C. Christopher Smith is Senior Editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is the co-author of Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus (InterVarsity Press, 2014) and author of Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish (InterVarsity Press, 2016) and How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019).