William Merriman, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About William Merriman

William Merriman holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Sewanee: The University of the South where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and wrote an honors Thesis on Chaucer, Aquinas, and Augustine titled "Sentence Without Solaas; Sentence Without Grace; Signs Without Signifiers in The Physician’s Tale.” He is now pursuing a Master of Arts in Theological Studies with a focus on Philosophy and Apologetics from Asbury Theological Seminary and works at Christ Church Memphis as Assistant Pastor to Young Adults and Coordinator of their center for lay education.

Through the Wardrobe: An Invitation to the World of Imaginative Apologetics

By William Merriman|2026-09-09T09:39:24-05:00September 8th, 2026|Categories: Apologetics, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Imagination, Moral Imagination, Timeless Essays|

The apologist should appeal not only to one’s reason and intellect but also to one’s imagination, wooing the unbeliever—or a believer who has only granted intellectual consent rather than full-heart surrender—to Christ. In answer to the question “Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about [...]

“Consecration Day”

By William Merriman|2026-09-01T13:19:08-05:00August 30th, 2026|Categories: Evil, Fiction, Human life|

The door slammed shut. The doors could close themselves with a button, but she slammed it shut anyway. She walked around to the driver's side of the door. The boy sat in the backseat with his seatbelt so tight that he had to squirm his belly to loosen it up as he slobbered on a [...]