Jordan Hylden is a graduate student at Duke Divinity School and a candidate for holy orders in the diocese of North Dakota. Although he grew up on a Dakota farm far away from the Duke-Carolina basketball rivalry, he has since been sucked in and now spends too much time poring over Duke statistics. He reads more than is good for him, and particularly recommends Augustine, Dostoyevsky, Bonhoeffer, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, Tom Wolfe, and David Foster Wallace.

A former junior fellow at First Things and a member of the Living Church Foundation, his articles have appeared in First Things, Christianity Today, and other publications. Jordan received his A.B. in government from Harvard College in 2006.