Selected Articles, Poetry, Books, Plays, and Films by Mr. Jones


"Sourdoughs: A Triology of Short Films" (DVD), Canon Press, 2006

"Moderns Forever Be Holden: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye," Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, July/August 2006



University Cafe (Play): Finalist for the 2005 Theatre Publicus Prize for Dramatic Literature


Credenda article, "Just Wood," honored in Best Christian Writing 2004


The Mantra of Jabez
Canon Press


Dutch Color
Canon Press


Angels in the Architecture
Canon Press


Bound Only Once
Canon Press


Review of the movie Moulin Rouge in Books & Culture

Mr JonesDouglas M. Jones, III, M.F.A.

Senior Fellow and Permanent Member of the Board of Trustees, 1994-

Douglas Jones teaches philosophy and literature at New Saint Andrews, and serves as a permanent member of the College’s Board of Trustees and on its Executive Council.

He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho.

Mr. Jones is editor of Canon Press, and serves as a teaching elder at Christ Church. He has taught philosophy at the University of Idaho and Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho.

His scholarship and creative works include "Sourdoughs: A Triology of Short Films," "Moderns Forever Be Holden," in Touchstone magazine, "Reading Trees," a review of Thomas Campanella's *Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm,* in Books and Culture: AChristian Review, September/October 2003. His poetry has appeared in the Valparaiso Poetry Review, California Quarterly, River Oak Review, and Lullwater Review. His "Just Wood" article from the wood issue of Credenda/Agenda was honored by inclusion in the anthology, Best Christian Writing 2004. His short play, "University Cafe," was selected as a finalist for the 2005 Theatre Publicus Prize for Dramatic Literature.

He has also contributed to Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Richness of the Reformed Faith, Repairing the Ruins: The Classical and Christian Challenge to Modern Education, Bound Only Once: The Failure of Open Theism, and he co-authored Angels in the Architecture (with Douglas Wilson). He has written three children’s books, Huguenot Garden, Scottish Seas, and Dutch Color. He is the senior editor of Credenda/Agenda.

He and wife, Paula, have five children and live in Potlatch, Idaho.

Gabriel Jones
Mr. Jones presented a paper at the I.F.E.D., the Instituto di Formazione e Documentazione Evangelica in Padova, Italy, September 2003.

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