Selected Writings
Books
Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets, Brazos Press, 2021
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, winner of Best Article from the International Network of Street Papers in 2026
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
Forthcoming essay in Fightin’ to Get free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City, Vanderbilt University Press, 2027
Recent Op-eds
“Amid Nashville’s affordable housing crisis, a hungering for home,” The Tennessean, 2018
“Public land swaps with wealthy developers benefit rich more than needy,” The Tennessean, 2018
“Nashville’s overflow shelter needs to take trauma seriously,” The Tennessean, 2019
“Taking away Jefferson St. Bridge encampment rips foundation from Nashville's most vulnerable,” The Tennessean, 2021
“Nashville has a housing crisis. Shutting down homeless encampments worsens it,” The Tennessean, 2025
“Nashville’s budget could be a turning point for homelessness,” The Tennessean, 2026
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