Nadya Williams
Nadya Williams is books editor at Mere Orthodoxy and interim director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023), Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity (IVP Academic, 2024), and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming, Zondervan Academic, 2025). Along with her husband, Dan, she gets to experience the joys, frustrations, and tribulations of homeschooling their children.
Articles by Nadya Williams
Call the Midwife: Twenty-First Century Edition
Having experienced pregnancy and childbirth with both a traditionally trained OB/GYN and with midwives, the philosophical differences are abundantly clear.
A is for Alligator
But the promise of the coming of the Messiah is that all these animals will be changed from enemies of the human race into its friends, or at least comfortable…
The Only Way is Up
It is a terrifying responsibility every single day, for a preschooler’s capacity to find ever creative ways to put herself in danger does not always match up with the parent’s…
The Cake of Many Layers: Walking a City through Time
To walk a place is to open the door to the possibility that you will grow to love it. With time, you could get to know it in an intimate…
Politics and the Petting Zoo
What if our expectations of politicians whom we mock or despise are simply unrealistic and guided by the standards of this world? The faith of some regular Americans in their…