southern Review, and fiction editor for New Delta Review. Her work…
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Jeremy Sabella
Jeremy Sabella lectures at Dartmouth College and is the author of An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story.
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
Leah Libresco Sargeant is the mother of two children on earth and six in Heaven. She runs Other Feminisms, a Substack community focused on the dignity of dependence.
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Jon D. Schaff
Jon D. Schaff is Professor of Political Science at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He’s the author of Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy and…
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Mathew N. Schmalz
Mathew N. Schmalz is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Holy Cross University. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Global Catholicism and the author…
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Chad Schrock
Chad Schrock is Associate Professor of English at Lee University in Cleveland, TN, where he writes about Christianity and literature in England between 1350 and 1650.
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Mark Schwehn
Mark Schwehn is Senior Research Professor in Christ College, the honors college of Valparaiso University, and editor of the second edition of Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do…
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Brian Scoles
Brian Scoles can be found most Sundays at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has served as a pastor since 2006. He is thankful to…
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Beatrice Scudeler
Beatrice Scudeler holds an M.A. in English from Oxford University. She is a freelance writer on literature, religion, the arts, and family life.
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Karen K. Seat
Karen K. Seat is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Arizona. She is co-editor, with Elizabeth H. Flowers, of A Marginal Majority: Women, Gender, and a Reimagining…
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David John Seel Jr.
John Seel is a cultural analyst and writer living in Philadelphia. He is the former director of cultural engagement at the John Templeton Foundation. He is the author of The…
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Christopher Shannon
Christopher Shannon is associate professor of history at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He is the author of several works on U.S. cultural history and American Catholic history, including…
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Brian A. Smith
Brian A. Smith is the managing editor of Law & Liberty. He is the author of Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Lexington Books, 2017). Before joining Liberty…
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Sarah Morgan Smith
Sarah A. Morgan Smith is an independent scholar whose interests center around all the things you aren't supposed to talk about in polite society: politics, religion, and the Yankees. After…
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Jesse Smith
Jesse Smith is an incoming professor of sociology at Benedictine College. His research is focused on the intersection of family, religion, and politics in the modern United States.
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Austin T. Smith
Autin T. Smith is a doctoral candidate in the Higher Education Studies & Leadership program at Baylor University and a co-editor for Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians…
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Miles Smith IV
Miles Smith is assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College. His research interests are nineteenth-century United States and the Atlantic World.
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Edward Song
Edward Song is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA.
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Felicia Wu Song
Felicia Wu Song is Professor of Sociology at Westmont College. She is the author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age.
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Casey Spinks
Casey Spinks writes from Waco, Texas, where he is a PhD candidate in theology and teaches in religion and philosophy.'
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John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
John Stackhouse holds the Samuel J. Mikolaski Chair of Religious Studies at Crandall University in eastern Canada. His most recent books are Can I Believe? Christianity for the Hesitant and…
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Jared Stacy
Jared Stacy is a PhD Candidate in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen. He holds an M.Div from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has pastored in both New…
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Matthew Stewart
Matthew Stewart is a humanities teacher at the Ambrose School in Meridian, Idaho
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Elizabeth Stice
Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Honors Program. She is the author of Empire…
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Rachel Stone
Rachel Stone is the author of the memoir Birthing Hope and the revised 40th anniversary edition of the cookbook More-With-Less, among other writings. She teaches composition and rhetoric at a…
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Katie Stoneback
Katie Stoneback is a Writing and Spanish double major at Geneva College. She is also an editorial intern for Current.
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Tara Strauch
Tara Strauch is an Associate Professor of history at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky where she lives with her husband, AJ, and two sons. She studies religious and political ritual…
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Knox Thames
Knox Thames served in a special envoy role for religious minorities during the Obama and Trump administrations. He is writing a book on combating religious persecution. Follow him on Twitter…
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David Tucker
David Tucker is a Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center. He received his Ph.D. in history at the Claremont Graduate School. His most recent book is United States Special Operations…
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Ellen Tucker
Ellen Tucker is a writer and editor for Teaching American History, a program that provides content-based seminars and other resources for secondary school teachers of American history and government. The…
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Catherine Tumber
Catherine Tumber holds a doctorate in U.S. social and cultural history from the University of Rochester, where she studied with Christopher Lasch. Her books include a critical study of gnostic…
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Andrea Turpin
Andrea L. Turpin is Associate Professor of History at Baylor University and author of A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1817-1917 (Cornell,…
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Paul Van Allen
Paul Van Allen works in global church advocacy with Pioneers and is planting a multiethnic Anglican church in Pflugerville, Texas. You can reach him at hardbreakfast@gmail.com.
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Colleen Vasconcellos
Colleen Vasconcellos is Professor of Atlantic History at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 and the co-editor, with Jennifer…
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Heather P. Venable
Heather P. Venable is an Associate Professor of Military and Security Studies in the Department of Airpower, and the Airpower Strategy and Operations Course Director and a non-resident fellow at…
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Steven Waldman
Steven Waldman is the President and Co-Founder of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. He crafted the plan for it after authoring the Federal Communications Commission landmark…
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Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and she is the author of Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to…
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Daniel K. Williams
Daniel K. Williams is Senior Fellow and Director of Teacher Programs at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio and is the author of several books on religion and…
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Greg Williams
Greg Williams works in digital politics for a more just world. You can yell at him on X, or Threads for that matter, @gwilliamsster but he’d prefer if you were…
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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,…
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John Wilsey
John D. Wilsey is Associate Professor of Church History and Philosophy at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. His current…
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Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jessica Hooten Wilson is the inaugural Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. She is the author of several books,…
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John Wilson
John Wilson is Contributing Editor at the Englewood Review of Books and Senior Editor at the Marginalia Review of Books.
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Jim Wood
Jim Wood lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife and their five children.
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Amy Wright
Amy Wright’s book-length essay, Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round, debuted in 2021 with Sarabande Books. Prior to it, she authored three poetry books and six chapbooks.
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Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian. His books include Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt (Penn, 2016), Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food (California, 2019)…
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Pearl J. Young
Pearl J. Young is an Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Houston—Clear Lake and was recently named the Marilyn Mieszkuc Memorial Professor in Women’s Studies for 2023-2024.…
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