Holly Ordway is an American author, Tolkien scholar, and academic. She serves as the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute and is a Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. She previously served as the founding Chair of the Department of Apologetics and Director of the Master of Arts in Apologetics program at HCU, where she architected the program's foundational curriculum. She won a 2022 Mythopoeic Award for her book Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages.
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Not God's Type An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms
2020
ISBN 9781586178932
Tolkien's faith
2023
ISBN 9781685789916
Not God's Type
2010
ISBN 9780802431943