Ray Waddle is a writer, editor, and the author of four books. His latest is a comprehensive history of Yale Divinity School, “This Grand Errand”: A Bicentennial History of Yale Divinity School, available from Yale University Press.

His other books are Undistorted God (Abingdon Press, 2014), drawing on his journalistic religious encounters over the years in order to flesh out new angles on contemporary Christian experience; Against the Grain: Unconventional Wisdom from Ecclesiastes (Upper Room, 2005), offering commentary on the strangest book in the Bible; and A Turbulent Peace: The Psalms for Our Time (Upper Room, 2003), which meditates on each of the 150 Psalms.

A writer and editor for more than 40 years, he has a journalism (B.A.) degree from the University of Oklahoma and a religious studies (M.A.) degree from Vanderbilt University.