Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (2023), Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity (2024), and Christians Reading Pagans (2025). She is Books Editor for Mere Orthodoxy and Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. She is also a Contributing Editor to Providence and holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University. You can find her on Twitter @NadyaWilliams81

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O Homer, Where Art Thou?: Review of “Son of Nobody” by Yann Martel

A new novel explores the implacable quest for glory embodied by the heroes of ancient Greece, reflected in a contemporary classicist desperate for his own share of immortality

Ep. 106 | Why Christians Should Be Liberally Educated

Why should Christians care about a classical, liberal arts education? Managing Editor James Diddams & Nadya Williams discuss on the latest Provcast

Four Years of War in Ukraine

A newly released documentary “2000 Meters to Andriivka” about Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive displays the senseless brutality of Russia’s invasion, where the scale of destruction is so immense as to deny either side any meaningful victory

The Conservative Christian Literary Ecosystem

Could there be something about belief in God that leads Christians to cultivate a distinctive literary culture, even as most Americans read less and less?

The Myth of Christendom Destroying the Greco-Roman Classics

The myth that the early church destroyed countless classic texts from the Greco-Roman world couldn’t be further from the truth

Priests of History: How Christians Should View the Past in a Secular Age 

Christians should consider themselves “priests of history,” as people living in our own time time, but connected to other Christians and the church across time.

To Read Is Human

Without the libraries of mind necessary to sustain deep thought, built up over a lifetime of reading, we will never be able to stretch beyond our finitude to a properly-ordered understanding of God and man

Why We Must Fight the Demise of the Essay

Without the widespread ability to cogently express important ideas, none of the most important leaders of the last few hundred years would ever have been so influential

Christopher Lasch, Plain Writing, and Democracy

Social critic Christopher Lasch was emphatic that the inability of Americans to express themselves simply and clearly through writing was indicative of major civilizational decline, and the problem has only gotten worse

Optimizing Children is Nothing New

The advent of technologies allowing parents to select embryos with superior genetics is just the latest step down the road to the total commodification of life