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1 week ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
I know, it’s Monday! I don’t usually send anything out on a Monday. But today I’m writing with a crowdsourcing reflection/request. A little over a year ago, I wrote an exhortation that we read beautiful books to children for Ecstatic, the weekend edition of Ekstasis magazine. My argument, in part, was:We sometimes forget this, living in our pressure-cooker industrial-paced world, but we all, as human beings, have been created to crave and love beauty.
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1 week ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
Endings are difficult. Currentconcluded publication a week ago, so I have caught myself wondering several times this past week if I am forgetting to do something. No, it doesn’t seem that I am. It’s just that one significant responsibility has ended. I have started another editorial position, and I’ll tell you more about it soon. But I have other news this week.
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2 weeks ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
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2 weeks ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
This was the final week of Current, a magazine that launched four years ago, and where I was privileged to serve in an editorial capacity for the past two and a half years. So very grateful to have been a small part of the vision founding editors John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller cultivated. I owe a lot to Current—professionally and intellectually. I’ve gotten to work with mentors who became dear friends too.
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3 weeks ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic has now been out for five months, and I’ve appreciated the engagement with this book. If you would like something to listen to this week, here are two new podcast interviews about it. (Also, Amazon has a really sweet deal right now on IVP ebooks, so you could snag the kindle for the price of a coffee—and not a fancy one). 1. The Gospelbound podcast from The Gospel Coalition.
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3 weeks ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
Sometimes modern technology makes life surreal in a very convenient sort of way. So it was that this Wednesday, while drinking my morning coffee, as my six-year-old was running laps around me, I was able to sign a contract for my next book project: Christian Bibliophilia. The book is due to the press on 01/01/2026 and will be in readers’ hands in winter or spring 2027 (though before then, you can read my book Christians Reading Classics, coming this November!). So what is this new book about?
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1 month ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
I’m excited to share with you the cover for my next book—official publication date is November 11, 2025! It is now available for pre-order. There are two main audiences I had in mind in writing this book:Christians in the pews today who would like to understand better the literary tradition of the Greeks and Romans—the context in which the early Christians lived, believed, read, and wrote. Teachers, parents, and students in Classical Christian schools. Okay, so what is this book about?
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1 month ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
When my kids were really little, each of them went through a phase where they adored tiny board books. We had a set of toddler-hands-sized Winnie the Pooh adventures, for instance, that the kids lovingly wore out and (in the case of one child) even partially ate (but did they taste as honey?) I was reminded of this delight with tiny books when I learned about Michael Kruger’s forthcoming book on miniature Christian codices from the early church.
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1 month ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams
In lieu of my usual Saturday morning post, this week you can read my essay on asceticism and the desert saints at The Dispatch and listen to my conversation about the essay and my work more generally with editor Michael Reneau. A taste:One morning in Egypt, sometime around AD 270, a Christian man quietly departed into the desert.
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1 month ago | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams |Jim Cullen |Robert Erle Barham
I remember the day I first read the opening lines of Vergil’s Aeneid in Latin. I was in 11th grade, and this was the first Latin poetry I got to read on my own, assigned as homework following intense preparations for this moment in class. In Latin (and in Ancient Greek), words in the sentence do not go in a designated order, the way they do in modern English. Instead, the endings of each noun and adjective tell of its role in the sentence (Subject? Direct object? Indirect object?