Ad Fontes is a quarterly journal of Protestant letters published by The Davenant Institute. Each issue features a combination of long-form essays, shorter articles, book reviews, and poetry. This website hosts our digital issues, as well as an extensive archive of past pieces, and a wide array of columns and commentary.
Editors
Patrick Timmis | Senior Editor
Patrick Timmis is Senior Editor of Ad Fontes, and teaches the literature of the English Renaissance & Reformation at Hillsdale College. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The Ben Jonson Journal, Studies in Philology, Notes & Queries, The Chaucer Review, Christianity & Literature, The Journal of Inklings Studies, and Pro Ecclesia. He has edited volumes for Westminster Seminary Press and Davenant Press in the field of Reformation studies, and his book The Protestant Imagination of C.S. Lewis is under contract with Canon Press. He is a licensed Reader and Catechist in the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word.
Jeremiah Regan | Associate Editor
Jeremiah Regan (Ph.D., Hillsdale College) is Politics Editor of Ad Fontes, and Executive Director of Online Education at Hillsdale College, where he is also a lecturer in Politics. He has delivered numerous presentations on American political theory, manliness, and the Second Amendment and trained hundreds of law enforcement officers in the Constitution. He is the producer of over a dozen cinematic online courses and several documentaries, including the theatrical feature Revolutionary America.
Joshua Patch | Associate Editor
Joshua Patch is a poet and literary critic from Texas, now based at Hillsdale College, where he teaches in the Education Department. His poetry, which often deals with Texas and/or the Bible, has appeared in Solum Journal, The Reformed Journal, and The Borough. His academic work focuses on the English Renaissance, especially Edmund Spenser. Before he was an editor, he wrote a piece for Ad Fontes on Spenser's Faerie Queene as a handbook for Christian elites. His other interests include children's literature, American education, metaphysics, psalmody, and the history of rock 'n' roll.
Nathan Nocchi | Associate Editor
Nathan Nocchi is a Ph.D. candidate at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he serves as Managing Editor of Westminster Magazine, and Associate Director of Communications. He is co-general editor of the Collected Works of Anthony Burgess (Reformation Heritage Books, 2026–2031), editor and author of Pulpits and Lecterns: University Sermons, Disputations, and Lectures (Reformation Heritage Books, 2027), author of Wisdom from Westminster: Devotional Readings from Twelve Divines (Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 2026), and co-editor of Reformation and Society: Collected Essays Examining Sources, Nations, and Legacies of Reformations (Westminster Seminary Press, 2025).
