Our Mission: The everyman is not the average man. He is the man who seeks the truth, sacrifices for those he loves, and engages with his world. He is honest and does not pretend to be something more or less than he is. True to its name, this journal aims to provide relevant, reasonable, and above all readable commentary for the everyman. This means that we oppose sophistry and condescension along with vulgarity and pandering. The everyman deserves nothing less.
Auguste Meyrat
Senior Editor
Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher in the Dallas area. He holds an MA in Humanities and an MEd in Educational Leadership. He is the senior editor of The Everyman and has written essays for The Federalist, The American Thinker, and The American Conservative as well as the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Follow him on Twitter.
Matthew Borders
Senior Editor, Webmaster
Matthew Borders is a husband, father, and works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer. He received a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from Texas A&M. He helps maintain The Everyman, along with writing and editing. Follow him on Twitter or visit his website.
J. Antonio Juarez
Senior Editor
J. Antonio Juarez is a part-time freelance writer, editor, and short-story writer. His works have appeared in The Human Life Review, The Maccabee Society, and The Federalist. He earned a B.A. in Theology from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, where he resides and works at his "day job". Follow him @gnarledcatholic on X, MeWe, Minds, and Truth.
Evan McClanahan
Writer
Evan McClanahan is the pastor of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in downtown Houston, Texas. He and his wife have two children. In addition to cultural, spiritual, economic, and political matters, he is also interested in the occasional football game, scratch cooking, and American folk music. He frequently contributes to The Everyman and is a producer of the Theology on Air podcast.
G. W. Thielman
Writer
G. W. Thielman is currently employed as a patent attorney and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His education includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering. His opinions do not represent those of his employers or colleagues past or present.
Bradley Shumaker
Associate Editor
Bradley W. Shumaker (M.A. Boston University) is an attorney and U.S. Army Special Operations veteran. His other writings have appeared in the National Catholic Register and the Catholic Post.
Vincent Weaver
Writer
Vincent Weaver is a chastity education presenter for Family Honor. He has been a speaker at ministry retreats and various national conferences, including Ignited by Truth, the American Academy of Fertility Care Practitioners, and National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers. Vincent has written for Family Foundations Magazine and is an occasional featured blogger with The National Catholic Register. Vincent is Department Chair – Management & Supply Chain Management at Greenville Technical College.
Caroline Furlong
Writer
Caroline Furlong is a science fiction/fantasy writer living in Virginia, USA. Her novelette Halcyon and short story "Death's Shadow" have appeared in Cirsova Magazine in 2019 and 2020. She has also been published in anthologies such as Unbound 3: Goodbye, Earth, and the Planetary Anthology: Luna and Uranus respectively, as well as some poetry appearing in Dragon Soul Press’ Organic Ink, Vol. 2. For more information and a complete list of her works, follow her at www.carolinefurlong.wordpress.com.
Katya Sedgwick
Writer
Katya Rapoport Sedgwick is a mom and a grad school dropout living in San Francisco Bay Area. You can also find her on The Federalist, AreoMag, Legal Insurrection, and on Twitter at @KatyaSedgwick.
Peter Merkl
Contributor
Peter Merkl’s articles have appeared in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Abilene Reporter-News, and the Beaumont Enterprise. He blogs at pmerkl.co.
Michael Morris
Writer
Mike is a husband and dad from Denton, Texas. His essays have appeared in the Federalist, Aleteia, the Libertarian Catholic, and FEE. He can be followed on Twitter @laffyjaphy.
Colby R. Anderson
Writer
Colby R. Anderson is a part-time writer and full-time delivery driver. He is a husband and father from rural Tennessee and holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is a content creator on YouTube at Hidebound Convivium and his writings can be found at his Substack Hidebound Press.
Stephen W. Aunan
Writer
Steven W. Aunan is a conservative author, editor, publisher, and professional webmaster whose 32 years in a public sector labor union has given him a front line view of the California Culture Wars.
Ben Christianson
Writer
Ben Christenson writes from Fairfax, VA with his family and 4 dogs.
Johanna Harmonia
Writer
Johanna has a B.A. from Harvard College. She writes under the pseudonym Johanna Harmonia, named after the protagonist of her novel, The New Maestro.
David Breitenbeck
Writer
David Breitenbeck is a professional writer, a Catholic traditionalist, and fiction enthusiast. He is the author of several books, including The Ten Commandments of Murder and The Wisdom of Walt Disney. In addition to his books and his blog – Serpent’s Den [link: https://serpentshouse.com/] – his work can currently be found at The Federalist, The Everyman, Catholic Match, and Aleteia.
Laura Baxter
Writer
Laura is an attorney and teaches political science at her local university. She blogs at https://stirfrylaura.wordpress.com.
Josh Herring
Writer
Joshua Herring teaches humanities at Thales Academy and is a doctoral student in Faulkner University’s Great Books program. He loves writing at the intersection of history, literature and theology, and seeing how those intersections contribute to the complexities of human life. His work appears at Public Discourse, The Federalist, The Imaginative Conservative, Think Christian, and The Everyman.
Julien Meyrat
Writer
Julien Meyrat, AiA is an architect in Dallas. He has contributed articles to Texas Architect, Columns Magazine, New Geography and the Urbanophile.
Grace Perry
Writer
Grace Perry is a student at East Texas Baptist University. She is majoring in English, minoring in Religion, and currently working on her honors thesis discussing the intersection of faith, fantasy, and reality in the fiction of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Grace’s work has been published in The Beacon and on The Everyman.
Martin Friedenthal
Writer
Martin Friedenthal is a student at The University of Texas at Dallas, studying History with a minor in Political Science. His interests include philosophy, religion, and early American colonial life. He also enjoys collecting witty quotes from his favorite books and articles and plans on going to law school or possibly doing a career in journalism.
Sheldon Dance
Writer
S.A. Dance is a teacher and writing in Northern California. His writing has appeared in The American Conservative, Quillette, The Federalist, and Christ and Pop Culture.
Jeff Held
Writer
Jeff Held is an assistant dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at Concordia University Irvine, conductor of the Concordia Wind Orchestra, which performed in Paris, Normandy, and the Netherlands to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
John Leondike
Writer
John Leondike graduated from The Colony High School and is now attending college at Texas A&M University. He is majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
David Weinberger
Writer
David formerly worked at a public policy institution and is currently a freelance writer. In his free time, he enjoys working out, reading nerdy subjects, cheering on Roger Federer, and playing “would you rather.” Follow him on Twitter @DWeinberger03.
Cameron Wilkinson
Writer
Cameron Wilkinson is a graduate from the University of North Texas with a B.A. in English Literature.