Presenter Bios
Nadya Williams, Ph.D., studied Classics at Princeton University. After fifteen years in academia, she is now a full-time homeschooling mother and writer.
She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023) and Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity (IVP Academic, October 2024). Her current book project, Christians Reading Pagans (under contract, Zondervan Academic) is a guide for Christians on reading the pagan Greco-Roman classics.
She is Book Review Editor for Current, where she also edits The Arena blog. Her essays have appeared in Christianity Today, Plough, Mere Orthodoxy, Church Life Journal, Front Porch Republic, Providence, and Fairer Disputations.
Kyle R. Hughes, Ph.D. (Radboud University Nijmegen) is a scholar-pastor-teacher specializing in the study of early Christianity and working to mine the riches of patristic theology for Classical and Christian schools. His primary theological interests include the development of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, spiritual formation in the Anglican tradition, and Christian teaching and learning. He is the author of the books Teaching for Spiritual Formation (Cascade, 2022), How the Spirit Became God (Cascade, 2020), and The Trinitarian Testimony of the Spirit (Brill, 2018).His academic articles on topics related to New Testament, patristics, and Christian education have appeared in Novum Testamentum, Vigiliae Christianae, Journal of Early Christian History, and International Journal of Christianity and Education. His popular writing has appeared in Anglican Compass, Classis, Modern Reformation, The North American Anglican, and a wide range of blogs related to theology and Christian education.
Kyle, his wife Karisa, and their three children live in Powder Springs, Georgia, where he works as Lower School Principal at The Stonehaven School in Marietta. He is the Director of Catechesis at Christ the King Anglican Church in Marietta. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient Evangelical Future at Trinity School for Ministry, is Fellow of Pedagogy and Church History at the Beza Institute for Reformed Classical Education, is a Pastoral Fellow at the Catechesis Institute, and is a member of the Society of Anglican Theologians.