Holly Hansen is a freelance writer who writes on faith, culture, politics, and policy, and is a contributing writer for the Houston Courant and Big Jolly Times. Her former column, “All in Perspective,” was regularly published in the Hill Country News, Georgetown Advocate, and Jarrell-Star Ledger.

“If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never write anything that can be read.”  -Thomas Merton