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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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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April Lawson
April Lawson founded Braver Angels’ Debate and Public Discourse Program. She grew up in Kansas, studied anthropology at Yale, and now lives in Los Angeles with her dog June.
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
Leah Libresco Sargeant is the author of Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. She runs Other Feminisms, a Substack community focused on the dignity of interdependence.
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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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Obiekwe “Obi” Okolo
Obiekwe “Obi” Okolo is a Nigerian American photographer, multimedia artist, and reluctant writer. He’s also creative director at BitterSweet Creative and the arts and culture editor for BitterSweet Monthly.
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Dontay M. Givens II
Dontay M. Givens II is a medieval and early modern studies and black studies PhD student in the New York University English Department.
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Dominic Erdozain
Dominic Erdozain has written widely on the intellectual origins of democracy and has published opinion pieces for CNN and Time. A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, he is currently a visiting professor at Emory University.
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Sean Speer
Sean Speer is the editor at large at The Hub (www.thehub.ca), a senior fellow at the Public Policy Forum, and the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He previously served as a senior adviser to former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.
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Mike Cosper
Mike Cosper is the director of media for Christianity Today. He is the author of the spiritual memoir Land of My Sojourn: Landscapes of a Faith Lost and Found (InterVarsity, 2024) and the forthcoming The Church in Dark Times: Understanding and Resisting the Evil that Seduced the Evangelical Movement (Brazos, 2024).
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