Nadya Williamsis 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 (forthcoming, Zondervan Academic 2025). She is Books Editor for Mere Orthodoxy. She is also a Contributing Editor to Providence and holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University. You can find her on Twitter @NadyaWilliams81
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
Nadya WilliamsApril 29, 2025
A newly discovered novella by Shūsaku Endō, author of “Silence,” sheds light on the author’s conflicted personal life
Nadya WilliamsMarch 31, 2025
While organized labor may seem to be a distinctively modern phenomenon, recent scholarship points to the historical prevalence of such associations across the ancient Mediterranean, from Rome to Egypt
Nadya WilliamsFebruary 24, 2025
As schools like UNC found centers devoted to perspectives other than the left-wing views that dominate universities, the need for such viewpoint diversity is more apparent than ever
Nadya WilliamsFebruary 4, 2025
Jesus “suffered under Pontius Pilate,” but how much blame does the Roman governor of Judea really deserve?
Nadya WilliamsNovember 7, 2024
On October 7th, 2024, we remember the latest episodes in the long history of violence against the Jewish people, and the continuing efforts by antisemites to deny their suffering
Nadya WilliamsOctober 7, 2024
Natalie Lampert’s new book on the rise of egg freezing reveals the family unfriendly culture that increasingly permeates America
Nadya WilliamsSeptember 16, 2024
Christians today are understandably concerned about an increasingly hostile culture, but we should recall the early church’s response to the Roman Empire’s even more hostile culture
Nadya WilliamsAugust 29, 2024
Democracy requires a broadly disseminated literary tradition through which to transmit the culture that sustains a civilization
Nadya WilliamsJune 6, 2024
Review of Monica Swanson’s “Becoming Homeschoolers”
Nadya WilliamsMay 8, 2024