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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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

“Like a Western Suit that Doesn’t Fit”: Shūsaku Endō, Christianity, and Japan

A newly discovered novella by Shūsaku Endō, author of “Silence,” sheds light on the author’s conflicted personal life

Labor Unions, Roman History, and the Quest for Community

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

The Ghettoization of Western Civilization in Universities

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

The Innocence of Pilate, the Guilt of Humanity

Jesus “suffered under Pontius Pilate,” but how much blame does the Roman governor of Judea really deserve?