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Authors

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  • Mere Orthodoxy

    Forming Christians in the Church to participate in the culture for the common good.

  • Gracy Olmstead

    I am a writer, bookworm, mother, and gardener. My book is "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind." To quote C.S. Lewis, "You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

  • Kirsten Sanders

    I'm Kirsten Sanders- thinker, flitter-about, erstwhile theologian and gatherer of people to think about God.

  • Jake Meador

    Editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy, contributing editor at Plough

  • Austin Gravley

    Director of Youth for Redeemer Christian Church (Amarillo, TX). Former social media manager of The Gospel Coalition. Co-host of the What Would Jesus Tech? podcast. Writing on media ecology and Christian discipleship in American evangelicalism.

  • Paul J. Pastor

    A wildish man. Executive Editor at HarperCollins (Nelson Books). Poet, essayist, occasional critic, author of several books. “They also serve who only stand and wait.” - Milton

  • Nate Marshall

    Apologist for manual labor. Plumber by trade. Postulant to the diaconate. Seminarian at Cranmer Theological House. Chasing turds and words.

  • Lucy S. R. Austen

    Lucy S. R. Austen’s biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, spans a century and examines what makes a good life, how to reconcile materiality and spirituality, and how little control humans really have, all in less than half the length of War and Peace.

  • Nadya Williams

    Nadya Williams is Books 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).

  • Matthew Loftus

    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

  • Hayden Nesbit

    Pastor & poet. Walnut Creek PCA

  • Cameron Shaffer

    Cameron Shaffer is the Pastor of Langhorne Presbyterian Church, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the author of "Keeping Kids Christian", and a board member of the World Reformed Fellowship

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