Publications
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Abiding in Amen: Prayer in a Secular Age (Fortress Press, 2025)
Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens: Being over Becoming (Fortress, 2024)
Delighted: What Teenagers Are Teaching The Church About Joy with Kenda Creasy Dean, Justin Forbes, and Abigail Visco Rusert. (Eerdmans, 2020) https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7780/delighted.aspx
Joy: A Guide For Youth Ministry (contributor) edited by David F. White and Sarah F. Farmer (Wesley's Foundery Books, 2020).
Embodying Youth: Exploring Disability and Youth Ministry edited by Wesley W. Ellis and Michael D. Langford (Routledge, 2020) https://www.routledge.com/Embodying-Youth-Exploring-Youth-Ministry-and-Disability/Ellis/p/book/9780367438043
Articles:
- “From Whac-A-Mole to Witness.” Flourish: A Journal of Progressive Ministry, 2025, no. 1, pp. 76–87.
- “Book Review Church in Color: Youth Ministry, Race, and the Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. by Montague R. Williams,” Flourish: A Journal of Progressive Ministry, 2025, no. 1, pp. 106-108
- "The Challenges of 'Innovation'"–– a faithful conversation with Kenda Creasy Dean and Andrew Root. Presbyterian Outlook, April 30th, 2024.
- "Youth and Prayer in a Secular Age" in Journal of Youth and Theology (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/24055093-bja10065
- Stop Trying to Pray: Prayer as Resonance in a Secular Age Faith+Lead January 18, 2023.
- Book Review: Wrestling with Rest: Inviting Youth to Discover the Gift of Sabbath by Nathan T. Stucky. Theology Today, 79(4), 461–462. 2022.
- "The Locus Adventus: An Eschatological Anthropology" in Journal of Youth Ministry, 2021, Vol 19, Issue 1, p39-67.
- "Diagnosing Adolescence: From Curing Adolescents to Caring for Young People" in Journal of Disability & Religion, (2019) DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2018.1521764
- "Disruptive Youth: Toward an Ethnographic Turn in Youth Ministry" with Erin Raffety in Ecclesial Practices 4, no.1 (2017): 5-24.
- "Human Beings and Human Becomings" in Journal of Youth and Theology 14, no.2 (2015): 119-137.
- "God Was With The Child: Towards a Childist Hermeneutic for the Interpretation of Scripture" in Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology 2, no.1 (2016): 108-122.
