All Contributors

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

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.

2 essays

Addison Del Mastro

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).

1 essay

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.

10 essays

alcohol

1 essay

Alex Fogleman

Alex Fogleman (PhD, Baylor University) is Assistant Research Professor of Theology at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, where he also serves as the Project Manager for the Global Flourishing Study. He is the author of the Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and the founding director of the Catechesis Institute in Waco, TX.

1 essay

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

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.

10 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 serves at Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario. He is a husband, a father, and a graduate of Heritage College & Seminary (MDiv). He writes at andrewnoble.substack.com and co-hosts a podcast called What Would Jesus Tech.

2 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

2 essays

Andy Hood

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

2 essays

andycrouch

2 essays

Angela Gorrell

1 essay

Anna Catherine McGraw

Anna Catherine McGraw is a 2024 graduate of Wheaton College.

1 essay

Anodos

13 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

2 essays

architecture

2 essays

Art

24 essays

arts

2 essays

Aryana Petrosky Roberts and Mark Sawyer

1 essay

ash wednesday

2 essays

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

3 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

2 essays

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.

2 essays

B. G. White

1 essay

Barton Gingerich

1 essay

batman

2 essays

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 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

113 essays

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

2 essays

Bob Stevenson

3 essays

Bob Thune

Bob Thune (MA, Reformed Theological Seminary) is founding and lead pastor of Coram Deo Church in Omaha, Nebraska, and a Council member of The Gospel Coalition. He is the author of Gospel Eldership, coauthor of The Gospel-Centered Life and The Gospel-Centered Community, and creator of the Daily Liturgy podcast. In addition to his work as a pastor and writer, he coaches and trains church leaders and helps to lead a classical Christian school.

3 essays

bodies

1 essay

body

2 essays

Bonnie Kristian

3 essays

Bonnie McKernan

1 essay

book review

1 essay

Book Reviews

328 essays

books

2 essays