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Kathleen Nielson
Kathleen Nielson serves as director of women's initiatives for The Gospel Coalition. She holds MA and PhD degrees in literature from Vanderbilt University and a BA from Wheaton College. Author of the Living Word Bible studies, she speaks often at women's conferences and loves working with women in studying the Bible. She shares a heart for students with her husband, Niel, president of Covenant College from 2002 to 2012 and now leading an enterprise developing resources for Christian schools around the world.
Latest Posts
Grandparenting: A Great Road Trip
Kathleen Nielson | May 09, 2013 | 5:01 AMIt's a pretty magnificent vantage point—getting to see close-up our God at work generation after generation, just like he promised.
Flannery O'Connor, Faith, and a Wooden Leg
Kathleen Nielson | March 05, 2013 | 6:01 AMO'Connor means to shock us into seeing.
Flannery O'Connor, Peacocks, and Displaced People
Kathleen Nielson | February 26, 2013 | 6:01 AMIn a world where we've accustomed our eyes to evil and lost our desperation for redemption, O'Connor believed she was called to write what she truly saw.
Warning: Flannery O'Connor Ahead
Kathleen Nielson | February 19, 2013 | 6:01 AMChristians should come to know this remarkable fiction writer who saw the world through the lens of her faith.
Anniversary Pictures: Remembering Roe v. Wade
Kathleen Nielson | January 21, 2013 | 4:00 AMWomen and men in life-and-death crises often have open ears to hear the good news.
Women, Come and Grow with Us!
Kathleen Nielson | January 03, 2013 | 4:01 AMWomen, you're not only welcome at this conference; you're needed.
Where Shall We Put This Grief?
Kathleen Nielson | December 17, 2012 | 4:00 AMThe comfort of anger is temporary, lasting only as long as the passion of our pummeling.
5 Aims for Holiday Family Gatherings
Kathleen Nielson | November 20, 2012 | 4:00 AMHoliday family gatherings are right ahead! Are you ready?
The Word and Women
Kathleen Nielson | October 22, 2012 | 2:14 PMUntil we get to see Jesus face to face, we get to live on his Word.
To My Egalitarian Friends
Kathleen Nielson | August 16, 2012 | 3:00 AMThese issues and all their ramifications won't go away, because they are embedded so deeply and personally in us as God's image bearers.