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
The myth that the early church destroyed countless classic texts from the Greco-Roman world couldn’t be further from the truth
Nadya WilliamsDecember 3, 2025
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.
Nadya WilliamsOctober 1, 2025
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
Nadya WilliamsSeptember 8, 2025
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
Nadya WilliamsJuly 31, 2025
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
Nadya WilliamsJuly 2, 2025
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