Editors

Editor-in-Chief: Jeff Munroe studied journalism at Michigan State University and then received a Master of Divinity degree from Western Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America and served Young Life in a variety of roles for three decades in West Michigan and Europe. He also served as Executive Vice President of Western Theological Seminary, is the author of Reading Buechner and Telling Stories in the Dark, and wrote the first Reformed Journal blog, when it was “The Twelve” for Perspectives Journal in 2011. He has been editor of the RJ since 2020.

Blog Editor: Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell is a recently retired minister of the Reformed Church in America. He has been the convener of the Reformed Journal’s daily blog since its inception in 2011. He and his wife, Sophie, reside in Des Moines, Iowa.

Poetry Editor: Hannah Faith Notess is a poet and software product manager. She’s previously served as poetry editor for Indiana Review and The Other Journal, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. Her first book of poems, The Multitude, won the Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She lives with her family in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she co-runs a poetry reading series, Yellow Chair Poetry, in her house.

Review Editor: Kathryn Schoon-Tanis holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education and works in marketing while wrangling two daughters and an artist husband.

Managing Editor: Phil Tanis served as a church communicator for a quarter century, for both the Reformed Church in America and World Communion of Reformed Churches. He is currently the director of Hope College’s Van Raalte Institute.