Sonya S. Cronin is a biblical scholar who has spent more than 15 years teaching the intersection of religion and fantasy literature (C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman) at Florida State University. She currently teaches this material for Florida State's International Programs in London. Her books include The Repentance of YHWH: Mark's Gospel of Universal Inclusion (Fortress Press, 2025) and Raymond Brown, "the Jews," and the Gospel of John: From Apologia to Apology (T&T Clark, 2015), and she is currently co-authoring a book on hope as public theology with Carey C. Newman. She is a founder and the executive director of The Carrier Pigeon Post, a nonprofit that puts hope into prison through story.
NCR Book Club: In Where Wonder Leads, author Eric Clayton does for the reader what Gandalf does for a hobbit and Dumbledore does for an orphan: He points the way, names the dangers and steps aside.
