Contributors for Volume Two, Issue One
Blyvyn
Blyvyn is a junior devil who graduated cum flammans from the Tempters' College. His dissertation, Triumphing Over the Evangelical Mind, outlined a plan that was successfully implemented in concert with his mentor Screwtape's "Project Babel-on." Blyvyn is currently leading experiments on the Coalition of Evangelical Colleges and Wannabes at the Center for Advanced Research in Pride, Snobbery, Envy, Vain Ambition, and Ressentiment.
Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol is a political scientist, columnist and writer from Turkey. He is also a director at the Intercultural Dialogue Platform, based in Istanbul.
Michael J. Baxter, C.S.C.
Michael J. Baxter is assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. This article is reprinted from the Houston Catholic Worker, Vol. XXV, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2005. An earlier version also appeared in D. Brent Laytham, ed., God is Not . . . Religious, Nice, "One of Us," an American, a Capitalist (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2004).
Bruce R. Berglund
Bruce Berglund is Assistant Professor of History at Calvin College. He previously served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas where he was the assistant director of KU’s Center for Russian and East European Studies. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and his writing on Eastern Europe has appeared in numerous academic publications. (At the time this issue was published, Berglund was a contributing editor for TNP.)
Randy Boyagoda
Randy Boyagoda is a postdoctoral fellow with the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame. His writing on religion, literature, politics and culture appears frequently in American and Canadian publications. Randy completed his Ph.D. in English at Boston University in December 2004 with a dissertation on immigration, race, and American identity in the fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. For the past four years, he has been a Doctoral Research Fellow with the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In addition to academic articles on twentieth century American literature and contemporary literary theory, he has published essays, opinion editorials, book reviews, and short fiction in several public policy, intellectual, and literary journals. His writing predominantly focuses on the interrelations of religion, literature, culture, and politics. He has written for The Walrus, The Claremont Review of Books, The National Review, First Things, Crisis, The American Enterprise, Mississippi Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, The Human Life Review, Postcolonial Text, The University of Toronto Quarterly, Religion and Literature, South Asian Review, and The World and I. He has recently been elected a postdoctoral fellow at the Erasmus Institute at Notre Dame. (At the time this issue was published, Randy was Books Editors for tNP.)David Robert Evans
David Robert Evans lives primarily in Hungary where he is a translator of contemporary Hungarian literature into English.
Jeff Gundy
Jeff Gundy's most recent collection of poems is Deerflies (WordTech Editions, 2004). He is also the author of three other poetry collections and two works of creative non-fiction, Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye (SUNY, 2003) and Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara (U of Illinois, 1996). Next year, Cascadia Publishing House will publish Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing, which gathers much of his thinking and writing about Mennonite literature.
D. G. Hart
D. G. Hart is the Director of Academic Projects and Faculty Development at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Previously he was dean of academic affairs and professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in California where he remains an adjunct member of the faculty. Earlier still he directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals and taught American history at Wheaton College. Dr. Hart is the author of many books, such as Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Era of Billy Graham; Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition; The Lost Soul of American Protestantism; That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century; With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (co-author); The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies and American Higher Education; Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (co-author); and Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America. In addition to many periodicals, Dr. Hart has been a guest several times with Mars Hill Audio.
Ed Higgins
Ed Higgins is Professor of English at George Fox University and a part-time farmer. His writing has appeared in Yankee, Commonweal, Bellowing Ark, Oregon English, Mobius, Sisters Today, Christianity & Literature, Christian Century, His, and College Composition and Communication.
Jean Janzen
Jean Janzen is a poet living in Fresno, California. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Piano in the Vineyard (Good Books, 2004). Her poems have appared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Image, The Christian Century, and many others. She is also a past recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Laurie Klein
Laurie Klein's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, New Letters, Commonweal, Mars Hill Review, Best Catholic Writing 2005, The Mennonite, The Presbyterian Record, and others. She won the 2004 Owl Creek Chapbook Competition for "Bodies of Water, Bodies of Flesh." Laurie works as consulting editor at Rock & Sling, a new literary journal of Literature, Art, and Faith.
John Leax
John Leax is professor of English and poet-in-residence at Houghton College where he is also a resident faculty member in Houghton's environment and culture program in Adirondack Park. Most recently, he has published an expanded and revised edition of Grace Is Where I Live (WordFarm, 2004). His Tabloid Poems will also appear from WordFarm in 2005.
Barry Moser
Barry Moser is a book designer and illustrator known for his hand-crafted, letterpress Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the King James Bible. Only 400 copies were printed.
David Naugle
Dr. David K. Naugle is chair and professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University. He is also the director of the Paideia College Society (formerly the Pew College Society) the purpose of which is to educate intellectually gifted students into their true nature as the image of God. The overall goal is not only the transformation of students, but also the reformation of the Church and the renewal of the various aspects of cultural life into which God has placed them providentially by calling. Dr. Naugle serves as a "Fellow" for the Wilberforce Forum, the Christian worldview think tank sponsored by Prison Fellowship in Washington, D. C. He serves as an associate editor of Findings, a quarterly journal produced by the Wilberforce Forum on worldview issues. He is also the editor of The Worldview Church E-Report published by the Wilberforce Forum as an information source designed to encourage Church leaders to implement a Christian worldview in their congregations. Dr. Naugle is the author of Worldview: The History of a Concept (Eerdmans 2002). Dr. Naugle's book was selected by Christianity Today magazine as the 2003 book of the year in the theology and ethics category.
Ailisha O'Sullivan
Ailisha O'Sullivan is an editor at Koinónia Publishing in Cluj, Romania.
James Schaefer
James Schaefer is the Gallery Director at Signs of Life Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas.
Screwtape
Screwtape is a senior devil in the Lowerarchy of Our Father Below.
András Visky
András Visky is a poet, playwright, and essayist who spent his early childhood in a Communist gulag along with his mother and six brothers and sisters, while his father, a minister in the Hungarian Reformed Church, was in prison elsewhere. Visky is the founder of the Koinónia publishing house. He is the dramaturg of the State Hungarian Theatre in Cluj, Romania, and an associate professor in aesthetics at the University of Babeş-Bolyai, also in Cluj. His play Juliet has been playing in Budapest since fall of 2002 at the Thália Theatre. Two newer plays, The Escape and The Alcoholics are premiering later this year in the Romanian cities of Târgu Mureş and Sepsiszent György respectively. His most recent play, The Unborn, is a stage adaptation of Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész (winner of the Nobel prize for literature, 2002). Visky lives in Cluj with his wife and four children.