Life on the Silent Planet

About the CONTRIBUTORS

Susannah Black-Roberts is a senior editor of Plough Quarterly and has written for publications including First Things, Fare Forward, Front Porch Republic, Mere Orthodoxy, and The American Conservative. She is the editor, with Anne Snyder, of Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year.

Christiana Hale teaches English and Latin at Logos School in Moscow, Idaho. She is the author of Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy.

Rhys Laverty is the Senior Managing Editor of the Davenant Press, Senior Editor of Ad Fontes, and Communications Director for the Davenant Institute. His writing has been published in The Spectator, The Critic, Plough Quarterly, Ad Fontes, Mere Orthodoxy, Theopolis, and WORLD, as well as on his Substack, The New Albion.

Louis Markos (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a professor of English and humanities at Houston Christian University. He is an authority on C. S. Lewis, apologetics, and ancient Greece and Rome and who lectures widely for classical Christian and classical charter schools and conferences, is the author of twenty-five books On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis, C. S. Lewis for Beginners, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis,and Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World.

Bethel McGrew (Ph.D, Western Michigan University) is a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in First Things, National Review, The Spectator, WORLD, and many other outlets, covering social criticism, literature, film, music, and history. Her Substack, Further Up, is one of the top paid newsletters in “Faith & Spirituality” on the platform. She has also contributed to two essay anthologies on Jordan Peterson.

Jake Meador is the Editor-in-Chief of Mere Orthodoxy. He is the author of In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World and What Are Christians For? Life Together at the End of the World. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, Christianity Today, Fare Forward, the University Bookman, Books & Culture, First Things, National Review, Front Porch Republic, and The Run of Play.

Joseph Minich (Ph.D, The University of Texas at Dallas) is a Teaching Fellow at The Davenant Institute in Landrum, South Carolina. He is the author of Enduring Divine Absence: The Challenge of Modern Atheism and Bulwarks of Unbelief: Atheism and Divine Absence in a Secular Age, the editor of several works with The Davenant Press, as well as the founding editor of Ad Fontes. He is also a host of The Pilgrim Faith Podcast.

Holly Ordway (Ph.D, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the the Word on Fire Institute, Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University, and a Subject Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. She is the author of Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages and Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography.

Colin Redemer (Ph.D candidate, University of Aberdeen) is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California, Managing Director at Beck & Stone, and Director of Education at American Reformer. He previously served as Vice President of The Davenant Institute. He has edited and modernised two volumes of Thomas Traherne’s Christian Ethics and his writing has been widely published in various outlets.

Joe Rigney (Ph.D, University of Chester) serves as Fellow of Theology at New Saint Andrews College. He is the author of seven books including Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’s Chronicles and Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God. Previously, Joe served as a professor and president of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul, and a teacher at Desiring God.

Colin Smothers (Ph.D, Southern Baptist Seminary) serves as Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. He is the author of In Your Mouth and Your Heart: A Study of Deuteronomy 30:12-14 in Paul’s Letters to the Romans in Canonical Context and Male and Female He Created Them: A Study on Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage (with Denny Burk and David Closson).

Michael Ward (Ph.D, University of St. Andrew’s) is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is the author of the award-winning and best-selling Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis and of After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis.