S. A. Roorda is an aspiring scholar who hopes to spend all of her days locked in an ivory tower contemplating worthless speculations. She will let you be the judge of how close she is getting to this goal. In the meantime she enjoys reading many books (some randomly selected favorites are Mansfield Park, Crime and Punishment, and Freddy Goes Camping), writing about things (especially things she doesn’t understand), and being randomly creative. These she fits in wherever she can when she is not overwhelmed by the daily business of living (such as breathing, sleeping, eating, and remembering to brush her hair).

Sarah has been a Reformed Christian all of her life and hopes to continue so for the remainder of it. She believes that worship is probably the most significant thing any person can do, because it’s what God made us for and the thing that gives order and structure to the rest of our lives. She’s also pretty well convinced that there’s nothing as wonderful on earth as good Christian fellowship, and is delighted by the sheer amount of joy, fun, beauty, goodness, and goofiness that God allows us to experience on a regular basis. It’s not fair. (for instance, Pixar movies are really better than we deserve)

Sarah’s main influences are Walter R. Brooks (author of the Freddy the Pig books), C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, James B. Jordan, and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (even though she is only now beginning to delve into the latter’s works, she has already become fairly familiar with some of his ideas through friends). One thing she believes all these authors have in common is an appreciation for the marvelous and beautiful even in the apparently commonplace. This sort of feeling comes in handy while living in a laid-back place like Iowa, where there are no mountains or beaches, but only miles and miles of astoundingly beautiful (but still wonderfully home-like) farmland. She would like you to know that crops are clothing for the land (and she’s pretty sure this is Biblical imagery, although you’d have to ask Peter Leithart, since she stole the idea from him), and so they should be considered a kind of glory. Think about that the next time you see a cornfield.

Finally, she is still wrestling with one of life’s greatest questions; that is, the question of when commas should be used and to what degree (and, of course, when they should be replaced with semi-colons).