Get the most recent headlines and stories from Christianity Today delivered to your inbox daily.
Nadya Williams is books editor at Mere Orthodoxy and contributing editor at Providence and Front Porch Republic. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (2023), Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic (2024), and Christians Reading Classics (Nov. 2025). She and her husband Dan have one adult son and two children still at home. They live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio. You can find her on Substack at Cultural Christians in the Early Church.
The church needs faithful sheep as much as faithful shepherds.
Review
A religion scholar’s assumptions about historical progress distort the legacy of a central Christian doctrine.
ICE agents arrested a Honduran man at his church in Georgia. As Augustine chronicled after the sack of Rome, even the Visigoths never stooped to that.
Nativity scenes show us the loving parents we all need—and remind me that my own parents estranged me over my faith.
Scripture has a clear vision for parents as stewards of our children. It’s not an instruction manual for modern parenting spats.
The “demographic cliff” will force schools to cut jobs or shut down—but how they do it matters.
Review
The theologian’s latest book, though rhetorically forbidding, yields brilliant insights on the relationship between material and spiritual things.
In a disintegrated, stressful culture, my family has found respite—and a strengthened faith—in learning together.
It’s tough to plunge into a new congregation. Here’s how to get your head above water.
Review
They likely farmed out the most physically arduous elements of composition. But they (and God) still deserve credit for the words.