Abigail Favale

Special guest

Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is a writer, professor, and speaker. She is formerly Dean of the College of Humanities at George Fox University, where she also directed and taught in the William Penn Honors Program, a Great Books curriculum.

Abigail's essays and short stories have appeared in print and online for publications such as First Things, The Atlantic, Church Life Journal, and Potomac Review. She has written regularly for Dappled Things, a Catholic literary magazine, and was awarded their J.F. Powers Prize for short fiction in 2017.

A cradle evangelical, Abigail was received into the Catholic Church in 2014, and her conversion memoir, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion, traces her journey from postmodern feminism to Roman Catholicism. Her newest book, The Genesis of Gender, will be released on May 1, 2022 by Ignatius Press.

Abigail Favale has been a guest on 1 episode.