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In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer • Episode 313 • Melanie Springer Mock

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Professor and Author Melanie Springer Mock, exploring the themes of her book, Finding Our Way Forward: When the Children We Love Become Adults.


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Melanie Springer Mock is professor of English at George Fox University, an evangelical Friends institution in Newberg, Oregon, where she primarily teaches first-year writing, memoir, and journalism courses. She is author or coauthor of six books, including Worthy: Finding Yourself in a World Expecting Someone Else (Herald Press, 2018). Her essays and reviews have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Christian Feminism Today, Chronicle of Higher Education, Runner’s World, and Inside Higher Education, among other places, and she is a regular reviewer for Anabaptist World, Red Letter Christians, and Christians for Social Action.

She and her husband live in Dundee, Oregon, and have two young adult sons. She is a stepmom to two adults, and “Nani” to two grandsons. In her free time, Melanie enjoys running, swimming, biking, knitting, and watching reality television.