Ruth Jeanette Hardage was a freelance author and poet, with her best work produced in the later years of her life. Her chef d’oeuvre was a 2008 biography of famous Presbyterian missionary Mary Slessor. She published two other books of poetry and Christian devotions, as well as various articles, poems, and anecdotes in Christianity Today, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, and the Journal of Medical Biography, among other publications. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was a prolific book reviewer for Christian Library Journal, and she served as Book Review Editor from 1999-2001 for the now-defunct magazine Christianity and the Arts.

We invite you to explore her works of authorship on this site. As she noted in her email signature block for many years, these were all produced soli deo gloria, only for the glory of God.