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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Erin Plunkett
Erin Plunkett is senior lecturer in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Hertfordshire and works on Kierkegaard, phenomenology, and philosophy of religion. She is the editor of Kierkegaard and Possibility (2023) and The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul (2022), as well as the author of A Philosophy of the Essay (2018). She is currently writing a book about her childhood home.
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Christa Ballard Tooley
Christa Ballard Tooley is professor of sociology and academic director of the Belmont Innovation Labs for Social Impact at Belmont University. Her book, Tenement Nation: Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh (Indiana University Press, 2023), explores relationships between place and politics in urban Scotland. She lives, writes, and works from Nashville on cross-sector collaboration to address complex social issues.
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Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University and a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum. She is the author of a number of books, most recently Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?
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Gregory Thompson
Gregory Thompson is the author of Comment's regular column The Welcome Table, serves as a co-director of Voices Underground, and is a line chef at Broadcloth Restaurant in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Kate Schmidgall
Kate Schmidgall is founder and director of BitterSweet, a community of conviction-serious, risk-inclined creatives who create for flourishing with a vision to see global humanity brightened.
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Haejin Shim Fujimura
Haejin Shim Fujimura is a lawyer working at the intersection of restorative justice, business law, and the arts, and a co-founder of Embers International.
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Makoto Fujimura
Makoto Fujimura is a visual artist, writer, and the founder of IAMCultureCare (formerly International Arts Movement). His book Art Is: A Journey into the Light explores more of the artistic themes discussed here.
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