Jonathan Luxmoore covers church affairs in Europe for The Tablet from Oxford and Warsaw, as well as being a staff commentator for Polish Radio and freelance writer for newspapers and newsagencies in Europe and the US. He studied at the University of Oxford and London School of Economics and Political Science, later working as a defence and international affairs analyst, and has also been a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, a co-founder of Transparency International and a participant in the Belvedere Forum, a bilateral discussion group sponsored by the British and Polish governments. His books include The Vatican and the Red Flag (1999), Rethinking Christendom (2005) and The God of the Gulag (two volumes, 2016).