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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James K.A. Smith
James K. A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin University. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, including, most recently, Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing, as well as You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit and On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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David Brooks
David Brooks is staff writer for the Atlantic and the inaugural senior presidential fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is a commentator on The PBS Newshour and founder and chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project. Previously, he served as a columnist at the New York Times for twenty-two years. His most recent book is How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. His previous books include The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, and The Social Animal, all number-one New York Times bestsellers.
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Alec Ryrie
Alec Ryrie is professor of the history of Christianity at Durham University, a fellow of the British Academy, and a licensed lay preacher in the Church of England. His books include The Age of Hitler (2025), Unbelievers (2019), and the forthcoming The World’s Reformation (2026).
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Luke Bretherton
Luke Bretherton is Canon and Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, University of Oxford.
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Laura Fabrycky
Laura M. Fabrycky is an American author and essayist, and a doctoral candidate in systematic theology at ETF Leuven (Belgium), writing on acedia in democracy.
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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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Manuel Dürr
Manuel Andreas Dürr studied painting at the Classical Academy of Art in Florence and later philosophy, art history, and Slavic studies at the Universities of Fribourg and Bern. His works have been shown in international exhibitions in Europe, China, and the US. He works as a freelance artist in Biel, Switzerland, and runs a studio together with his wife Anja. They have three children.
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Steven Kurutz
Steven Kurutz is a features reporter for the New York Times, where he covers style and culture.
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Matthew J. Milliner
Matthew J. Milliner is professor of art history at Wheaton College. He is the author of The Everlasting People (InterVarsity Press, 2021) and Mother of the Lamb (Fortress Press, 2022).
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Andrew Hendrixson
Andrew Hendrixson is an artist and doctoral candidate in theology and the arts at Duke Divinity School.
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