Essays and Reviews

• Regular Contributor to Covenant Blog, a weblog of The Living Church.

• “The Disintegration Is the Illness: What Hope Is There For Those Suffering from Depression?” Comment Magazine, November 30, 2023. https://comment.org/the-disintegration-is-the-illness/

  “Advent with the Beasts” The Living Church. November 26, 2023, p. 38. https://livingchurch.org/2023/10/30/advent-with-the-beasts/

• “Assisted Suicide & the Cure of Souls” Commonweal Magazine. Volume 150, Issue 3, March 2023, pp. 34-7. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dying-MAiD-assisted-suicide-christian-theology

• “Lenten and Lent-Adjacent” The Living Church. February 19, 2023, pp. 31-2.

• “The Meaning of Manna” Faith Today Magazine. January/February 2023, pp. 36-7. https://www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2023-Jan-Feb/Browse-the-latest-issue

• “A Northern Nativity” The Living Church. December 25, 2022, p. 12-13. https://covenant.livingchurch.org/2022/12/29/a-northern-nativity/ *Cover story in print.
  

• “The Hollowness of the Mainline, Now and Then” Mere Orthodoxy. November 29, 2022. https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-hollowness-of-the-mainline-now-and-then/

• “Memento Mori: Death in the West through the Ages” Mere Orthodoxy. September 8, 2022.

• “Parishes Need Pastor-Readers” Front Porch Republic. June 24, 2022.

• “Easter Reunions" The Anglican Planet. Easter 2022. p. 3.

• “Focus on COVID treatment, not restrictions” The Telegraph-Journal. January 11, 2022.

• “The speed-limitification of our COVID-19 emergency measures has begun”. The Line. November 11, 2021.

• “Coping with Inherited Guilt” The Anglican Planet. Michaelmas 2021: Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 10.

• “The Metaphysical Stalemate Behind Political Divisions” Mere Orthodoxy. July 21, 2021.

• “Diverse Bishops Honored at Wycliffe College Event” The Living Church. June 13, 2021, pp. 21-2.

• “Fleeing Judgement (and Grace)” Mockingbird.com. May 26, 2021.

• “When Miracles Become Idols” The Living Church. May 2, 2021, pp. 16-17.

• “A Lesson from scripture for the Gracelife protestors” The Line. April 22, 2021.

• “PhDs in Canada: University, Seminary, or Both?” Center for Pastor Theologians Weblog. March 13, 2021.

• “Pastors are not supposed to be good people” Faith Today Magazine. January/February 2021, pp. 35-6.

• “Ministry in a Place of Poverty” Front Porch Republic. December 25, 2020.

• “Your Child is Not Your Go-Go Gadget” Convivium Magazine. December 9, 2020.

• “Coney Barrett’s Appointment is Controversial. Her Faith Should Not Be.” The Line. October 27, 2020.

• “Places to Rest” Broadview Magazine. September, 2020.

• “Trying to find the meaning of death during the pandemic” The Toronto Star. May 13, 2020.

• Review of two Tomie dePaola books, Queen Esther and Brother Francis of Assisi. The Living Church. May 3, 2020: p. 31.

• “Christ in Our Darkness” Center for Pastor Theologians Weblog. April 9, 2020.

• “Prayer is Difficult Work” Center for Pastor Theologians Weblog. March 30, 2020.

• “’Anglicans in Canada are in Exile’” Anglican Journal. Vol 146, No. 1, January 2020: p. 20.

• Review of four Christmas-themed books for children. The Living Church. December 22, 2019: p. 15

• “Places We’ve Never Been” Convivium Magazine. December 17, 2019.

• “Why Do People Keep Pastors at Arm’s Length?” ChristianityToday.com CTPastors. October 7, 2019.

• “When does welcoming become ‘sheep stealing?’” Episcopal Journal. Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2019: p. 2.

• “Head for the East Coast, Young City Dwellers. You Won’t Regret It” Huffington Post Canada. December 17, 2018.

• “A Place for Death in the Life of the Church” ChristianityToday.com CTPastors. November 8, 2018.

• Review of Stephen B. Chapman. 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture: A Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 2016. The Living Church. June 3, 2018: p. 35.

• Review of David Bentley Hart. The Dream-Child’s Progress & Other Essays. Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2017. The Living Church. May 6, 2018: p. 30.

• “How the Psalms Made Me Human” RELEVANTmagazine.com. March 5, 2018.

  • Republished as “How the Psalms Made Me Feel Human Again” RELEVANTmagazine.com. June 10, 2021.

• “Vulgarity, Anguish, and Truth.” Mockingbird.com February 8, 2018.

• “Reformation 500: The Reformation(s): The Anglican Perspective(s).” Orthodoxy in Dialogue. October 12th, 2017.

• Contributor to The New Brunswick Anglican, a section of The Anglican Journal. May 2017: p. 14; September 2017: p. 20; September 2018: p. 16; January 2020: p. 15, April 2021: p. 16.

• “Feeding God together: An ecumenism of mercy” Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue – IARCCUM.org. January 18th, 2017.

• Review of Martin Westerholm; Stephen Westerholm. Reading Sacred Scripture: Voices from the History of Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 2016. The Living Church. November 27th, 2016: p. 24.

Scholarship

• “Christina Rossetti and the Virtue of Hope” Center for Pastor Theologians Journal. Volume 10, Issue 1: May 2023: pp. 1-12.

• “God and the Goodness of Death: A Theological Minority Report”
  Open Theology. Volume 8, Issue 1. January 2022: pp 276-83.

• “The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Two Theological Readings in the Church of England.”
  Horizons in Biblical Theology. Volume 43, Issue 2. August, 2021: pp. 146-65

• “St. Augustine and the Scriptural Vision of Married Love.”
  Canadian-American Theological Review. Volume 8, Issue 2. December, 2019: pp. 19-43

• “Making the Problem of Evil Less Problematic: Theological Development in the Work of Annie Dillard.”
  Heythrop Journal. Volume 59, Issue 1, January, 2018: pp. 45-55. *Top downloaded article for 2017-18 in The Heythrop Journal

Literary Writing

• “The Tides” Fathom Magazine. Issue 55: Kindness, August 1, 2023. https://www.fathommag.com/stories/the-tides

• “The Fly” Ekstasis Magazine. Spring Collection, 2023. https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2023/the-fly

• “The Fog” The Reformed Journal. March 7, 2023. https://reformedjournal.com/the-fog/

• “The Stones” The Reformed Journal. March 7, 2023. https://reformedjournal.com/the-stones/

• “Picking Strawberries in the Fog” Ekstasis Magazine. Winter Collection, 2023. https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2023/picking-strawberries-in-the-fog

• “After birth, everything is a haze of sound”
  The Antigonish Review. Volume 51, Issues 205-206, Spring/Summer 2021: p. 105.

• “In the hospital harsh light”
  The Antigonish Review. Volume 51, Issues 205-206, Spring/Summer 2021: p. 104.

• “Views from Fidelity” Ekstasis Magazine. April 19, 2021.

• “On Childhood” The Amethyst Review. August 28, 2021.

• “Holy Week”
  The Nashwaak Review. Volume 44/45, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2020/21: p. 159.

• “An Afternoon Run”
  The Nashwaak Review. Volume 44/45, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2020/21: p. 160

• “Storm Surge”
  The Nashwaak Review. Volume 44/45, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2020/21: p. 160.

• “The Beach” The Nashwaak Review. Volume 44/45, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2020/21: p. 161.

• “To Live in Peace”
  Montréal Writes. February 2020

• “Waffles”
  Montréal Writes. February 2020.