James K. A. Smith

James K.A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin University. As a cultural critic and commentator, he explores the tensions of modern life, inviting readers and audiences to more intentional practices of faith and flourishing. He is the award-winning author of a number of books including Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?, Desiring the Kingdom (2nd ed. 2026), You Are What You Love, On the Road with Saint Augustine, How to Inhabit Time, and The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology. His latest is Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing from Yale University Press (2026).

Smith served as editor in chief of Comment magazine (2013-2018) and Image journal (2019-2024). His essays and criticism have appeared in magazines that include the Christian Century, America, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, LitHub, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.