Ad Fontes is a quarterly journal of Protestant letters published by The Davenant Institute. Each issue features a combination of longform 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.
Joshua Paladino | Associate Editor
Joshua Paladino, Managing Editor of Davenant Academic Press, is an Assistant Professor at Cleveland State University's Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, where he teaches American politics and political theory. His research interests include American local government and the political and theological thought of C. S. Lewis. He has published on C. S. Lewis in Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal and Pietas: A Journal of Tradition, Place, and Things Divine. His current book project is The Political Theology of C. S. Lewis.
Miles Smith | Associate Editor
Miles Smith is Associate Professor of History and a Fellow of the Center for Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College. His research interests are intellectual and military history in the 19th century American South and the Atlantic World. He has written three books; Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War, and Valiant and Pious: the Idea of the Christian Soldier in America, 1776-1861, both published with Davenant Press. He co-authored That Blessed Liberty: Episcopal Bishops and the Development of the American Republic 1789-1860 with Adam Carrington. He regularly contributes articles on religion, the military, and politics to scholarly and popular outlets.
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).
