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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.

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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.

Nadya WilliamsCultureBook Reviews

Mahmoud v. Taylor, Winnie the Pooh, and Why Children in Public Schools Deserve Beautiful Books

A question lingers behind the Mahmoud v Taylor decision: Why is today's children's literature so bad? And why do we keep giving bad books to kids?

Nadya WilliamsCultureGlobal

Humanity in Wartime

One of the first things we lose in wartime is our humanity. This is something we have known for centuries, and yet still we so easily forget it.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Plato Among the Tyrants: On the Making of 'The Republic'

Plato's experience in Syracuse where he sought to make a philosopher of a tyrant likely played a significant role in how he thought about 'The Republic.'

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Passing the Torch: A Conversation with Louis Markos

Louis Markos discusses classical education and the life of the mind with Nadya Williams.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Shepherd and the Duck Woman

English farmer James Rebanks needed to step outside the demands of his machine-like life to rediscover the delight of simple vocations.

Nadya WilliamsFamilySexuality

The Babies Money Can Buy

We are creating a society capable of a surprising and unprecedented level of cruelty aimed at mothers.

Nadya WilliamsTechnologyBook Reviews

All the Things We Do Not Know

The Library of Ancient Wisdom reminds us of both the limitations of our knowing and the goodness of the world, which is both worth knowing and loving.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Walking Faithfully Through Deconstruction: Interview with Ian Harber

Ian Harber's 'Walking Through Deconstruction' resituates deconstruction from a heady intellectual experience to something more felt and existential.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Translating Homer in the 21st Century

The choices one makes when translating ancient texts require more than simply knowing the languages one is working with.

Nadya WilliamsInterview

Secularist Violence in Modern History: Interview with Thomas Albert Howard

Nadya Williams spoke with historian Thomas Albert Howard on varieties of "secularism" and their relationship to violence.

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Orphics in Our Midst

Michael Horton's 'Shaman and Sage' is a thorough and persuasive account of the enduring relevance of what he calls 'Orphism' in western religious life.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyFormation

In Praise of Being Inconvenient

The person who refuses to be inconvenienced by people is a person who refuses the blessing of sacrificially giving of oneself.