BRIAN PATRICK MITCHELL holds a PhD in theology from the University of Winchester (UK) and is a protodeacon of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, a former Washington bureau chief of Investor's Business Daily, a former cabinet-level speechwriter, and the author of seven books on politics and religion, including Eight Ways to Run the Country, which has been used to teach politics at Yale and elsewhere, and Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female, forthcoming in 2021 from Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock.