Selected Writings

Selected Essays & Articles

The War on Poor Bodies,” Leaven: A Journal of Christian Ministry Vol 24, No 3 (2016): 121-126.

The Transfiguration of Horace,” Nashville Review, 2019, Porch Prize Winner in Creative Nonfiction

For the Flames to Dance: An Interview with Lindsey Krinks,” The Other Journal, 2022 

Remembering Old Tent City,” The Contributor, 2025

Book Contributions

Keep Watch with Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers, Abingdon Press, 2019

I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites: “The Camps of Saint Cloud Hill,” “Tent City / 2010 Flood,” and “The Tara Cole Memorial Bench,” University of California Press, 2019

We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor, Broadleaf Books, 2025 

Recent Selected Lectures

Robert C. Palmer Lecture on Human Rights, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 2021

Landiss Lecture, Lipscomb University, 2022

House Keys, Not Handcuffs: Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness in TN,” Symposium on Ending Homelessness Keynote, Memphis, 2022

“Accompaniment,” Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership Keynote, Nashville, 2025