R. Jared Staudt, PhD serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90 and as an instructor for the lay division
of St. John Vianney Seminary. He earned his BA and MA in Catholic Studies at the University of St.
Thomas in St. Paul, MN and his PhD in Systematic Theology from Ave Maria University in Florida. Staudt
served previously as Associate Superintendent for the Archdiocese of Denver, a professor at the
Augustine Institute and University of Mary, director of religious education in two parishes, and co-editor
of the theological journal Nova et Vetera. He is author of How the Eucharist Can Save Civilization (TAN),
The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology (Emmaus Academic) and Restoring Humanity: Essays on the Evangelization of Culture (Divine Providence Press). He is editor of Renewing
Catholic Schools: How to Regain a Catholic Vision in a Secular Age (Catholic Education Press) and The
University and the Church: Don J. Briel’s Essays on Education (Cluny Media). He writes a syndicated
column entitled “The Catholic Culturalist.” He and his wife Anne have six children and he is a
Benedictine oblate.