I mostly write about theology and culture. My essays, reviews, and poems have been published in various places in print and online—some of them are available below.
FEATURED WRITING
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On Baby Keem’s Ca$ino and remembering graciously. Published in Mockingbird, 2026.
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A review of Charles Marsh’s Evangelical Anxiety. Published in Mere Orthodoxy, 2022.
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A poem. Published in Ekstasis, 2021.
My posts below are excerpts from a few different kinds of writing: articles, papers, poems, sermons, and so on. If the writing has been published, I’ve included a link to the full piece at the bottom of the post. If for any reason there is an excerpt from a paper or sermon or whatever and you would like to read the whole thing, just let me know!
I Don’t Blame You, Mama
Most of us get to do this in private. Baby Keem is doing it in public.
Seminary Anxiety
Every pastor we meet asks us if we are sure about this. We’re not, and they’re not either. No one seems very sure about anything anymore.
Providence Haunts
Providence haunts. It lingers in our literature and poetry. When we look back, it stalks our very lives. However, the pressures at work in our imaginations, social and personal, will continue make it difficult to identify the hand of God. Easy articulations of meaning and purpose will keep slipping away, lost in this secular and scientific age. But providence persists in stubborn and perplexing ways.