Dr. Melanie Springer Mock is a journalism professor at George Fox University, an evangelical Quaker institution in Oregon. Her disciplinary work focuses on Christian popular culture and gender. Melanie is the author or co-author of five books, including most recently “Worthy: Finding Yourself in a World Expecting Someone Else” (Herald Press, 2018), with essays and reviews published in The Nation, Christianity Today, Christian Feminism Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Mennonite World Review, among other places.