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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

12 days

Very exciting news this afternoon. Thank you to all who have preordered. I can't wait for you to read it!

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Nadya Williams

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3 months

If "mislead" means they get you free maternity care and ultrasounds, help you find housing if needed, and give you a ton of diapers and baby products for free once you have your baby if you need these things, yeah, they sure do. It's almost like they care about you as a person?!

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Not sure I have ever seen a billboard like this from a state or city health department. They are all over Western Mass now.

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Nadya Williams

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1 year

The cover is now certified final! Coming @ZonderAcademic Nov. 14th, just in time for Thanksgiving hostess gifts and all other holidays. Also, my kids keep telling people, "mom wrote a book about chariots," so I should clarify that sorry, this is not about chariot warfare.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 years

My book has a cover (okay, still listed as not final -- I think some more work may happen on the colors)! Official release date of 11/14!

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

6 months

For the evening crowd: today @LawLiberty I review @IAPonomarenko 's forthcoming memoir of reporting Putin's invasion of Ukraine from Kyiv, but it's also a book about freedom and why it matters.

Horror and Heroism in the Battle of Kyiv – Nadya Williams

Living in a free society shapes people in ways that tyrants like Vladimir Putin can hardly understand.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

8 months

Homeschool moms know: few things are as intellectually rigorous as being a homeschool mom. In a given day, I might teach long division or different types of triangles, ancient Greek, and engage in hours of read-alouds. Best of all: each day is different; my brain never stagnates.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

7 months

Friends, I've been sitting on some big news. Book #3 has now found a wonderful home @ZonderAcademic ! Thrilled to be working with them again--this time on a how-to guide for Christians on how we could profitably read the Greco-Roman Classics as Christians. Coming in late 2025.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

10 months

A retired gentleman from church read my book and discovered from my writing just how much coffee I drink. So tonight, he brought me a massive stash of coffee to church--so I would keep on writing (he explained). All the feels 😍😭

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

How my day is going:

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

10 months

While I'm thrilled with the recent ETS news, I appreciated the opportunity to share some thoughts about the pink scandal of the evangelical mind @CTmagazine : intellectual lives of women in the pews require more attention.

2023 Archives - Christianity Today

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

11 months

My research assistant is refusing to change out of pj's this morning, but she would like to remind everyone that this book will be out in the big wide world in just 4 days!!!

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 months

I started Latin in 10th grade because there were no spots in Spanish. Over 1/4 century later, wild to think how that decision shaped my life. I ended up getting a PhD in Classics, came to Christ 3 years after that-- and part of my conversion was the joy of reading NT in Greek.

Kate Seat

@magistra_sedes

2 months

Had so many students sign up for Latin this year I had to ask for some volunteers to switch to Spanish 😎

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Nadya Williams

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8 months

I know we say "don't just a book by its cover," but when it comes to my books, you totally should. I'm so in love with this cover for my next book!!! Coming from @ivpacademic later this year. It's been a joy to work with @octothorp and @rhastings1987 on this project!

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

Books seem to gestate a while--first in our heads, and then in various iterations on (digital) paper. And then, suddenly, one finds oneself, as I do tonight, finishing proofs. Also, my kids are in love with this cover, and honestly, I am too:

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in...

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

11 months

Yesterday @ivpacademic settled on a title for my 2nd book, going through editorial process. My title (Priceless) didn't make the cut, but I love what they came up with: Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

7 months

The earliest Christians were steeped in the Greco-Roman Classics. So, if you're wondering how/why the Scripture had such power over them, reading Homer, Greek tragedy, Vergil, and a whole lot of other pagan authors is a good way to go. (why, yes, I am writing a book about this)

Justin Peters

@JustinPetersMin

7 months

@gavinortlund None. No work of fiction should ever change our worldview. As a Christian, my worldview is shaped by Scripture alone.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

4 months

Yikes! Also, I'm waiting to hear of a single university for whom this strategy turned out to be a winning one, a key to any sort of success.

John Fea

@JohnFea1

4 months

Cornerstone University fires tenured professors and terminates all humanities and arts programs.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

9 months

My book was the 4th most popular book of 2023 @ZonderAcademic ! I wrote this book for the church. It's a new year, and I hope you will consider reading it this year! I'm going to do another drawing to mail three copies this week. Like and retweet if interested!

Zondervan Academic

@ZonderAcademic

10 months

4: Cultural Christians in the Early Church by Nadya Williams “Williams creatively uses early Christian history to illuminate the narrow road of faithful discipleship.” —Nijay K. Gupta, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

How did ancient woolworkers get the wool from the sheep to the point where you can spin the thread? An incredibly researched and entertaining article from @ScriptaPuella today:

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

9 months

Today at the Arena @Current_Pub1 , I propose a New Year's resolution to support the future of evangelical scholarship: read more women, and don't forget ones writing in the margins, outside of academia. That @KSPrior is in this category now says it all.

A New Year’s resolution to support the future of evangelical scholarship: read more women!

I have an easy New Year’s resolution for you, if you would like to support the future of evangelical (and, really, Christian) scholarship: read more women.

currentpub.com

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

Friends, our big news is now officially official. Looking forward to the move. I've been lured by promises of snow, so Ohio better deliver in this regard.

John Fea

@JohnFea1

1 year

CURRENT contributing editor and American historian Daniel K. Williams is the new Director of Teacher Programs the @ashbrookcenter at @ashland_Univ . Congratulations @DanielKWilliam4 and @NadyaWilliams81 !

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

My author copies just arrived (squeal!), and a certain little girl is eager to teach her toy sloth everything about the early church. Thank you @ZonderAcademic @EmilyBruff

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

9 months

8yo asked (and received) a harmonica and harmonica-specific sheet music for Christmas. This post is a request for thoughts and prayers as we walk through this difficult time as a family.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

On this fine spring afternoon, I am pleased to report that I just signed a contract for my next book. Priceless (working subtitle "Recovering the Counter-Cultural Value of Children, Motherhood, and All Humanity") is now at home @ivpacademic . Pleased to be working with @octothorp !

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Nadya Williams

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3 months

@KSPrior Amazing! By contrast, I married a fellow historian, so we can ask the question: how many historians does it take to change a lightbulb? (Sometimes two hasn't been sufficient for the job)

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

4 months

It's really terrible how my homeschooled kid is learning (checks notes) Ancient Greek and dabbling for fun in pre-algebra at age 8. Definitely need the state to crack down on this sort of thing🙄Also, it's rather funny just how many PhD parents I know who homeschool.

Jen Jennings, PhD

@eduwonkette_jen

4 months

In the US, 1 in 17 kids is now homeschooled, but lax state regulations mean we know little about whether they're receiving the education they deserve. Think we shouldn't be concerned abt educational neglect? Read Tara Westover's Educated or Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

Alright, people, what does deodorant inspired by Homeric epics smell like? Wrong answers only, please.

Dr Emily Wilson

@EmilyRCWilson

1 year

Sometimes I wonder bleakly whether my work has any real "impact" beyond the academy. But I got an email from a company planning to manufacture A DEODORANT INSPIRED BY MY HOMERIC TRANSLATIONS. My life has not lacked purpose.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

@eduardo_garcmol As @aristofontes explained in class ca. 23 years ago, and I quote, "before there were computers, there were Germans."

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 months

Excited for this news to be masthead official: thrilled to continue my work @Current_Pub1 now as Managing Editor. I will still be working on book reviews as part of this larger responsibility. Anyway, send me your best pitches! And we'd love your support!

Changes to the CURRENT masthead

As we continue to build and refine our work at Current, we are happy to announce the following changes: Jay Green, one of Current's founders, has moved

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

The only ancient manual specifically designed to teach audiences "How to Write History" is the work of the satirist Lucian. It begins by making fun of all his contemporaries who decided that they're historians, so they're all writing military history, because that's the only/1

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 years

I've been sitting on some big news that is now official: I am now the Book Review Editor for Current, a magazine for which I've been writing (and have loved reading) for a while. Academic/writer friends, be warned that you may be hearing from me! Oh, and we pay our writers!

John Fea

@JohnFea1

2 years

Editorial changes at Current

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 month

I feel obnoxious (re)posting, but here's the obligatory reminder that my next book will be out on October 15. In addition, I learned today that the audio book version will be out on Audible etc. Nov. 5!

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

One of the first books I had read as a 30-year-old secular Jew exploring Christianity for the first time was @timkellernyc 's Reason for God. One of his many legacies is that I am just one of thousands who can say this as part of my testimony.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

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My book about our society's post-Christian attitudes to motherhood and children and the need to recover human dignity will be out Oct. 15. The conversations on these topics in the news of late only reinforce the concerns I consider.

WomackPoetry

@WomackPoetry

1 month

#BookNews Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity by @NadyaWilliams81 releases on October 15, 2024, and it is available for preorder!! "Those on both the left and right today who wish to trade in Christianity for the

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

5 months

Latest read aloud in progress. 8yo is in stitches. 5yo is just here for the snacks.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 month

Can't make this stuff up.

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@wantedinrome

1 month

A burglar who broke into an apartment in Rome last night was arrested after sitting down mid-robbery to read a book about Greek mythology.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

Today @anxious_bench I have big news:

Discerning Vocation: Walking Away from Academia

It seems that whenever I hear Christians talk about the consequences of Adam and Eve's sin and their expulsion from Eden, the conversation revolves around Too often in the modern workplace, we forget...

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

My point: if you do a study on homeschoolers and college, and leave out of your study the many small Christian colleges that have a high percentage of homeschoolers in the student body, are you even doing a study of homeschoolers and college?

John Fea

@JohnFea1

1 year

Yesterday I published a post about a @TheFIREorg study of colleges with the highest percentage of homeschoolers. I learned about it from @ryanburge 's feed. Today @NadyaWilliams81 challenges the study's "problematic methodology."

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

10 months

My writing is made possible in large part by everything this wonderful man does: kid baths each night (and I wrote the CT piece during bathtime), feeds the kids breakfast every morning so I can sleep a little more, takes them out on Saturdays so I get "writing retreats," etc.

Daniel K. Williams

@DanielKWilliam4

10 months

@NadyaWilliams81 's CT article this week has been getting a lot of traction for its insightful analysis of how efforts to honor the "pink evangelical mind" need to extend far beyond academia.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

5 months

Happy 6 months to *Cultural Christians in the Early Church*( @ZonderAcademic )! I'm going to do another book drawing--like and retweet by tomorrow night (05/15), and I'll draw 3 names!

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in...

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

3 months

My tweet this weekend blew up, so I'll note that I have a book @ivpacademic coming this Oct. on a related topic--how contemporary post-Christian devaluing of mothers and children looks alarmingly like the pre-Christian pagan devaluing of human life.

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

No, we don't have furniture in the house yet. No stove yet either. But as of last night, we do have a library card to the local library! Priorities, folks, priorities.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

My book now has a launch page with more info and all the endorsements, and I'm just so grateful for the wonderful scholars who took time to pre-read it (many thanks to @mbird12 @NijayKGupta @Aug354430 @JohnFea1 @johnpauldickson and a few not on this site):

Cultural Christians in the Early Church - Marketing Pages

Dive into the Lives of Early Christians In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normal...

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

5 months

The uni where I worked for 13 yrs GREW and flourished with leadership of opera singer president and medieval English lit provost. Alas, the president was too successful, so was appointed somewhere bigger. Then a new non-humanities prez and provost arrived, and enrollment tanked.

Associate Deans

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The new dean is a Milton scholar. I hope this informs you about our organization and culture. (Someone explain it to the engineers)

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 years

I just got the cover options for my book, and I'm just going to sit here and squeal for a few minutes before I can do anything else. They're all so good!! Looking forward to sharing the final version once it's official. Cultural Christians in the Early Church -- coming Oct. 2023!

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 month

Happy First Day of Classes (beginning year 20 of teaching, but 1st year of full-time teaching @AshlandUniv !) to my favorite American historian!

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Nadya Williams

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1 year

Currently working through the copyedited ms, and feeling profoundly grateful for everyone @ZonderAcademic , but this week, especially grateful for my copyeditor. Unsung heroes copyeditors are.

Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 years

My book has a cover (okay, still listed as not final -- I think some more work may happen on the colors)! Official release date of 11/14!

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

9 months

Sometimes I see a headline, and I'm so sure it's The Onion. And then I realize it's, well, not.

Brad Wilcox

@BradWilcoxIFS

9 months

Never change, @nytimes :

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

10 months

Dan talking to 8yo just now: you still have 8 days until Christmas. 8yo: yes, exactly the amount of time it took President McKinley to die of his gunshot wound. Dan: 😳

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

10 months

Friends, comments on my @ivpacademic book *Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic* have landed, and deadline is the end of this month. Honestly, this work is perfect for Advent (along with family time!). Book coming in Fall 2024! But for now, scaling back Twitter activity.

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Nadya Williams

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2 years

We're not supposed to have favorites, but I have a favorite student this semester in World Civ. For each class unit, he records an interview with his dad about the unit's topic. It's very clear that dad does all the class reading too, and they just have this amazing conversation.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

11 months

It's book birthday for Cultural Christians in the Early Church, and I'm so grateful for @katherinejlucky 's review of it @Current_Pub1 today!

REVIEW: Cultural Christians R Us

A close look at ancient Roman Christians shows us we’re not alone

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

6 months

Today at the Arena blog @Current_Pub1 , I review @NancyAFrench 's new memoir. Hers is a powerful story in its own right, but in parts it also reminded me of certain aspects of @BethMooreLPM 's memoir and @KSPrior 's story.

Nancy French, Ghosted—a conservative, interrupted

Nancy French's memoir is a story of God showing love to the weak and redeeming creation while also calling fallible people to restore justice already here on earth.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

In my 15 years in secular academia, I've found misogyny and outright disrespect for women alive and well on a regular basis at work. You know where I have never experienced misogyny or disrespect? My conservative complementarian PCA church.

Dr. Stephanie Chalifoux

@SMChalifoux

1 year

Today a colleague referred to me as Ms. instead is Dr. in a meeting that included other faculty and a student. I’m a bit angry. I corrected him. No apology. I’ve NEVER heard him refer to a male colleague with a PhD as Mr. Anyone have similar experiences?

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I didn't do a launch team for my first book, but there is one happening for this one, and there is still time to sign up! @ivpacademic

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

10 months

Shameless self-promo: Amazon (of the non-horseback-archery variety) can still get my @ZonderAcademic book to you or a nerdy friend in time for Christmas! Also, if you read it, would you consider leaving a review at Amazon/Goodreads to help others find it?

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in...

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

4 months

@stephmurrayyyy A while back I read a story, on a related note, how a lot of colleges have had to reconfigure dorms in the past decade or so, because they're getting so many students who have never shared a room in their life, and who just can't fathom having a roommate.

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Nadya Williams

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I'm grateful @CTmagazine ran pieces on both homeschooling (like mine, linked below) and public schooling ( @stefanimcdade ), for the simple reason that, um, your schooling choice is not in the Bible. Yeah, I love my decision and feel strongly about it. But it's not a faith test.

Christianity Today

@CTmagazine

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“It has given us more space to think about more important learning outcomes, about raising kids who will love God with all their hearts, minds, and souls and love their neighbors as themselves.” @NadyaWilliams81 on her decision to homeschool:

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So, um, in my review I mentioned how marriage and parenting are a school of virtues, since what better way to practice virtues than when a kid wakes you up in the middle of the night so they could barf on you. And IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT. Anyways, I'm off to do a lot of laundry.

Providence

@ProvMagazine

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Review of @BradWilcoxIFS new book “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization” by @NadyaWilliams81

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Two weeks ago, my 9yo used his hard-earned chores money to order a piece of the Berlin wall on Ebay. It came in today. He's very happy.

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1 year

One of the kids just prefaced a question with "back in the 1990s, when you were young..." Please respect my privacy during this difficult time.

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8 months

Copyediting a book on motherhood while two kids experiment with their best emergency siren voices is very extra in all kinds of ways--including extra sanctifying. ICYMI: this beautiful cover (and 77,000 of my words inside it) can be yours Oct. 15, 2024! Preorders coming soon.

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11 months

Yay!!! So exciting to see my book at #sblaar2023 -- and next to legends, no less!

Emily Bruff

@EmilyBruff

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1 year

A Congressman on this site today telling college kids not to major in "useless" subjects. I didn't write this as a response to him specifically, but I suppose it works as a response. Our society and democracy need these "useless" subjects:

Killing the humanities at WVU: déjà vu all over again

When colleges dismantle the humanities, everyone suffers. The past several years have seen the dismantling of the humanities and the liberal arts in many

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Can't wait to tell this to my homeschooled National Merit Finalist husband who went to college on a full-ride scholarship that he won as National History Day champion. Also, I'm soon going to run out of fingers on both hands to count the number of books he's written.

RealHousewifeofMedford

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@blitziod @ShevyShevrolet @TheRobertBshow @conservmillen Homeschool kids are at an epic disadvantage. It provides, at best, an 8th grade education. When they come back into our schools, they are years behind. And if they go to college, they are woefully unprepared. It's just another way to raise sheep.

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That thing I did for fun during a pandemic, will be out in the big wide world in 1.5 months! There are pre-order perks available, so will link @ZonderAcademic 's book page below for those interested in signing up (doesn't matter where you get the book).

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11 months

Today's weather forecast: sunny with a chance of chariots. Official release date Nov. 14!

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2 months

Not a central argument in my forthcoming book on motherhood, but I do note that devaluing single women esp. in antiquity was part and parcel of the same misogyny that motivates devaluing of mothers and children. It comes from a lack of respect for persons.

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity

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2 months

In our world where workism is the dominant religion, can I say how refreshing (and rare) it is to see a man, especially, say: hey, I'm going to put my wife, my family first? Praying for this family.

Ben Sasse

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Dear Gator Nation and cherished friends, This isn’t an easy note to write but wanted to give you an update on our family. As many of you know, my wife Melissa suffered an aneurysm and series of strokes in 2007. Back then, the docs prepared us for the worst, but – in God’s

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Both the book and the video lectures are officially out in the big wide world tomorrow!

Daniel N. Gullotta ⚓️

@DanielGullotta

11 months

Hey! It’s @NadyaWilliams81 !!!

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1 year

Apparently, I should have looked earlier at the new releases in "Religious Studies--History" category. Wow. Thank you, everyone! Going to stop being obnoxious about it for a few days now, I promise. So excited to get to share my ideas, and hope it is an encouraging read.

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Welcome to the family, cutie! I think we're going to become fast friends!

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@NadyaWilliams81

6 months

8yo just checked out from the kids section in the library a book titled "What Was the Donner Party?"

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

4 months

I really do not need this kind of negativity in my life.

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Nadya Williams

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Sad that everyone but her in this house is writing papers and books, the 5yo has had enough and is writing her own research paper on the Cold War this morning. (FYI: she can't really read yet, but she can copy things well enough to fake it from brother's books)

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

8 months

On a very related note, the copyedits have landed!

Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

8 months

I know we say "don't just a book by its cover," but when it comes to my books, you totally should. I'm so in love with this cover for my next book!!! Coming from @ivpacademic later this year. It's been a joy to work with @octothorp and @rhastings1987 on this project!

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

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Earlier this week, I received edits for Christians Reading Pagans ( @ZonderAcademic ), so between now and mid-Oct., I will be wrapping up final revisions on this ms! Classical Christian ed friends/Christians who love reading Classics of the Greco-Roman variety, it's coming in 2025!

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 months

In a couple of days, I'll turn in Christians Reading Pagans to @ZonderAcademic ! A sentence in the final chapter, on Boethius: "A life lived with good books is a life in which we are never alone--even in those times when, like Boethius, we feel abandoned by all earthly friends."

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

😍 Yay!!! One month and 9 days to pub date, but who's counting?!

Emily Bruff

@EmilyBruff

1 year

Pumped to get this in the mail today 🙌 @NadyaWilliams81

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 months

PSA: if you just rolled home last night after a long trip and haven't made it to the store yet, and you really must put something in your coffee (as a civilized person)-- anyway, ice cream will really work quite nicely.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

3 months

Years ago, when I was on academic job market, someone from a department to which I had applied told me in confidence that one of my recommenders mentioned that I had birthed a small child while dissertating, and this created the impression that I just wasn't a serious scholar.

Alicia Andrzejewski, PhD, she/her

@aliciaandrz

3 months

I posted the story of my pregnancy & "disappointed" mentor in my PhD Mamas FB group & the horror stories flooding in are painful "one of our advisors told a pregnant friend that she had marched so that my friend didn’t have to do this, gesturing at her pregnant belly" @Momademia

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

10 months

Highest praise possible. I think I've peaked.

Beth Moore

@BethMooreLPM

10 months

@NadyaWilliams81 @CTmagazine Such a good article, Nadya. And I’m a big fan of a well-penned opening sentence. While I’m no academic, I nevertheless give this one an A. :)

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

Look who's making it into the rankings!!!! Currently #7 in new releases for History of Religion (lower in other lists, but still exciting). Official release date is Nov. 14, so we have a while to go, and I'll try not to be too obnoxious in my excitement.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

3 months

This (incredibly detailed and superbly researched) book kinda broke my brain. Review in progress for @mereorthodoxy

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

history they consider worth writing about, and they're all bad at it. As a military historian I've always thought that I don't need this kind of negativity in my life. Also, I think Lucian would have had a field day with this weekend's Twitter discourse on Military History TM. /2

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

@JoshuaSchachte2 This:

When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible

How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible...

www.amazon.com

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

Publication date is now just under a month away! So very grateful for scholars to whom I've looked up for so long, like Philip Jenkins (my much more distinguished @anxious_bench colleague), who took the time to pre-read and comment.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 months

Alrighty, friends, hitting SEND on this! It's so weird to just submit a WHOLE BOOK this way. Like, shouldn't I have to print it out first (or maybe copy out by hand? On papyrus scrolls?), hire a donkey, and cart it over to the publisher?

Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 months

In a couple of days, I'll turn in Christians Reading Pagans to @ZonderAcademic ! A sentence in the final chapter, on Boethius: "A life lived with good books is a life in which we are never alone--even in those times when, like Boethius, we feel abandoned by all earthly friends."

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

3 months

This morning @DanielKWilliam4 took the kids out for a couple of hours, giving me the necessary "writing retreat" time to finish the first complete draft of Christians Reading Pagans. I now have 3 weeks to read through, edit, and whip footnotes into a more respectable shape. 🥳

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

16 days

My favorite American historian @DanielKWilliam4 reviews a certain book today @Current_Pub1 . Yes, there has been much discussion of it elsewhere, but if you have wanted to get a take on it from an evangelical historian of evangelicalism, here it is!

REVIEW: Shepherds for Sale?

Megan Basham’s theology is compromised and her history misguided

currentpub.com

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

Over the weekend, I finished working through my copyedited ms. And it looks like the book is now officially pre-order ready on Amazon, so (to borrow the words of the Velveteen Rabbit), it is turning into real:

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in...

Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World

www.amazon.com

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

7 months

In honor of March 8, read (more) women! That's the tweet. Well, okay, I also wrote some reflections about why and assembled a very incomplete and subjective list of ten new books by women (both fiction and nonfiction), if you're in search of such a list.

On this International Women’s Day, celebrate by reading women

The intellectual world of those whose reading diet does not regularly include the work of women is greatly impoverished.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

11 months

For the evening crowd: it's book release day for Cultural Christians in the Early Church! Thank you to all who are reading/listening/planning to read or listen! In the meanwhile, it was a joy to read @katherinejlucky 's review of it today @Current_Pub1 .

REVIEW: Cultural Christians R Us

A close look at ancient Roman Christians shows us we’re not alone

currentpub.com

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

I try to read diff. things on Sunday than the reg. week. And today, re-reading C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces. One of the things that I relate to is that he was steeped in the Greco-Roman Classics, and processed his faith through them. But then so did the earliest converts.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 months

My review of this beautiful but also brain-breaking book is coming @CTmagazine

Jennifer Banks

@jenniferabanks

2 months

Advance copy in! Pubbing August 27th @yalepress . "The dialogue takes place at the estate of Eros and Psyche, in one of its many gardens. Everything is in blossom. In that place, everything always is." David Bentley Hart / ALL THINGS ARE FULL OF GODS

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

11 months

Some folks perfected their sourdough starters, some wrote, some did both. At any rate, my fun pandemic sanity saving project will be officially out 3 weeks from tomorrow! Grateful for @NijayKGupta 's kind words about it! I wrote this for the church and hope it will be a blessing.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

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In the late 1990's, the university where I just finished teaching for 15 years was holding a search for a medievalist. One of the finalists was a military historian, and he brought a trebuchet model with him to his campus interview. During his interview lecture, he took a bag /1

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

9 months

My favorite American historian is off to his first day of teaching for this semester, walking to work in this winter wonderland 😍

Daniel K. Williams

@DanielKWilliam4

9 months

My first day of spring 2024 classes. Every year @NadyaWilliams81 takes a picture of me on my first day of class. This year we live close enough to campus for me to walk to work - so Nadya's photo captures me preparing to walk to the Ashland campus in today's wintry mix.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

2 years

Someone we considered a dear friend sent my children a train whistle as a present, and now we obviously can't be friends anymore.

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Nadya Williams

@NadyaWilliams81

1 year

of golf balls from his briefcase, and proceeded to shoot one into the lecture hall, narrowly missing a student. With apologies he said, I just need to fix the aim. Another 20 minutes of demo continued, miraculously not hitting a single target. Reader, he did not get the job. /2

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