Public Writing
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March 9, 2021
Chaplains and the rise of on-demand spiritual support
The Boston Globe - Globe Magazine
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May 4, 2020
Leaders’ empathy matters in the midst of a pandemic
The Conversation
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November 13, 2018
Everyone knows English majors can’t get jobs. Except the employers who hire them.
The Boston Globe - Globe Magazine
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May 14, 2018
Stop Yelling At Alexa: In The Age Of #MeToo, Digital Assistants Deserve Our Respect
Cognoscenti – WBUR | Boston’s NPR News Station
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April 23, 2016
Boston career changers can find plenty of helping hands
The Boston Globe - Globe Magazine
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October 13, 2015
On Not Working from Home
GradHacker | InsideHigherEd.com
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August 27, 2015
The Myth of Summer Break
GradHacker | InsideHigherEd.com
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June 4, 2015
Coming Out from the Cloister
GradHacker | InsideHigherEd.com
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April 29, 2015
Parenting in Public
GradHacker | InsideHigherEd.com
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Jul 28, 2014
Dear Gordon College, You Do Not Speak For Me
Cognoscenti – WBUR | Boston’s NPR News Station
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Jul 9, 2014
Evangelical Employers Can Discern Without Discriminating
On Faith
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May 4, 2014
Jeff Sharlet’s ‘Radiant Truths’: How Religion Shaped American Literary Journalism
The Daily Beast
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Apr 21, 2014
Boston Marathon Bombings: Making Sense of the Social Media Blitz
Time.com
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Feb 19, 2014
From Modesty to Maxim
OnFaith
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Jan 31, 2014
‘Alone Yet Not Alone’: Inside the Conservative Christian Movie the Oscars Ousted
The Daily Beast (w/David Sessions)
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Jan 28, 2014
Lena Dunham Is The New John Updike — But Not In A Good Way
Cognoscenti – WBUR | Boston’s NPR News Station
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Nov 24, 2013
Can Nadia Bolz-Weber Resurrect Liberal Christianity?
The Daily Beast
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Nov 4, 2013
Jason Harrod: Singing Between Doubt and Belief for 20 Years
Christianity Today
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Sep 17, 2013
The Tolerance Paradox
Cognoscenti - WBUR | Boston’s NPR News Station
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Aug 18, 2013
On a mission to save Godless Massachusetts
The Boston Globe - Globe Magazine
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Jul 5, 2013
Rdio Bridges the Gap Between the Record Collection and the Cloud
Time Magazine - Techland
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Feb 6, 2013
How to Write a Book Without Paper
Time Magazine - Techland
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Feb 6, 2013
Is Irony Suffocating Millennial Emotional Life?
HuffPost Live
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Dec 20, 2012
The Case Against Irony
NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook
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Nov 20, 2012
Sincerity, Not Irony, is Our Age's Ethos
The Atlantic
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Nov 15, 2012
How TV Killed the Republican Party’s Family Values
How TV Killed the Republican Party’s Family Values
The Daily Beast
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Oct 1, 2012
Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure
Religion Dispatches
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Sep 25, 2012
Caspian make a case for post-post-rock with ‘Waking Season’
The Metro - Toronto, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia
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Aug 2, 2012
The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism
Religion Dispatches
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Jul 31, 2012
The High Cost of True Diversity
Episcopal News Service
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Jan 30, 2012
A Bad Rap
The Daily
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Jan 30, 2012
Can You Come To Jesus Without Church
The Wall Street Journal
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Jan 30, 2012
Interview on Issues, Etc.
We discussed my recent WSJ op-ed.
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Jan 12, 2012
Lame Poetry, False Dichotomies, and Bad Theology
Patrol
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Oct 17, 2011
The Suppression of Sin in Evangelical Abolitionism: The Wilberforce Problem
Religion Dispatches
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Oct 17, 2011
Should Churches Be Allowed to Meet in Public Schools?
Sojourners - God’s Politics Blog
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Oct 17, 2011
The young and the wasted?
The Washington Post - On Faith
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Jan 19, 2011
Whose College
Killing the Buddha
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Oct 7, 2010
The Right Mix of Religion and Politics
The Right Mix of Religion and Politics
Patheos.com
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Oct 7, 2010
Books from Brian McLaren, Paul Johnson and others
The Star-Ledger
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Jul 28, 2010
Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism
Religion Dispatches
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Jun 16, 2010
Defenders of the Faith
On Being (Speaking of Faith Observed)
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Apr 11, 2010
Five Questions Your Christian Pacifist Friends are Tired of Answering
Burnside Writers’ Collective
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Apr 11, 2010
A Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut
Burnside Writers’ Collective
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Apr 11, 2010
Building a Peace Beyond Understanding
Christianity Today
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Apr 11, 2010
Winning Not Just Hearts but Minds
Wall Street Journal
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Apr 1, 2007
The Story of a Lost Boy's Story
Books and Culture