INTRODUCTION
About Our Contributors
Comment features the voices of a wide range of people, from writers and philosophers to practitioners and community leaders. We’re more than a magazine—we’re a movement.
Contributors to the Current Issue
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Anne Snyder
Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment magazine and oversees our partner project, Breaking Ground. She is the host of The Whole Person Revolution podcast and co-editor of Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year, published in January 2022.
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Chris Owen
Chris is the founding director of the S1 Project. The aim of the S1 Project is to foreground moral thinking and theological reflection in conversations about our shared common life.
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Tara Isabella Burton
Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the novels Social Creature, The World Cannot Give, and Here in Avalon, as well as the nonfiction books Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World and Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians.
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Anastasia Berg
Anastasia Berg is assistant professor of philosophy at University of California, Irvine, and an editor of The Point magazine. She is the co-author of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press, 2024).
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Brian Dijkema
Brian Dijkema is the President, Canada at Cardus, and a senior editor of Comment. He is a public policy analyst, public commentator, and writer.
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Rachel Wiseman
Rachel Wiseman is the managing editor of The Point magazine. She is the co-author of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press 2024).
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Nathan Beacom
Nathan Beacom is the founder of the Lyceum Movement in Des Moines, Iowa. His writing has appeared in Plough Quarterly, The New Atlantis, Civil Eats, and elsewhere.
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David Brooks
David Brooks is an author and an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. His latest book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Random House), was released in 2023.
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Louis Kim
Louis Kim is a technology executive, as well as a contributing editor and essayist at Comment.
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Maxim Kim
Maxim Kim is a graduate of Reed College. His published research focuses on the relationship between belonging and learning outcomes.
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John D. Witvliet
John D. Witvliet has served as the director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship since 1997, and is joining the faculty of Belmont University this summer.
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David Robinson
David S. Robinson is the R. Paul Stevens Assistant Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College, an affiliate school of the University of British Columbia. He is also director of Regent’s MA in Leadership, Theology, and Society—a low-residency, cohort-based degree designed for working professionals. David’s writing has appeared in Journal of Church and State, Modern Theology, and Studies in Christian Ethics.
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Doug Sikkema
Doug Sikkema is an associate editor for Comment magazine and an associate professor of English and the Core Program at Redeemer University. His research area is contemporary American literature with a particular focus on the ways in which the material world is imagined by Christian writers in a postsecular culture. Doug is the board chair of Oak Hill Academy, a classical Christian school located in Ancaster that he helped cofound in 2017.
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Jerry Root
Jerry Root is professor emeritus at Wheaton College (Illinois). Most of his academic work focuses on C.S. Lewis studies.
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Skyler Adleta
Skyler Adleta is a husband, father, electrician, and construction project manager. He enjoys writing about philosophy, theology, and community.
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Christina Bieber Lake
BIOChristina Bieber Lake is a professor of English (emerita) at Wheaton College. A Flannery O’Connor scholar, she is author most recently of Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. She speaks and writes on contemporary American fiction and culture, theological anthropology, and technology. Christina writes weekly essays on spiritual transformation through the power of literature at Art & Soul. An award-winning teacher, she also frequently leads faculty development seminars and retreats. -
Robert Joustra
Robert Joustra is Professor of Politics & International Studies at Redeemer University.
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Abram Van Engen
Abram Van Engen is the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, chair of the English Department, and professor of religion and politics (by courtesy) at Washington University in St. Louis.
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