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!
Bearing Witness
What you don’t understand or see, the bits of yourself you can’t pull together in a convincing story, are all held together in a single gaze of love.
Of Flesh, Of Spirit
Immanuel himself has descended into this darkness, he has taken on all of our unknowing and questioning, and—can it be?—even our doubts. So the faith and the hope will pass away, but love never ends. Come and join me, let us make our home in this luminous dark.
Like Shadows, Like Dawns
In baptism, we signal our death, with Christ, to the ways of this shadowy world. And we rise again, with Christ, like dawns. Ten thousand little lights breaking forth, icons of that which is most real.
Suffer with Jesus
Like a kind stranger, he comes toward us and takes us by the hand and points and says, “Look, Look.” And he peels back the curtains of death and pain and beyond all that gray he shows us a flame that burns with the brightness of ten thousand stars. It is the flame of God’s love.
Advent’s Darkening
Christ takes these questions upon himself, bears them in his own body, and offers them in his one sacrifice for the life of the world. Advent’s true mystery is that Christ is the one who accompanies us even as he is the one whom we are waiting for.