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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Luke Bretherton
Luke Bretherton is Canon and Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, University of Oxford.
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Kent Dunnington
Kent Dunnington is professor of philosophy at Biola University in La Mirada, California, and the author of Addiction and Virtue (IVP Academic, 2011); Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory (Oxford University Press, 2019); and Gratitude to God (Baker Academic, 2026).
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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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Antón Barba-Kay
Antón Barba-Kay is distinguished fellow at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, as well as senior fellow at the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego.
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Arthur Aghajanian
Arthur Aghajanian is a Christian contemplative and essayist. His work explores visual culture through a spiritual lens.
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Eunice Gall
Eunice Gall is a Romanian visual artist whose practice unfolds at the meeting point of contemporary visual expression and spiritual-philosophical exploration. Her work has been shown across Romania and internationally, including in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Tiffany Thompson
Tiffany Thompson is the executive editor of Comment magazine and was the executive producer of the Understory festival.
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W.R. Thomsen
W.R. Thomsen is a pseudonym for a writer living in Canada. All names in this essay have been changed.
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Gregory Thompson
Gregory Thompson is a scholar and artist focusing largely on matters of race, religion, memory, and hospitality. Gregory is founder and principal of Convivium Studio, and creative director of both the National Memorial to the Underground Railroad and Star and Lantern, a cocktail bar and restaurant in partnership with chef Chris Scott.
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David Chang
David Chang is a Korean-American contemporary artist whose work explores the human mark as embodiment, memory, and transcendence.
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Erin Shaw
Erin Shaw is a visual artist, storyteller, and researcher. She is an international speaker on creativity and imagination, indigenous identity, and art.
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Tiffany Thompson
Tiffany Thompson is the executive editor of Comment magazine and was the executive producer of the Understory festival.
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Aryana Petrosky
Aryana Petrosky has spent nearly a decade working to bridge divides in the United States, with a particular passion for making connections across complex networks of ideas, people, and institutions. She writes at the intersection of faith, spiritual practices, democracy, and civic renewal. She is a 2025–27 Cultura Fellow at the Martin Institute.
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Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of fifteen books including, most recently, "Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair".
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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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Tomáš Halík
Tomáš Halík is a professor at Charles University in Prague, president of the Czech Christian Academy, pastor of the Academic parish, and vice president of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington. He is the author of numerous books translated into nineteen languages, was appointed by Pope John Paul II as adviser to the Pontifical Council for Dialogue with Non-Believers (1990), and was named honorary prelate by Pope Benedict XVI.
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