about ashley
Ashley Hales believes storytelling creates imaginative, sympathetic, and redemptive possibilities for people, places and things. This shapes her academic research, her teaching, and editorial and production work.
Ashley holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is Editorial Director for Print at Christianity Today. With her husband, she is the co-founder of The Willowbrae Institute, a new think tank researching the intersection of Christianity and the common good in America . She is a Kirby Laing Centre Academic Fellow and advisor to the Board of Covenant College. Ashley hosts the The Cartographers Podcast and is the author of Finding Holy in the Suburbs, A Spacious Life, and the forthcoming Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount, A Fruitful Life. She and her family live on the Central Coast of California.
For more of her writing, connect on substack, and sign up for the Willowbrae Institute’s newsletter here. Ashley is also sporadically on Instagram or Twitter. If you have questions about writing, podcast consulting, or voiceover narration contact her here. For speaking inquiries, use this form.
