Nadya Williams

Author Archive

  • Dec 10, 2025
    Sometime in the 11th century AD, in the monastery of Monte Cassino, 80 miles southeast of Rome, a monk carefully and diligently copied from an unknown original a manuscript of a...
  • Nov 24, 2025
    I’ve never been to Port William, Kentucky. It is, after all, fictional. And yet, I feel like I know its streets and their one-time inhabitants so well that I may recognize...
  • Nov 20, 2025
    One recent morning after breakfast, I straightened a couch cushion in the living room only to feel something sticky underneath. It was an orange bear-shaped vitamin, fully intact and...
  • Sep 9, 2025
    A few years ago, a beloved elderly member of our church was going through a health crisis. His decades-long hearing loss had exacerbated to the point that even hearing aids could no...
  • Aug 1, 2025
    In January of 2021, it was announced that the SAT would permanently shed its essay section. Of course, it had been optional since 2016, and so perhaps that final nail in the...
  • Jul 3, 2025
    In 1980, an academic historian turned social critic won the National Book Award with his New York Times bestselling book, The Culture of Narcissism. The success of the book came as a...
  • Apr 2, 2025
    Is Christianity an exclusively Western faith? In his most famous novel Silence, published in 1966 and adapted by Martin Scorsese in 2016, Japanese Catholic writer Shūsaku Endō...
  • Mar 24, 2025
    Over the past few years, I have seen a number of debates and research studies critically evaluating the different mediums in which people consume books in the twenty-first century:...
  • Feb 26, 2025
    Though the concept of organized labor may seem distinctively modern, what we today might call a workers’ strike has precedent in the early Roman Republic according to historian...
  • Feb 5, 2025
    In December, Inside Higher Education published a profile of the new School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The...