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The Heron #2: Forthcoming Theology Books
On the means and ends of this column devoted to notable new and forthcoming books, see the introductory paragraphs of its first issue. This second installment will cover more ground in terms of the number of books considered but be swifter...
One Tool to Rule Them All
You’ve all heard it now a million times. Anytime anyone has the temerity to have a daring conversation about AI, or smartphones, or the internet, someone in the group can be relied upon to intone sagely, “Well you know, it’s important to re...
The Genetics of Vice
Kathryn Paige Harden. Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness. Random House, 2026. $30.00. 320 pp.
Somewhere deep inside each of us is a germ. Well, not a germ exactly. It’s more like a pi...
All the Way Home
Ian Marcus Corbin. To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World. Yale University Press, 2026. $32.50. 200 pp.
There has been much public buzz of late about Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, a story that has ho...
Remythologizing the Myths: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and the Fractures in a Secular Age
The stories a culture chooses to tell — and how it chooses to tell them — are among the more reliable indexes of what a society actually believes about the world. Often the form of retelling says as much as the substance. To that end, this...
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Forming Christians in the Church to participate in the culture for the common good.
Thinking and writing in Louisville, Kentucky.
Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center working on reproductive bioethics. Technically Human is a publication about the moral limits of reprotech & what it means to be human.
Many hats. Lecturer in Ethics and Politics. Editor of the Vital Center. Co-Author of Why Postliberalism Failed. Next book: Beyond Postliberalism.
"overly eager staff member" @americanfreedom with a bow tie, an M.Div, & some bylines | married @annakateshelt | dad x 4 | @senmikelee, @dukeu, & @uva alumnus
Editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy, contributing editor at Plough
I am a pastor to college students. I write. I share a theology and culture podcast (Mere Fidelity). I also have a book about God coming out (The Fire of Glory).
Reader, writer, historian
Pilgrim seeking the beatific vision. Writer of essays, novels, book reviews. Contributor at Mere Orthodoxy, Mockingbird, 1517, and elsewhere. Researching the English Reformation. Servant of the Secret Fire. \ud83d\udd25
Happy pastor of an ordinary church. Writing a book on Sex, Masculinity, and Virtue with Baker Books. Published in The Gospel Coalition, Mere Orthodoxy, and 9Marks.
church planter // public theology // \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8
Nadya Williams is Managing Editor at Mere Orthodoxy and Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. She is the author of three books, including Christians Reading Classics (Zondervan Academic, 2025).
Aspiring Luddite, lover of trees. Anti-robots.
Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of several books on American religion and politics, including The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship.
I teach and practice family medicine at a mission hospital in Kenya. I have an actual newsletter (a family/ministry one) you can access at http://eepurl.com/MCign
Writer and homemaker from Maryland. Author of Home Songs (Wipf and Stock, 2025).
My name is Daniel, a doctoral student in Biblical studies. Enneagram: 10 Myers-Briggs: PBJ. Coastal Elite.
⛰️ Adirondack transplant to the Midwest \ud83c\udf3e. Acquisitions Editor at Baker Books. Law & Liberty Fellow; Ciceronian Society. ✍️: First Things, Law & Liberty, Modern Age, Mere Orthodoxy, The American Mind, Ad Fontes.
IR grad student who sadly cannot mind her own business and consequently ended up in DC trying to imagine a different way to be a Christian in politics. Missing my English classes, Substack will have to do for now. Be honest, be kind.
Writer, attorney, husband, dad. Author of "Martin Luther's Theology of Antitrust" (2025).
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