Brad East (PhD, Yale University) is an associate professor of theology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He is the author or editor of five books, including The Church: A Guide to the People of God (Lexham, 2024) and Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry (Eerdmans, 2024). His writing has appeared in The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Commonweal, First Things, The Hedgehog Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Atlantis, Mere Orthodoxy, Plough, The Point, and elsewhere. More information may be found at bradeast.org.