In Praise of Plodders

July 25th, 2024 | 5 min read

Sometime in the mid-sixth century BC, one of the greatest empire builders of the age, king Croesus of Lydia, reportedly met the Athenian lawgiver Solon. One of the legendary Seven Sages of Greece, Solon was at the time on a self-imposed sightseeing tour abroad, and Croesus was eager to meet him and get his stamp of approval.

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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023) and Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity (IVP Academic, forthcoming October 2024). Her next book, Christians Reading Pagans is under contract at Zondervan Academic. She is Book Review Editor for Current, where she also edits The Arena blog.

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